Direct To Open | ebooks@cambridge

The University of Cambridge continues to support MIT Press’s Direct To Open (D2O) for 2025. Cambridge University Libraries originally signed up for the scheme in 2022 and this was renewed for a further 12 months at the end of 2024. Our support, along with over 300 other participating libraries is enabling MIT to publish all 80 books earmarked for this model as Open Access over the coming year.

The 2025 titles will begin publishing in February and a title list of all D2O published books including the Spring/Summer 2025 is now available.

As a participating institution we continue to have access to @ 2,300 ebooks from the MIT Press backlist for the period of the subscription in titles ranging across all disciplines. Records for the backlist collection as well as for all the Open Access titles can be searched for in iDiscover. Newly published title records are added regularly.

The publisher states; “Launched in 2021, D2O is an innovative sustainable framework for open access monographs that shifts publishing from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. D2O’s particular advantage is that it enables [MIT] to provide open access to its entire list of scholarly books at scale, embargo-free, during each funding cycle….all MIT Press monograph authors have the opportunity for their work to be published open access with equal support to traditionally underserved and underfunded disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.”

Key statistics

321 – number of open access books funded through D2O to date
659,453 – total # of times published D2O books have been read on the MIT Press platform
12.74% / 54.78% / 32.48% – % of humanities/social sciences/STEM in D2O

Recently published D2O titles include;