Editing MIT Press

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| headquarters = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
| distribution = Penguin Random House Publishing Services
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[[File:ASA conference 2008 - 27.JPG|thumb|Display of publications at conference booth in 2008]]
[[File:SICP cover.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs]]'' has been a steady best-seller, as a widely-used introduction to [[computer science]].]]
The '''MIT Press''' is the [[university press]] of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT), a private research university in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. The MIT Press publishes a number of [[Academic journal|academic journals]] and has been a pioneer in the [[Open Access movement]] in [[academic publishing]]. 

== History ==
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MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT published a lecture series entitled ''Problems of Atomic Dynamics'' given by the visiting German physicist and later [[Nobel Prize]] winner, [[Max Born]]. In 1932, MIT's publishing operations were first formally instituted by the creation of an [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] called '''Technology Press'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->.<ref name="MITP-50"/>{{rp|13}} This imprint was founded by [[James R. Killian, Jr.]], at the time editor of MIT's alumni magazine and later to become MIT president. Technology Press published eight titles independently, then in 1937 entered into an arrangement with [[John Wiley & Sons]] in which Wiley took over marketing and editorial responsibilities.<ref name="MITP-50"/>{{rp|13}} 

In 1961, the [[centennial]] of MIT's founding charter, the publisher was renamed as "The MIT Press".<ref name="MITP-50"/>{{rp|14}}
In 1962 the association with Wiley came to an end after a further 125 titles had been published. The Press has since functioned as an independent publishing house.<ref name="MIT Press History 2012">{{cite web|title=History |website=The MIT Press|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/about/history|access-date=2012-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020085241/http://mitpress.mit.edu/about/history|archive-date=2012-10-20}}</ref>

A European marketing office was opened in 1969, and a Journals division was added in 1972. In the late 1970s, responding to changing economic conditions, the publisher narrowed the focus of their catalog to a few key areas, initially architecture, computer science and artificial intelligence, economics, and cognitive science.<ref name="MIT Press History 2012"/> 

Since then, the MIT Press has broadened the scope of its publishing activities to encompass new titles in the humanities, while retaining its strengths in science and technology. The Press has been a pioneer in the [[Open Access]] publishing movement, which seeks to offer unimpeded access to fresh academic research to the entire world.

In January 2010, MIT Press published its 9000th title,<ref name="MIT Press History 2012"/> and in 2012 the Press celebrated its 50th anniversary, including publishing a 32-page commemorative booklet on paper and online.<ref name="MITP-50"/><ref name="MITP-History"/> In 2022 the Press celebrated its 60th anniversary, releasing a commemorative 14-panel [[Book folding|Z-folded pamphlet]] on paper and online to highlight significant titles it has published over the decades.<ref name="MITP-60">{{cite web |title=Celebrating 60 years of illuminating publishing |url=https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/mit-press/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/11142520/mitpress_60th_anniversary_brochure.pdf |website=Cloudfront |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=2023-05-08}}</ref><ref name="MITP-History"/>

MIT Press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with [[Yale University Press]] and [[Harvard University Press]]. TriLiteral was acquired by [[LSC Communications]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web| title = LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books| work = Publishers Weekly| access-date = 2018-07-08| url = https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/76495-lsc-buys-triliteral-turner-purchases-g-rze-books.html |first1=Jim |last1=Milliot |date=Apr 3, 2018 }}</ref>

In July 2020, MIT Press transitioned its worldwide sales and distribution to [[Penguin Random House#Penguin Random House Publisher Services|Penguin Random House Publisher Services]].

==Business==
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MIT Press primarily publishes academic and general interest titles in the fields of art and architecture; visual and cultural studies; cognitive science; philosophy; linguistics; [[computer science]]; [[economics]]; finance and business; [[environmental science]]; political science; life sciences; [[neuroscience]]; [[new media]]; and [[history of science and technology|science, technology, and society]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Catalogs|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/catalogs|access-date=2014-05-11 |website=MIT Press }}</ref>

MIT Press is a distributor for [[Semiotext(e)]], [[Goldsmiths Press]], [[Strange Attractor Press]], Sternberg Press, [[Terra Nova Press]], Urbanomic, and Sequence Press. In 2000, the MIT Press created [[CogNet]], an online resource for the study of the brain and the cognitive sciences.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAQ |website=CogNet |url=https://cognet.mit.edu/login/faq|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521140444/https://cognet.mit.edu/login/faq|archive-date=2012-05-21}}</ref> 

In 1981, MIT Press published its first book under the '''Bradford Books'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> imprint, ''Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology'' by [[Daniel Dennett|Daniel C. Dennett]].<ref name="MITP-History">{{cite web |title=History |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/history/ |website=MIT Press |access-date=2023-04-27}}</ref><ref name="MITP-50"/>{{rp|14}}

In 2018, the Press and the [[MIT Media Lab]] launched the [[Knowledge Futures Group]] to develop and deploy open access publishing technology and platforms.

In 2019, the Press launched the ''MIT Press Reader'', a digital magazine that draws on the Press's archive and family of authors to produce adapted excerpts, interviews, and other original works. The publication describes itself as one which "aims to illuminate the bold ideas and voices that make up the Press's expansive catalog, to revisit overlooked passages, and to dive into the stories that inspired the books".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/|title=The MIT Press Reader|website=thereader.mitpress.mit.edu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224051835/https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ |archive-date= Feb 24, 2024 }}</ref>

==Colophon==
[[File:MIT_Press_logo.svg|right|MIT Press's logo]]
Since 1962, the MIT Press has used a colophon or publisher's logo created by its longtime design director, [[Muriel Cooper]].<ref name=wired-logo>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/10/mit-media-lab-gets-transforming-logo-courtesy-pentagram/|title=MIT Media Lab Gets a Transforming Logo, Courtesy of Pentagram|first=Liz|last=Stinson}}</ref> The design is based on a highly abstracted version of the lower-case letters "mitp", with the ascender of the "t" at the fifth stripe and the descender of the "p" at the sixth stripe the only differentiation.<ref name="ColoHist">{{cite web |title=Celebrating 60 years of the MIT Press: The history of the iconic colophon |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/celebrating-60-years-of-the-mit-press-the-history-of-the-iconic-colophon/ |website=MIT Press |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=2023-04-26 |date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=ColoAIGA>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aiga.org/|title=Home &#124; AIGA|website=www.aiga.org}}</ref> In 2015, the colophon also served as an important reference point for the redesign of the [[MIT Media Lab]] logo by [[Pentagram (design studio)|Pentagram]].<ref name=wired-logo/>

In 2011, a custom [[bookcase]] in the form of the MIT Press colophon was displayed at the [[MIT Museum]] as part of the ''MIT 150'' exhibition, commemorating the [[sesquicentennial]] of MIT's founding.<ref name="MITP-50">{{cite web |title=The MIT Press: Celebrating 50 Years |url=https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/mit-press/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20120653/mitpress_50th_anniversary_catalog.pdf |website=Cloudfront |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=2023-05-08}}</ref>{{rp|31}}

In 2023, the [[Museum of Modern Art]] (MoMA) in New York City acquired the MIT Press colophon into its permanent design collection.<ref name="Walton">{{cite web |last1=Walton |first1=Chris |title=The Museum of Modern Art acquires the MIT Press colophon |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2023/04/the-museum-of-modern-art-acquires-muriel-coopers-mit-press-colophon/ |website=The Architect's Newspaper |access-date=2023-04-26 |date=24 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="MoMA">{{cite web |title=MIT Press Colophon |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/446212 |website=MoMA |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=2023-04-26}}</ref>

== Open access ==
MIT Press is a leader in open access book publishing.<ref name="MITP-OA">{{cite web |title=About Our OA Program |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/about-our-oa-program/ |website=MIT Press |access-date=2023-04-27}}</ref> They published their first [[Open-access monograph|open access book]] in 1995 with the publication of [[William J. Mitchell]]'s ''City of Bits'', which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition.<ref name="MITP-History"/> They now publish open access books, textbooks, and journals. Open access journals include ''American Journal of Law and Equality'', [[Computational Linguistics (journal)|''Computational Linguistics'']], ''Data Intelligence'', ''Harvard Data Science Review'', ''Network Neuroscience'', ''Neurobiology of Language'', ''Open Mind'', ''Projections'', ''[[Quantitative Science Studies]]'', ''[[Rapid Reviews: COVID-19]]'', ''Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics'', and ''Thresholds''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Open Access at the MIT Press |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-open |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=[[MIT Press Open Access]]}}</ref>

In 2021, the Press launched Direct to Open, a framework for open access monographs.<ref name="MITP-History"/> In 2022, Direct to Open published 80 monographs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Direct to Open: A bold, innovative model for open access to scholarship and knowledge |url=https://direct.mit.edu/books/pages/direct-to-open |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=MIT Press Direct}}</ref> MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies is a digital collection of classic and previously out-of-print architecture and urban studies books hosted on the digital book platform, MIT Press Direct.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies collection |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/MIT-Press-Open-Architecture-and-Urban-Studies |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=MIT Press |language=en}}</ref>

== MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press ==
In 2019, the MIT Press partnered with [[Candlewick Press]] to launch two new imprints for young readers, MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press, to publish books for children and young adults on [[STEAM fields|STEAM]] topics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press Imprints from Candlewick |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/MITKids_and_MITeen |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=MIT Press |language=en}}</ref> In this pioneering partnership, MIT Press will review outside proposals for new books, as well as proposals generated by its own staff. After editorial evaluation for accuracy, books in process will be handed off to Candlewick, which will oversee design, marketing, promotion, and sales of the new titles.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Alex |title=Candlewick and MIT Press to Launch Joint Children's and Teen Imprints |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/82998-candlewick-and-mit-press-to-launch-joint-children-s-and-teen-imprints.html |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |access-date=2023-04-27 |language=en |date=April 9, 2020}}</ref>

==MIT Press Bookstore==
Since 1980,<ref name="MITP-UPW">{{cite web |title=The MIT Press Bookstore |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-bookstore/ |website=MIT Press |access-date=2023-04-27 |date=7 November 2019}}</ref> the MIT Press Bookstore has been a regional attraction in the heart of the [[Kendall Square]] technology and innovation hub in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. The bookstore is one of a small number of such outlets operated by any university publisher.<ref name="MITP-Home">{{cite web |title=(Homepage) |url=http://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/ |website=The MIT Press Bookstore |access-date=2023-04-27}}</ref><ref name="MITP-History"/> It has offered a complete selection of Press titles for browsing and retail purchase, plus a large selection of complementary works from other academic and trade publishers, including magazines and academic journals.<ref name="Hoodline">{{cite web |title=The 5 best bookstores in Cambridge |url=https://hoodline.com/2018/10/the-5-best-bookstores-in-cambridge/ |website=Hoodline |publisher=SFist LLC |access-date=2023-04-27 |language=en |date=15 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="MITP-Home"/>

Starting in October 2016, the Bookstore was temporarily relocated to [[Central Square, Cambridge|Central Square]], just north of the original location of the [[MIT Museum]], because of extensive construction in Kendall Square.<ref>{{cite web |title=Following the Bookstore to its New Location |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/following-the-bookstore-to-its-new-location/ |website=MIT Press |access-date=2023-04-27 |date=18 November 2016}}</ref> In 2022, the Bookstore moved into a new building at [[Pi|314]] Main Street,<ref name="Kirsner"/> adjacent to a newly-renovated subway entrance to [[Kendall/MIT station]].<ref name="Kirsner">{{cite web |last1=Kirsner |first1=Scott |title=Kendall Square remains a work in progress. Here’s what’s under construction |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/13/business/kendall-square-remains-work-progress/?event=event12 |website=BostonGlobe |publisher=Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC |access-date=2023-04-27 |date=November 13, 2022}}</ref> Sharing the same building, in 2022 the MIT Museum moved to Kendall Square for the first time, including its newly-expanded museum store.<ref name="MITMuseum">{{cite web |title=Move to Kendall FAQs |url=https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/move-kendall-faqs |website=MIT Museum |access-date=2020-03-23}}</ref><ref name="Chandler">{{cite web |last1=Chandler |first1=David L. |title=A new era set to begin in Kendall Square |url=http://news.mit.edu/2016/new-era-kendall-square-initiative-cambridge-planning-board-0518 |website=MIT News |publisher=MIT |access-date=2020-03-23 |date=May 17, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Kirsner"/>

The relocated bookstore has adopted the slogan "Kendall Square's Underground Bookstore", acknowledging its underground location<ref name="Kirsner"/> below the MIT Museum (although with a large opening affording a direct view into its space from the street). In addition to expanding its coverage of academic and technical publications in both the sciences and the humanities, the MIT Press Bookstore features an expanded kid-friendly area dedicated to educational books for children and pre-teens.<ref name="MITP-Home"/> The bookstore also features a selection of travel and historical guides to Boston and the surrounding region, from a variety of publishers.

==List of active journals published by the MIT Press==
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'''Arts and humanities'''
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* ''[[African Arts (journal)|African Arts]]''
* ''[[ARTMargins]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/artm|title=MIT Press Journals|website=MIT Press Journals|language=en|access-date=2018-07-21}}</ref>
* ''[[Computer Music Journal]]''
* ''[[CriticalProductive]]''
* ''[[Daedalus (journal)|Daedalus]]''
* ''[[Design Issues]]''
* ''[[Grey Room]]''
* ''[[Leonardo (journal)|Leonardo]]''
* ''[[The New England Quarterly]]''
* ''[[October (journal)|October]]''
* ''[[PAJ (journal)|PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art]]''
* ''[[Projections (journal)|Projections]]''
* ''[[Thresholds (journal)|Thresholds]]''

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'''Economics'''
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* ''[[Asian Economic Papers]]''
* ''[[Education Finance and Policy]]''
* ''[[The Review of Economics and Statistics]]''
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'''International affairs, history, and political science'''
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* ''[[American Journal of Law and Equality]]''
* ''[[Global Environmental Politics]]''
* ''[[Innovations (journal)|Innovations]]''
* ''[[International Security]]''
* ''[[Journal of Cold War Studies]]''
* ''[[Journal of Climate Resilience and Climate Justice]]''
* ''[[Journal of Interdisciplinary History]]''
* ''[[Perspectives on Science]]''
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'''Science and technology'''
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* ''[[Artificial Life (journal)|Artificial Life]]''
* ''[[Computational Linguistics (journal)|Computational Linguistics]]''
* ''[[Data Intelligence]]''
* ''[[Evolutionary Computation (journal)|Evolutionary Computation]]''
* ''[[Harvard Data Science Review]]''
* ''[[Imaging Neuroscience]]''
* ''[[Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience]]''
* ''[[Linguistic Inquiry]]''
* ''[[Network Neuroscience]]''
* ''[[Neural Computation (journal)|Neural Computation]]''
* ''[[Neurobiology of Language]]''
* ''[[Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science]]''
* ''[[Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments]]''
* ''[[Quantitative Science Studies]]''
* ''[[Rapid Reviews: Infectious Diseases]]''
* ''[[Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics]]''
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==See also==
{{Portal|Literature|Massachusetts}}
* [[List of English-language book publishing companies]]
* [[List of university presses]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
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*[https://mitpress.mit.edu/ Official website]
*[https://direct.mit.edu/journals MIT Press Journals homepage]
*[http://mitpress.typepad.com/mitpresslog/ The MIT PressLog (no longer in use, news blog for the MIT Press)]
*[https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ The MIT Press Reader]
*[https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog The MIT Press Blog]
*[https://mitpress.podbean.com/ The MIT Press Podcast]

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