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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I hope this post is OK to share on GOAL. I think you’ll be interested in three new open access initiatives from the MIT Press over the last month:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This open collection of architecture and urban studies books is part of the Mellon- and NEH-funded
Humanities Open Book Program: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-new-open-access-collection-34-classic-architecture-and-urban-studies-titles">
https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-new-open-access-collection-34-classic-architecture-and-urban-studies-titles</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For years, the MIT Press has fielded requests for ebook editions of classic, out-of-print works, like the two volumes of
<a href="http://bit.ly/MITPStaircase" target="_blank"><em><b><i><font color="blue" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;font-weight:bold">The Staircase</span></font></i></b></em></a> by John Templer,
<a href="http://bit.ly/MITPBattista" target="_blank"><em><b><i><font color="blue" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;font-weight:bold">On Leon Battista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories</span></font></i></b></em></a>
by Mark Jarzombek, <a href="http://bit.ly/MITPPalladian" target="_blank"><em><b><i><font color="blue" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;font-weight:bold">Possible Palladian Villas: (Plus a Few Instructively Impossible
Ones)</span></font></i></b></em></a> by George L. Hersey and Richard Freedman, and
<a href="http://bit.ly/MITPMiddle" target="_blank"><em><b><i><font color="blue" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;font-weight:bold">Making a Middle Landscape</span></font></i></b></em></a> by Peter G. Rowe. Many of these
foundational texts were published before the advent of ebooks and remained undigitized because of complex design requirements and the prohibitive cost of image permissions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Now, with funding from the Mellon Foundation and the efforts of an open-access-savvy digitization team, the MIT Press was able to not only secure image permissions, but
also to solicit fresh prefaces that bring new insights to bear on many of these classic texts. Many of the titles will also be made available on the open access platform PubPub where readers will be able to interact with and annotate the works with contemporary
context and related readings.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MIT Open Publishing Services – which will offer their professional editorial, design, marketing
support for open access projects: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-mit-open-publishing-services">https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-mit-open-publishing-services</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">MIT Open Publishing Services (MITops), working with its partner the
<a href="https://www.knowledgefutures.org/" target="_blank">Knowledge Futures Group</a>, provides a portfolio of services to mission-aligned partners, including peer review support and editorial development; professional copy editing and design; marketing and
publicity; and hosting on the <a href="https://www.pubpub.org/" target="_blank">
PubPub</a> open source platform. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MIT Direct 2 Open – a new OA model that will make monographs available going forward:
<a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-direct-open">https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-launches-direct-open</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></li></ol>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals
and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">D2O gives institutions the opportunity to harness collective action to support access to knowledge. Beginning in 2022, all new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited
collections will be openly available on the <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books" target="_blank">
MIT Press Direct eBook platform</a>. Instead of purchasing a title once for a single collection, libraries now have the opportunity to fund them
<strong><b><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">one time for the world</span></font></b></strong> through participant fees. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full disclosure – I am involved in the promotion of the first of these items – the book collection. The rest is of interest to me because I follow
open access publishing closely as a person who worked in university press publishing and libraries for 20 years. It was recommended to me that I share the collection on GOAL, the rest is just because I think you’ll be interested in how MIT Press is tackling
OA from all sides. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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