The MIT Press is a

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affiliated with the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT) in

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(United States). It was established in 1962.

History

The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT published under its own name a lecture series entitled ''Problems of Atomic Dynamics'' given by the visiting German physicist and later

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winner, Max Born. Six years later, MIT's publishing operations were first formally instituted by the creation of an imprint called Technology Press in 1932. 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

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in which Wiley took over marketing and editorial responsibilities. In 1962 the association with Wiley came to an end after a further 125 titles had been published. The press acquired its modern name after this separation, and has since functioned as an independent publishing house. 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. In January 2010 the MIT Press published its 9000th title, and in 2012 the Press celebrated its 50th anniversary, including publishing a commemorative booklet on paper and online. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with Yale University Press and

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. TriLiteral was acquired by LSC Communications in 2018. In July 2020, the MIT Press transitioned its worldwide sales and distribution to Penguin Random House Publisher Services.

Business

The 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 Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

;

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

; Finance and Business; Environmental Science; Political Science; Life Sciences; Neuroscience;

New Media New media describes communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content. In the middle of the 1990s, the phrase "new media" became widely used as part of a sales pitch for ...

; and

Science, Technology, and Society Science and technology studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. History Like most interdisciplinary fie ...

. The MIT Press is a distributor for

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Goldsmiths Press Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

Strange Attractor Press Mark Pilkington (born 26 February 1973) is a writer, publisher, curator and musician with particular interest in the fringes of knowledge, culture and belief. Career He has written two books, ''Mirage Men'' (2010) and ''Far Out: 101 Strange T ...

, 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. In 1981, the MIT Press published its first book under the Bradford Books imprint, ''Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology'' by Daniel C. Dennett. In 2018, the Press and the

MIT Media Lab The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fixed academic disciplines, but draws from ...

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".

Colophon

The MIT Press uses a colophon or logo designed by its longtime design director, Muriel Cooper, in 1962. 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. It later served as an important reference point for the 2015 redesign of the

logo by

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Open Access

The MIT Press is a leader in open access book publishing. They published their first open access book in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell's ''City of Bits'', which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition. 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''. In 2021, the Press launched Direct to Open, a framework for open access monographs. In 2022, Direct to Open published 80 monographs. 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.

MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press

In 2019, the MIT Press partnered with

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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.

List of journals published by the MIT Press

Arts and humanities * '' African Arts'' * '' ARTMargins'' * '' Computer Music Journal'' * '' Daedalus'' * '' Design Issues'' * '' Grey Room'' * '' JoDS: Journal of Design and Science'' * '' Leonardo'' * '' Leonardo Music Journal'' * '' The New England Quarterly'' * '' October'' * '' PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art'' * '' Projections'' * '' Thresholds'' Economics * '' Asian Economic Papers'' * '' Cryptoeconomic Systems'' * '' Education Finance and Policy'' * ''

The Review of Economics and Statistics ''The'' ''Review of Economics and Statistics'' is a peer-reviewed 103-year-old general journal that focuses on applied economics, with specific relevance to the scope of quantitative economics. The ''Review'', edited at the Harvard University’s K ...

'' International affairs, history, and political science * '' American Journal of Law and Equality'' * ''

Global Environmental Politics ''Global Environmental Politics'' (''GEP'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which examines the relationship between global political forces and environmental change. It covers such topics as the role of states, international finance, ...

'' * ''

Innovations Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entit ...

'' * '' International Security'' * '' Journal of Cold War Studies'' * ''

Journal of Interdisciplinary History The ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the MIT Press. It covers a broad range of historical themes and periods, linking history to other academic fields. Contents The journal featur ...

'' * ''

Perspectives on Science ''Perspectives on Science'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes contributions to science studies that integrate historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. The journal contains theoretical essays, case studies, and re ...

'' Science and technology * ''

Artificial Life Artificial life (often abbreviated ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry ...

'' * '' Computational Linguistics'' * '' Data Intelligence'' * '' Evolutionary Computation'' * '' Harvard Data Science Review'' * '' Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience'' * '' Linguistic Inquiry'' * ''

Network Neuroscience Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

'' * '' Neural Computation'' * '' Neurobiology of Language'' * '' Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science'' * '' Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments'' * '' Quantitative Science Studies'' * '' Rapid Reviews: COVID-19'' * '' Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics''

References

External links

Official websiteMIT Press Journals homepageThe MIT PressLog (no longer in use, news blog for the MIT Press)The MIT Press ReaderThe MIT Press BlogThe MIT Press Podcast
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