In celebration of International Open Access Week 2024, please join us for a conversation with Open Mind, MIT Press, MIT Libraries, and Harvard Library.

Although a young journal in the field, Open Mind has a history of leading the field in open access publishing. With funding from the MIT Libraries the MIT Press moved Open Mind to a diamond open access publishing model in 2022, eliminating all article processing fees for scholars and providing free access for readers and researchers alike. Building on these efforts, Open Mind will be cofunded by Harvard Library and MIT Libraries now through 2027. Open Mind is the first journal to be supported by the Harvard Open Journals Program, announced earlier this year to advance and sustain no-fee open access scholarly publishing.

For this conversation, panelists will discuss the journal's flip to no-fee OA, stabilizing and sustaining the journal through cooperative funding, the benefits and challenges of no-fee OA publishing—and why it is worth pursuing.

Free and open to the public. Available online via Zoom. Registration required.

About Open Mind

Open Mind provides a new venue for the highest quality, most innovative work in cognitive science, offering free open access publishing, concise and accessible articles, and quick turnaround times for authors. The journal covers the broad array of content areas within cognitive science, using approaches from cognitive psychology, computer science and mathematical psychology, cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, comparative psychology and behavioral anthropology, decision sciences, and theoretical and experimental linguistics.

Panelists

Samuel Gershman, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University & Editor, Open Mind

Edward Gibson, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT & Editor, Open Mind

Nick Lindsay, Director of Journals and Open Access, MIT Press

Laura Hanscom, Head, Scholarly Communications & Collections Strategy, MIT Libraries

Yuan Li, University Scholarly Communication Officer & Director, Open Scholarship and Research Data Services, Harvard Library

Colleen Cressman, Librarian for Open Publishing, Open Scholarship and Research Data Services, Harvard Library