MIT Press announces new initiative to increase the reach of
Consistent with its mission and longstanding dedication to extend entry to scholarship, the MIT Press is happy to announce shift+OPEN. This new initiative is designed to flip present subscription-based journals to a diamond open entry publishing mannequin. Shift+OPEN is generously supported by the Arcadia Fund.
The MIT Press welcomes submissions for English-language journals in any discipline and from any a part of the world. Meant for present titles, shift+OPEN will cowl the bills of transitioning a journal to open entry mannequin for a three-year time period, present the press’s full suite of publishing companies, and help the event of a sustainable funding mannequin for the longer term. The deadline for purposes is March 31.
“Shift+OPEN seeks to catalyze wanted change in journals publishing, introduce authors to new readerships, and improve the attain of significant scholarship that has beforehand been locked behind paywalls,” says Nick Lindsay, director of journals and open entry on the MIT Press. “Due to the beneficiant help of the Arcadia Fund, we’re delighted to supply this chance to journals worldwide.”
The MIT Press has a protracted historical past of being at the vanguard of open entry journal publishing. From opening entry to Computational Linguistics in 2010 to publishing overlay journal Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 in 2020, the press has embraced the necessity to broaden the dissemination of its journals whereas creating new fashions that work for everybody, together with authors, editors, societies, and universities.
Along side the initiative, the MIT Press will host a webinar entitled “Going Open Entry: An editorial perspective” onMonday, March 6 at 12:00 p.m. EST. Be part of Vincent Larivière, incoming editor-in-chief of Quantitative Science Research, Ludo Waltman, outgoing editor-in-chief of Quantitative Science Research, and Nick Lindsay to discover the transition of the historically revealed Journal of Informetrics to an open entry mannequin. The occasion is free and open to the general public. Register here.