CogNet: Frequently Asked Questions

Table of Contents

• What is CogNet
• Overview of Content
• Overview of Services
• Subscription Info/ Rates
  • Individual
  • Institutional
• Access & Permitted Usage
• Librarian/Institutional Resources
  • Usage Stats
  • Marc Records
• Misc

Developed by The MIT Press, MIT CogNet is an online location for the brain and cognitive science community’s scientific research and interchange. Since breaking ground in 2000, MIT CogNet has become an essential resource for those interested in cutting-edge primary research across the range of fields concerned with understanding the nature of the human mind.

Individual and institutional subscribers to MIT CogNet have access to a comprehensive platform which includes pre-eminent resources from several fields, such as artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and education. The platform provides an ever-growing electronic collection of relevant books, journals, conference proceedings, calls for papers and grey literature, and provides searchable access to ten major reference works published by the MIT Press; Over 530 MIT Press books in full-text PDF; the full text of six MIT Press journals; and abstracts from more than 25 journals from other publishers like Cambridge University Press, the British Psychological Society, Kingston Press, Ltd., and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Journals, full text from the MIT Press

• Artificial Life
• Computational Linguistics
• Evolutionary Computation
• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Linguistic Inquiry
• Neural Computation

Journals from other publishers in Abstract-Only format

• British Psychological Society
• British Journal of Developmental Psychology
• British Journal of Psychology
• Cambridge University Press
  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Journal of Child Language
  • Journal of Linguistics
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • Language in Society
  • Language Variation and Change
  • Phonology
  • Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
  • Psychophysiology
  • RNA
  • Visual Neuroscience
• Kingston Press Ltd.
  • Language and Speech
• Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
  • Developmental Neuropsychology
  • Ecological Psychology
  • Infancy
  • Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Language Acquisition
• Psychonomic Society Publications
  • Animal Learning & Behavior
  • Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers
  • Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Learning & Behavior
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Perception & Psychophysics
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Reference Works

• The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, Edited by Robert A. Wilson and Frank Keil
• The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd edition, Edited by Michael A. Arbib
• The Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Edited by Charles A. Nelson and Monica Luciana
• The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd edition, Edited by Michael S. Gazzaniga
• The Visual Neurosciences, Edited by Leo M. Chalupa and John S. Werner
• The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders, Edited by Raymond D. Kent
• The Handbook of Multisensory Processes, Edited by Gemma A. Calvert, Charles Spence and Barry E. Stein
• The Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition, 2nd Edition, Edited by Roberto Cabeza and Alan Kingstone
• Status Epilepticus, Mechanisms and Management, Edited by Claude G. Wasterlain and David M. Treiman
• Principles and Practice of Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision, 2nd Edition, Edited by John R. Heckenlively and Geoffrey B. Arden

Books, more than 530 MIT Press Books in full-text searchable PDF.

•    List of Book Titles
•    List of Book Titles

New book titles added in 2010.

•    List of 2010 Book Titles
•    List of 2010 Book Titles

How do I subscribe to MIT CogNet as an individual?

Click here and follow the prompts to register and subscribe to MIT CogNet. For more information on individual subscriptions, please visit the subscription info page.

How do I renew my subscription to MIT CogNet as an individual?

MIT CogNet will be adding an automated renewal feature in the near future. In the meantime, please email: cognetadmin@mit.edu requesting your subscription renewal. A customer service representative will assist you with the renewal process.

2011 Individual Subscription Rates

• $195.00 1-year subscription
• $100.00 6-month subscription
• $30.00 1-month subscription
• $15.00 5-day trial

How do I subscribe for my institution?

MIT CogNet offers institutions a free 60-day trial period to evaluate the site. To request a free trial please go to https://cognet.mit.edu/registration/site, Complete the request form and a customer service representative will respond. Access is based upon IP address and account activation can be established quite easily.

Or to subscribe to MIT CogNet please email: site-license@mit.edu

Pricing for MIT CogNet is based upon The 2000 Carnegie Classification. For more information on the subscription pricing structure, please refer to Institutional Subscription Information.

Subscriptions are for a one year period from January 1 to December 31. Subscription rates are discounted based on when the subscription begins within the calendar year.

Pro-rated Discount Schedule*

• 10% February ­ March
• 20% April ­ May
• 30% June ­ July
• 40% August ­ September

*October ­ December: No charge if accompanied with a full subscription for the following year.

How do users get access to content?

Individual subscribers have full access to all content hosted in MIT CogNet beginning at the time the subscription is activated.

Institutional subscribers have full access to all content hosted in MIT CogNet. Access is based upon IP ranges so users must be coming in on a recognized IP address. Both individual and institutional subscribers may register as a user to MIT CogNet. To register, click on the Register button on the left-side of CogNet’s homepage. All registered users receive a 20% discount on MIT Press books in the brain and cognitive sciences.

Our library already subscribes to some of the MIT Press journals available in CogNet. Are there differences between access to those journals via CogNet and subscribing to them directly?

There are two main differences:

1. After a subscription to an MIT Press journal is terminated/not renewed, the subscriber is entitled to retain access to the volumes that were published during the term of the subscription. Once a subscription to CogNet is terminated access to all content, including content that was published during the term of the subscription, is removed.

For example, if you subscribed directly to Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience between 2006-2009, but did not renew in 2010, you would still be entitled to access the 2006-2009 volumes online, indefinitely.

2. If you subscribed to CogNet between 2006-2009, but did not renew in 2010, you would have no access to Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience or any of the other titles in CogNet.

Subscribing to the journals directly gives you the option of receiving the print version of the journal. A subscription to CogNet does not offer any print options.

Does MIT Press offer any discounts when subscribing to CogNet and a journal that is in CogNet at the same time?

Yes. You will receive a 5% discount on your CogNet subscription for every journal you continue to subscribe to directly, to a maximum of 20%. E.g. if you subscribe to Artificial Life, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Neural Computation, you will receive 15% off the CogNet subscription price.

When individual or institutional subscriptions end is there permanent access to archived issues of MIT Press journals?

No. Access to MIT Press journals’ content is only active during the subscription period. Once the subscription is terminated, all access to content is terminated.

Who is allowed access to CogNet content if we subscribe?

All members of your user community coming in on registered IP ranges will have access to CogNet.

How do I add a user who is coming in from a different IP than my larger user community?

Access can be created in one of two ways. We can establish access for remote users via a proxy IP, or if that is not available, we can provide a complimentary individual subscription for the user that will terminate when the institutional subscription terminates.

Can book content hosted in MIT CogNet be printed?

No. The book titles hosted in MIT CogNet are locked .pdf files and can not be printed. One of the primary goals of MIT CogNet is to provide breadth and depth of content at an affordable price. If we were to permit printing of the book titles hosted in MIT CogNet, we would have to substantially increase our subscription rates in order to cover the royalty fees to the authors.

What are the permitted uses of MIT CogNet?

For individual subscribers please refer to our Terms of Use.

For institutional subscribers please refer to our Institutional Site License.

May I include content from MIT CogNet in an electronic coursepack?

As an institutional subscriber to MIT CogNet, members of your user community may include links to content within MIT CogNet in their electronic coursepacks. This would include electronic course management systems such as Blackboard.

How do I request permission to use the book and journal content available in MIT CogNet?

For all permissions requests, please contact: Pam Quick, Permissions Coordinator at quik@mit.edu

Yes*. To get usage statistics for the first time follow the steps above in the Usage Statistics section:

1. Register as a user if you are not already registered. Library Administrators need to be registered users in order to access usage statistics.
2. Once you have registered, contact site-license@mit.edu and notify CogNet Admin; we will create administrative access for you as the library administrator for your institution’s subscription to MIT CogNet.
3. After you receive notification from the CogNet Admin, go to the CogNet homepage and log in. Your name and the name of your institution will appear in the upper right corner of the screen. Click on your institution. The screen will refresh and the admin. contact information for your subscription will appear. On the right side of the screen is the Admin Options menu where you can access your institution's usage statistics.

*For the months of February and March in the year 2006 we do not have usage statistics. This information was lost from our database. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Journal Usage Statistics Special Notes

Subscribers to CogNet access the full-text article .pdfs from the six MIT Press journals that are a part of CogNet, through our main site: www.mitpressjournals.org While the Table of Contents for any given journal issue resides on the CogNet server, once the subscriber clicks through to a specific article from the Table of Contents, the user is transferred from MIT CogNet and goes to the Atypon provider. Atypon is not able to recognize the specific institutional subscriber but only recognizes the user as coming in from CogNet. For this reason, journal usage statistics can only be provided up to the Table of Contents for a given journal issue. As a result, the usage statistics reflected for journals access within CogNet only counts the hit to the Table of Contents and NOT the further hits to individual journal articles.

MIT CogNet does provide MARC records for its institutional subscribers. Download MARC records from the For Librarians section of CogNet.

Are promotional materials available for MIT CogNet?

Yes, we provide literature, bookmarks, post-it-notes and other promotional materials that can be made available to institutional subscribers’ user community. Contact: site-license@mit.edu to request materials and please allow two weeks for delivery.

Where does my institution name display on the CogNet site, and how can I change it?

The name of your institution, along with the name of the user (if they are registered), appears in the upper right corner of each screen. To change the display contact: site-license@mit.edu and provide the new display information.

How do I obtain my individual login and password to MIT CogNet if I have forgotten it?

Send an email to CogNet Admin requesting your MIT CogNet login. You will receive an email with your password, your login is the same as your email address.

Are the paper and digital versions of MIT CogNet books and articles the same?

Yes. The content hosted in MIT CogNet is the same as the printed published works for all books and journals.

How do I search for specific content/area within CogNet?

The CogNet Library is broken down into three major content areas: Books, Journals and Reference Works. A user may search across all the content hosted in MIT CogNet by using the Search field located in the upper right corner of each screen. To search individual sections of CogNet please use the Advanced Search.

How are users notified when new content is added to MIT CogNet?

When new book content is added an announcement is made via email notification to both individual and institutional subscribers, including any registered users at subscribing institutions.

What is the best way to contact us?

Please send an email to us at CogNet Admin.