Open for Climate Justice

We stand with the organizers of Open Access Week in the belief that "sharing knowledge is a human right, and tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic, and disciplinary boundaries." In this spirit, we are delighted to share a reading list of open access books and journals that expand our understanding of climate and environmental studies.

Join us in celebrating—Open for Climate Justice.

Open Access exhibit at MIT

Visit the Hayden Library @ MIT for an exhibit of open access titles published by the MIT Press.

10/24/22 thru 10/30/22

This image shows the logos of 12 open access journals published by the MIT Press, including American Journal of Law and Equality, Open Mind, Daedalus, Harvard Data Science Review, and more.

Open Journals from the MIT Press

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Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice

Edited by William Shutkin

The MIT Press is honored to publish the new online, open access, peer-reviewed Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice. The journal, to launch with a first issue in May 2023, will provide research reports, case studies, essays, and opinions from the working edge of the climate resilience and climate justice fields written in a non-technical, digestible, and educational style for a broad audience.

Published in partnership with MENV

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Direct to Open

Direct to Open harnesses collective action to support open access to excellent scholarship. Thanks to generous support from libraries around the world the MIT Press will open more than 80 scholarly books in 2022.

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MIT Prize for Open Data ceremony

Our colleagues at the MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries will present the MIT Prize for Open Data on October 28 at 2 pm.

The MIT Press Director of Journals and Open Access, Nick Lindsay, will also be on hand to answer questions about open access publishing.

Hayden Library @ MIT

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Open Access Week 2022

The MIT Press joins with publishers, librarians, educators, students, and readers, across the globe in celebration of International Open Access Week (October 24 - 30, 2022).

In 1995, we leaped into the open access publishing movement, with the publication of William Mitchell's City of Bits. In 2022, we will celebrate opening a record 86 publications by the end of the year—thanks in large part to the tremendous international support for our Direct to Open publishing model.

Open access publishing book publishing takes a village and we are grateful to the authors, staff, funders, librarians, educators, and readers who have made our extensive open access journals and book collection possible.

#OpenAccess is the future.

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Open access journal articles

Many of our journals are either fully or partially open access, so we are presenting only a portion of what is available. View a much deeper collection of climate topics on the MIT Press Direct platform, or search for the topics of interest to you (make sure to filter for open content!).

Global Environmental Politics Daedalus Asian Economic Papers Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization Harvard Data Science Review

Global Environmental Politics

Coal, Climate Justice, and the Cultural Politics of Energy Transition
Benjamin Brown, Samuel J. Spiegel
(2019) 19 (2): 149–168.

Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations
Lisa Vanhala, Cecilie Hestbaek
(2016) 16 (4): 111–129.

Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Harro van Asselt, Peter Newell
1–20.

Subnational Adaptation Finance Allocation: Comparing Decentralized and Devolved Political Institutions in Kenya
Sam Barrett
(2015) 15 (3): 118–139.

Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change
Kai Schulze
(2021) 21 (2): 44–72.

Varieties of Crises: Comparing the Politics of COVID-19 and Climate Change
Hamish van der Ven, Yixian Sun
(2021) 21 (1): 13–22.

Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations
Lisa Vanhala, Cecilie Hestbaek
(2016) 16 (4): 111–129.

Big Oil and Climate Regulation: Business as Usual or a Changing Business?
Irja Vormedal, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Jon Birger Skjærseth
(2020) 20 (4): 143–166.

Daedalus

Planetary Humanities: Straddling the Decolonial/Postcolonial Divide
Dipesh Chakrabarty
(2022) 151 (3): 222–233.

Racism as a Motivator for Climate Justice
Mark A. Mitchell
(2020) 149 (4): 96–107.

Water Security in Africa in the Age of Global Climate Change
Allen Isaacman, Muchaparara Musemwa
(2021) 150 (4): 7–26.

Ghana's Akosombo Dam, Volta Lake Fisheries & Climate Change
Stephan F. Miescher
(2021) 150 (4): 124–142.

Seeing Is Believing: Understanding & Aiding Human Responses to Global Climate Change
Elke U. Weber
(2020) 149 (4): 139–150.

Task Force Climate Change: A Patron Saint of Lost Causes, or Just Ahead of Its Time?
David W. Titley
(2020) 149 (4): 125–138.

Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene: A Historian Witnesses Climate Change on the Korean Peninsula
Scott Gabriel Knowles
(2020) 149 (4): 192–206.

Is Shale Gas Good for Climate Change?
Daniel P. Schrag
(2012) 141 (2): 72–80.

Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory & Experience
Joseph E. Aldy, Robert N. Stavins
(2012) 141 (2): 45–60.

Climate & Water in a Changing Africa: Uncertainty, Adaptation & the Social Construction of Fragile Environments
Harry Verhoeven
(2021) 150 (4): 260–277.

Asian Economic Papers

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization

On Its Own: Bangladesh Can Save Itself from Some Climate Change
Robert Litan
(2021) 13 (1-2): 86–93.

Conservation and Climate Change: The Immediate Need to Adapt
James N. Levitt, Charles C. Chester
(2008) 3 (4): 119–128.

Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change
Thomas W. Malone, Mark Klein
(2007) 2 (3): 15–26.

The Energy Innovation Imperative: Addressing Oil Dependence, Climate Change, and Other 21 st Century Energy Challenges
John P. Holdren
(2006) 1 (2): 3–23.

Energy for Change: Introduction to the Special Issue on Energy & Climate
John P. Holdren
(2009) 4 (4): 3–11.

Harvard Data Science Review

Perspectives on Data Reproducibility and Replicability in Paleoclimate and Climate Science
Rosemary Bush, Andrea Dutton, Michael Evans, Rich Loft, and Gavin A. Schmidt
Published on Dec 16, 2020

Urban Sustainability Observatories: Leveraging Urban Experimentation for Sustainability Science and Policy
by Harvey Miller, Kelly Clifton, Gulsah Akar, Kristin Tufte, Sathya Gopalakrishnan, John MacArthur, Elena Irwin, Rajiv Ramnath, and Jonathan Stiles
Published on May 14, 2021

Building a More Robust Data Science, Toward a More Robust World
by David C. Parkes
Issue 4.3 / Summer 2022

Open access books

We are presenting a selection of books that fit the theme Open for Climate Justice, but we have hundreds of additional open access titles. To explore the complete open library, please visit the MIT Press Direct platform.

Open Access Week 2022 – Open for Climate Justice

Open for Climate Justice

Open Access exhibit at MIT

Open Journals from the MIT Press

Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice

Edited by William Shutkin

Direct to Open

MIT Prize for Open Data ceremony

Open Access Week 2022

Explore open access publishing at the MIT Press:

Open access journal articles

Open access books

"Open access must be the future of academic publishing. . . I applaud MIT Press for pioneering in open access, in cooperation with its participating libraries, and am delighted that my book on climate technology policy will be available with open access."

William Bonvillian