Unanticipated Benefits of OA and the Future of D2O

The Authority File

In the final episode of this four-part series, Janaki Srinivasan of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Oxford Internet Institute and Amy Harris of MIT Press explore the unanticipated benefits of open monographs and the future of MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) program. First, Amy chats about how open access influences translation and licensing decisions. She cites MIT Press’s Deep Learning, a 2016 computer science title that drove interest in large part due to its preprinted chapters and open peer review, spurring more than a dozen translation licenses with publishers. Next, Amy and Janaki highlight the ways students and teaching faculty interact with open materials; the ease of clicking a link creates fewer barriers for tech-savvy researchers. Last, Amy previews D2O’s 2025 impact report and shares the unique ways D2O authors’ research flourishes outside of academia.

Read the latest impact report from MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O).

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