Dædalus: Reaching a Broader Audience through Open Access

For more than sixty years, Dædalus has drawn on the enormous intellectual capacity of the Academy, engaging the world’s most prominent thinkers from many fields of research, professional practice, and public service. Dædalus has always sought to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, filling a void created by specialization that has made discourse between members of different disciplines and fields increasingly difficult. 

Recent issues have explored subjects such as mental health, implicit bias, artificial intelligence and society, criminal justice, the future of free speech, and the humanities in American life. Forthcoming issues will focus on the global quest for educational equity, the social science of caregiving, American democracy and war, and thinking about the past in the future. 

In January 2021, Dædalus officially became an open access publication, allowing the Academy to share the journal’s content with a greater number and diversity of readers. The effect was immediate, with a threefold increase in downloaded essays, reaching over 450,000 annually, an uptick in citations, and a rise in online readership.

The investment to make Dædalus open access is part of the Academy’s commitment to sharing knowledge, promoting the exchange of ideas, and increasing public trust in information and its sources. However, it comes at a cost. We are grateful to the members and foundations whose support has helped fund select volumes of Dædalus, and we welcome additional contributions to ensure the continued success of this important journal going forward.
 

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Dædalus is grateful for support from the following individuals, foundations, and philanthropic organizations: 

Louise Henry Bryson and John E. Bryson 
Mathea Falco 
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 
The Rockefeller Foundation 
Schmidt Futures 
Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation