22 January 2019
The MIT Press and Silverchair have announced the launch of MIT Press Direct, a new product built on the Silverchair Platform that facilitates discovery and access to MIT Press’s collection of e-book content.
Features of MIT Press Direct include:
- access to the press’s available e-books, regardless of discipline, on a single unified platform for the first time
- options include the 'complete' collection, with nearly 3,000 backlist e-books with approximately 150 new titles added each year, or subject-specific collections
- access to the frontlist comes with term access to the entire backfile for the duration of the year
- DRM-free e-books with chapter-level access for unlimited simultaneous users
- MARC and KBART records for data ingestion and COUNTER usage reports
- tiered pricing based on FTE and budget, with no ongoing maintenance fees
MIT Press Direct will make nearly 3,000 e-books available by the end of 2019, offering a range of books from its front- and backlist, including works in arts, architecture, biomedical sciences, business, cognitive science, cultural studies, design, digital humanities and new media, economics, education, energy, engineering, environmental science, evolution, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, machine learning and AI, neuroscience, and social sciences.
A key factor in the Press’s selection of Silverchair as a partner was the need for a flexible platform that can accommodate diverse book formats, ranging from highly technical titles with LaTeX mathematical computations to heavily illustrated art and architecture volumes.
MIT Press Direct is now available to institutional subscribers and trials are available. For more information, including pricing, visit the MIT Press Direct website.