MIT Press published its first open-access book in 1995, but leaders of the university press are still trying to figure out the best way to make more scholarly books available to the public for free.

January 19, 2020 (Cambridge, MA)—The MIT Press Open Monograph Model: Direct to Open, a new white paper published by Chain Bridge Group and the MIT Press, describes a collective model for supporting ...

The University of North Carolina Press is leading an experiment to significantly lower the cost of producing scholarly books -- an important step toward a sustainable open-access publishing model for ...

This press uses Open Monograph Press 3.3.0.13, which is open source press management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU ...

November 30, 2021 (Cambridge, MA)—The MIT Press today announced that it has reached the fifty percent threshold for participation in the Direct to Open (D2O) initiative, an innovative sustainable ...

Cambridge University Press is trialling a pilot Open Access scheme that it said will "turn conventional publishing models on their head" by making academic monographs that sell the most copies ...

A survey shows the monograph is still central for shaping and sharing scholarship in the humanities. Let’s now make them open access A decade ago, in my first year as lecturer in a humanities ...