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Wikipedia:MIT/Navbox MIT Press Journals is a scholarly publisher of over 30 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Its journals include Daedalus, International Security, and Artificial Life. For more information, see their website.

There are up to 200 one-year accounts available to Wikipedians.

Requirements

• You have your preferences enabled to receive email messages on English Wikipedia; (see Special:Preferences)
• You do not already have access to MIT Press Journals through another library, university, or institution
• You have an account that is a minimum of 1 year old
• You have a minimum of 1000 edits to the encyclopedia

If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered

Expectations

Approved editors may

• Search, view, retrieve, portions of restricted content;

• Electronically save portions of restricted content;

• Print out single copies of portions of restricted content;

• Comply with any terms and conditions which appear on the particular pages of the MIT Press Journals website they are accessing.

• Display individual excerpts, quotations, or other portions of content up to but not greater than 500 words

Approved editors will not

• Share their account logins or passwords with others, or sell their access to other parties

• Mass scrape or mass download MIT Press Journals content

• Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose.

• Datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles.

• Display individual excerpts, quotations, or other portions of content greater than 500 words

Private and confidential information

• By applying to the Program, you understand and agree that your name and email address may be shared with representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation, The Wikipedia Library, and MIT Press. Wikipedia Library organizers contracted under the Wikimedia Foundation will abide by the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy and associated confidentiality agreements. Volunteer representatives of the Wikipedia Library are neither employees nor contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation (or MIT Press), but they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Citation

• Editors should always provide original citation information including a DOI, in addition to linking to MIT Press Journals, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT.
• Editors should not provide bare links to non-free MIT Press pages
• Editors should note "that subscription may be required"
• Review citation policies WP:V, WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT, WP:PAYWALL
• Respect the copyright of MIT Press, in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright policy and their terms of use
• Cite MIT Press resources in line with the citation examples provided below

Example

{{cite journal|author=Horwitz, Jill; Polsky, Daniel|journal=American Journal of Health Economics|year=2015|volume=1|issue=1|title=Cross Border Effects of State Health Technology Regulation|url=http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/AJHE_a_00005|doi=10.1162/AJHE_a_00005}} {{Subscription needed|via=[[MIT Press|MIT Press Journals]]}}

• Horwitz, Jill; Polsky, Daniel (2015). "Cross Border Effects of State Health Technology Regulation". American Journal of Health Economics. 1 (1). doi:10.1162/AJHE_a_00005.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)  – via MIT Press Journals (subscription required)

Further participation

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Add yourself at the bottom of the list with a line starting with #{{user8|USERNAME|Project=code}} (eg. {{user8|Example|Project=en}}) followed by an explanation of why you would like access to this resource. It is a good idea to include in your application text your editing areas benefited by access and examples of your commitment to content creation.

1. sicaspi (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email)-- I have had extensive contributions to fa.wiki in these areas. --Drako (talk) 22:46, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
2. czar (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) humanities, history and philosophy of education, history of technology and interactive media czar ⨹ 23:42, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
3. Moorlock (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I work on pages concerning historical tax rebellions, some obscure American figures of the 19th century, and other things that momentarily catch my fancy -Moorlock (talk) 01:41, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
4. सत्यम् मिश्र (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I work on geography topics on bh.wiki and hi.wiki, and I believe MIT has a good deal of resources on human geography topics and quantitative revolution in geogrsphy. This will help me a lot. - Satyam Mishra ^--talk-- 03:11, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
5. Satdeep Gill (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email)-- I mostly work on humanities and art related topics. I have been working on Wiki for more than 5 years. --Satdeep Gill (talk • contribs 04:31, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
6. Buckshot06 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have a long content creation record working in the area of military science and current conflict. Featured and formerly featured articles include Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russian Ground Forces, but I also contribute widely, with attention to trying to reduce WP:SYSTEMICBIAS, often by editing Africa-related articles. Also work on Russian security related articles. Joined 2006; administrator. Buckshot06 (talk) 06:10, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
7. Sp33dyphil (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I work on articles pertaining to international relations and military history. Access to MIT Press will be very helpful. Sp33dyphil (talk) 10:16, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
8. Dmartyn80 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email)-- I work on articles about history of Academic art, Pre-Columbian codexes, Medieval book culture and papyrology etc. --Dmartyn80 (talk) 11:36, 5 May 2015 (UTC)