Direct to Open (D2O)
Everyone Deserves Access to Scholarship. D2O makes it possible.
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D2O is the MIT Press’s innovative framework for new release monographs that creates a collaborative, library-supported open access model.
Over the past three years, many organizations have participated in MITP’s D2O program: the Big Ten Academic Alliance, Johns Hopkins University Libraries, University of Toronto Libraries, MIT Libraries, and more. Ask us how you can join to support open and equitable access.
Direct to Open harnesses collective action to support open access to excellent scholarship.
Duke University Press is proud to partner with the MIT Press to:
- Bring open access to 20 new Duke University Press scholarly monographs annually via recurring participation fees.
- Provide participating libraries with term access to 250 backlist/archival titles which will otherwise remain gated. Participating libraries will receive access even if the model is not successful.
- Cover partial direct costs for the publication of high-quality works that are also available for print purchase.
Announcement for 2026 Direct to Open collection (March 5, 2026)
For 2026, we did not meet our sustainability goal to open the 11 Spring 2026 season titles identified for this collection. We have extended our deadline to April 30, 2026. If we meet our goal by this date, we will open the 9 Fall 2026 season titles listed below.
9 Frontlist titles for Fall/Winter 2026 include the following:
- Forms of Blackness by Cécile Bishop
- Love in Time of Zika by Paige Patchin
- The Imperial Entanglements of Policing by Julian & Stu Go
- Afroindiginezation by Catherine John
- Forms of Worship by Ayodeji Ogunnaike
- Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence by Erin & Lynn Stephen Beck
- In a Field of Static by James Bliss
- Upright Farmer by Jessie Luna
- From Hate to Hallows by Todne Thomas
Closed Spring 2026 season titles – now only available to Direct to Open collection subscribers:
- The Business of Racism by Ian Carrillo
- Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies by Aurora Santiago-Ortiz
- Everyday Erotics by Denise Tse-Shang Tang
- Hidden Empire of Finance by Michael Goldman
- Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression by Jacob Engelberg
- Breaking the World by Justin Mann
- Riding into History by Amy Nathan
- Promises Beyond Memory by Vikki Bell
- Medicines That Feed Us by Stacey Langwick
- Clowns in the Burying Ground by Christopher Coffman
- Curating Deviance by Marc Francis
For details on how your institution might participate in or support Direct to Open, please visit mitpress.mit.edu/D2O or contact the MIT Press library relations team at mitp-library-relations@mit.edu.