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January 19, 2024

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Press has been a pioneer in the Open Access movement in academic publishing and publishes a number of academic journals. The organization also operates the MIT Press Bookstore, which is one of the few retail bookstores run by a university publisher.

MIT Press
Parent companyMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Founded1962; 62 years ago (1962)
FounderJames R. Killian Jr.
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationCambridge, Massachusetts
DistributionPenguin Random House Publishing Services
Key peopleAmy Brand
(director)[1]
Publication typesBooks, academic journals
Official websitemitpress.mit.edu
Display of publications at conference booth in 2008
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been a steady best-seller, as a widely-used introduction to computer science

History edit

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 called Technology Press.[2]: 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.[2]: 13 

In 1961, the centennial of MIT's founding charter, the publisher was renamed as "The MIT Press".[2]: 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.[3]

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.[3]

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,[3] and in 2012 the Press celebrated its 50th anniversary, including publishing a 32-page commemorative booklet on paper and online.[2][1] In 2022 the Press celebrated its 60th anniversary, releasing a commemorative 14-panel Z-folded pamphlet on paper and online to highlight significant titles it has published over the decades.[4][1]

MIT Press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with Yale University Press and Harvard University Press. TriLiteral was acquired by LSC Communications in 2018.[5]

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

Business edit

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 science, technology, and society.[6]

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.[7]

In 1981, MIT Press published its first book under the Bradford Books imprint, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett.[1][2]: 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".[8]

Colophon edit

 
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.[9] 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.[10][11] In 2015, the colophon also served as an important reference point for the redesign of the MIT Media Lab logo by Pentagram.[9]

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.[2]: 31 

In 2023. the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City acquired the MIT Press colophon into its permanent design collection.[12][13]

Open access edit

MIT Press is a leader in open access book publishing.[14] They published their first 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.[1] They now publish open access books, textbooks, and journals. Open access journals include American Journal of Law and Equality, 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.[15]

In 2021, the Press launched Direct to Open, a framework for open access monographs.[1] In 2022, Direct to Open published 80 monographs.[16] 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.[17]

MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press edit

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 topics.[18] 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.[19]

MIT Press Bookstore edit

Since 1980,[20] 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.[21][1] 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.[22][21]

Starting in October 2016, the Bookstore was temporarily relocated to Central Square, just north of the original location of the MIT Museum, because of extensive construction in Kendall Square.[23] In 2022, the Bookstore moved into a new building at 314 Main Street,[24] adjacent to a newly-renovated subway entrance to Kendall/MIT station.[24] Sharing the same building, in 2022 the MIT Museum moved to Kendall Square for the first time, including its newly-expanded museum store.[25][26][24]

The relocated bookstore has adopted the slogan "Kendall Square's Underground Bookstore", acknowledging its underground location[24] 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.[21] 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 edit

Main category: MIT Press academic journals

Arts and humanities

Economics

International affairs, history, and political science

Science and technology

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "History". MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "The MIT Press: Celebrating 50 Years" (PDF). Cloudfront. MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  3. ^ a b c . The MIT Press. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  4. ^ "Celebrating 60 years of illuminating publishing" (PDF). Cloudfront. MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  5. ^ "LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-07-08.
  6. ^ . Archived from the original on 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2014-05-11.
  7. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-05-21.
  8. ^ "The MIT Press Reader". The MIT Press Reader.
  9. ^ a b Stinson, Liz. "MIT Media Lab Gets a Transforming Logo, Courtesy of Pentagram".
  10. ^ "Celebrating 60 years of the MIT Press: The history of the iconic colophon". MIT Press. MIT Press. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  11. ^ "Home | AIGA". www.aiga.org.
  12. ^ Walton, Chris (24 April 2023). "The Museum of Modern Art acquires the MIT Press colophon". The Architect's Newspaper. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  13. ^ "MIT Press Colophon". MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  14. ^ "About Our OA Program". MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  15. ^ "Open Access at the MIT Press". MIT Press Open Access. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  16. ^ "Direct to Open: A bold, innovative model for open access to scholarship and knowledge". MIT Press Direct. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  17. ^ "The MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies collection". MIT Press. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  18. ^ "MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press Imprints from Candlewick". MIT Press. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  19. ^ Green, Alex (April 9, 2020). "Candlewick and MIT Press to Launch Joint Children's and Teen Imprints". PublishersWeekly.com. PWxyz, LLC. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  20. ^ "The MIT Press Bookstore". MIT Press. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  21. ^ a b c "(Homepage)". The MIT Press Bookstore. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  22. ^ "The 5 best bookstores in Cambridge". Hoodline. SFist LLC. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  23. ^ "Following the Bookstore to its New Location". MIT Press. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  24. ^ a b c d Kirsner, Scott (November 13, 2022). "Kendall Square remains a work in progress. Here's what's under construction". BostonGlobe. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  25. ^ "Move to Kendall FAQs". MIT Museum. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  26. ^ Chandler, David L. (May 17, 2016). "A new era set to begin in Kendall Square". MIT News. MIT. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  27. ^ "MIT Press Journals". MIT Press Journals. Retrieved 2018-07-21.

External links edit

 
Scholia has a publisher profile for MIT Press.
  • Official website
  • MIT Press Journals homepage
  • The MIT PressLog (no longer in use, news blog for the MIT Press)
  • The MIT Press Reader
  • The MIT Press Blog
  • The MIT Press Podcast


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The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts The Press has been a pioneer in the Open Access movement in academic publishing and publishes a number of academic journals The organization also operates the MIT Press Bookstore which is one of the few retail bookstores run by a university publisher MIT PressParent companyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyFounded1962 62 years ago 1962 FounderJames R Killian Jr Country of originUnited StatesHeadquarters locationCambridge MassachusettsDistributionPenguin Random House Publishing ServicesKey peopleAmy Brand director 1 Publication typesBooks academic journalsOfficial websitemitpress wbr mit wbr eduDisplay of publications at conference booth in 2008Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been a steady best seller as a widely used introduction to computer science Contents 1 History 2 Business 3 Colophon 4 Open access 5 MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press 6 MIT Press Bookstore 7 List of active journals published by the MIT Press 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistory editMIT 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 called Technology Press 2 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 amp Sons in which Wiley took over marketing and editorial responsibilities 2 13 In 1961 the centennial of MIT s founding charter the publisher was renamed as The MIT Press 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 and in 2012 the Press celebrated its 50th anniversary including publishing a 32 page commemorative booklet on paper and online 2 1 In 2022 the Press celebrated its 60th anniversary releasing a commemorative 14 panel Z folded pamphlet on paper and online to highlight significant titles it has published over the decades 4 1 MIT Press co founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with Yale University Press and Harvard University Press TriLiteral was acquired by LSC Communications in 2018 5 In July 2020 MIT Press transitioned its worldwide sales and distribution to Penguin Random House Publisher Services Business editMIT 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 science technology and society 6 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 7 In 1981 MIT Press published its first book under the Bradford Books imprint Brainstorms Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C Dennett 1 2 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 8 Colophon edit nbsp MIT Press s logoSince 1962 the MIT Press has used a colophon or publisher s logo created by its longtime design director Muriel Cooper 9 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 10 11 In 2015 the colophon also served as an important reference point for the redesign of the MIT Media Lab logo by Pentagram 9 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 2 31 In 2023 the Museum of Modern Art MoMA in New York City acquired the MIT Press colophon into its permanent design collection 12 13 Open access editMIT Press is a leader in open access book publishing 14 They published their first 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 1 They now publish open access books textbooks and journals Open access journals include American Journal of Law and Equality 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 15 In 2021 the Press launched Direct to Open a framework for open access monographs 1 In 2022 Direct to Open published 80 monographs 16 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 17 MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press editIn 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 topics 18 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 19 MIT Press Bookstore editSince 1980 20 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 21 1 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 22 21 Starting in October 2016 the Bookstore was temporarily relocated to Central Square just north of the original location of the MIT Museum because of extensive construction in Kendall Square 23 In 2022 the Bookstore moved into a new building at 314 Main Street 24 adjacent to a newly renovated subway entrance to Kendall MIT station 24 Sharing the same building in 2022 the MIT Museum moved to Kendall Square for the first time including its newly expanded museum store 25 26 24 The relocated bookstore has adopted the slogan Kendall Square s Underground Bookstore acknowledging its underground location 24 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 21 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 editMain category MIT Press academic journals Arts and humanities African Arts ARTMargins 27 Computer Music Journal CriticalProductive Daedalus Design Issues Grey Room Leonardo The New England Quarterly October PAJ A Journal of Performance and Art Projections Thresholds Economics Asian Economic Papers Education Finance and Policy The Review of Economics and Statistics International affairs history and political science American Journal of Law and Equality Global Environmental Politics Innovations International Security Journal of Cold War Studies Journal of Climate Resilience and Climate Justice Journal of Interdisciplinary History Perspectives on Science Science and technology Artificial Life Computational Linguistics Data Intelligence Evolutionary Computation Harvard Data Science Review Imaging Neuroscience Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Linguistic Inquiry Network Neuroscience Neural Computation Neurobiology of Language Open Mind Discoveries in Cognitive Science Presence Teleoperators amp Virtual Environments Quantitative Science Studies Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases Transactions of the Association for Computational LinguisticsSee also edit nbsp Literature portal nbsp Massachusetts portalList of English language book publishing companies List of university pressesReferences edit a b c d e f g History MIT Press Retrieved 2023 04 27 a b c d e f The MIT Press Celebrating 50 Years PDF Cloudfront MIT Press Retrieved 2023 05 08 a b c History The MIT Press Archived from the original on 2012 10 20 Retrieved 2012 11 17 Celebrating 60 years of illuminating publishing PDF Cloudfront MIT Press Retrieved 2023 05 08 LSC Buys TriLiteral Turner Purchases Gurze Books PublishersWeekly com Retrieved 2018 07 08 MIT Press Catalogs Archived from the original on 2018 03 14 Retrieved 2014 05 11 CogNet FAQ Archived from the original on 2012 05 21 The MIT Press Reader The MIT Press Reader a b Stinson Liz MIT Media Lab Gets a Transforming Logo Courtesy of Pentagram Celebrating 60 years of the MIT Press The history of the iconic colophon MIT Press MIT Press 4 August 2022 Retrieved 2023 04 26 Home AIGA www aiga org Walton Chris 24 April 2023 The Museum of Modern Art acquires the MIT Press colophon The Architect s Newspaper Retrieved 2023 04 26 MIT Press Colophon MoMA The Museum of Modern Art Retrieved 2023 04 26 About Our OA Program MIT Press Retrieved 2023 04 27 Open Access at the MIT Press MIT Press Open Access Retrieved 2022 03 02 Direct to Open A bold innovative model for open access to scholarship and knowledge MIT Press Direct Retrieved 2022 03 02 The MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies collection MIT Press Retrieved 2022 03 02 MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press Imprints from Candlewick MIT Press Retrieved 2022 03 02 Green Alex April 9 2020 Candlewick and MIT Press to Launch Joint Children s and Teen Imprints PublishersWeekly com PWxyz LLC Retrieved 2023 04 27 The MIT Press Bookstore MIT Press 7 November 2019 Retrieved 2023 04 27 a b c Homepage The MIT Press Bookstore Retrieved 2023 04 27 The 5 best bookstores in Cambridge Hoodline SFist LLC 15 October 2018 Retrieved 2023 04 27 Following the Bookstore to its New Location MIT Press 18 November 2016 Retrieved 2023 04 27 a b c d Kirsner Scott November 13 2022 Kendall Square remains a work in progress Here s what s under construction BostonGlobe Boston Globe Media Partners LLC Retrieved 2023 04 27 Move to Kendall FAQs MIT Museum Retrieved 2020 03 23 Chandler David L May 17 2016 A new era set to begin in Kendall Square MIT News MIT Retrieved 2020 03 23 MIT Press Journals MIT Press Journals Retrieved 2018 07 21 External links edit nbsp Scholia has a publisher profile for MIT Press Official website MIT Press Journals homepage The MIT PressLog no longer in use news blog for the MIT Press The MIT Press Reader The MIT Press Blog The MIT Press Podcast 42 21 43 7 N 71 5 8 0 W 42 362139 N 71 085556 W 42 362139 71 085556 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title MIT Press amp oldid 1194749964, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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