The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the MIT Press recently announced that Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy, will now be an open-access publication. The MIT Press has published Dædalus on behalf of the academy since 2003. Years of volumes and hundreds of essays previously behind a paywall have been ungated and made freely available.
“Open access to Dædalus is a meaningful way to support the best interests of authors and audiences, and increase the impact of the academy’s work,” says David W. Oxtoby, president of the AAAS. “With this investment, we are making scholarship more broadly accessible as part of our commitment to sharing knowledge, promoting the exchange of ideas, and increasing public trust in information and its sources.”
First published in 1955 and established as a quarterly journal in 1958, Dædalus has addressed a wide and multidisciplinary range of subjects over the years. Topics explored in recent issues include climate...
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