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The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model.
D2O gives institutions the opportunity to harness collective action to support access to knowledge. Beginning in 2022, all new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited collections will be openly available on the MIT Press Direct eBook platform. Instead of purchasing a title once for a single collection, libraries now have the opportunity to fund them one time for the world through participant fees.
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To the Editor:
As families spend more time together during the pandemic, they are resorting to watching adult-rated TV shows that are probably going to be inappropriate for children, or even harmful. Why? Because Hollywood very rarely produces programming that is appropriate for the entire family to view together. But increasingly, that is what families want.
Hollywood should realize that this is a golden opportunity to better serve an underserved market. At the same time, parents should remember that even though they might be there to mitigate harmful messages, they are still only mitigating.
Watching explicit content with children does not entirely eliminate the harm done by exposing them to content that is neither emotionally nor developmentally appropriate.