Open access for scholarly publications was mandated to MIT faculty this week.
According to the document:
Each Faculty member grants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination…
The digital aspect stretches from individual faculty members to digital repositories:
To assist the Institute in distributing the scholarly articles, as of the date of publication, each Faculty member will make available an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article at no charge to a designated representative of the Provost’s Office in appropriate formats (such as PDF) specified by the Provost’s Office.
The Provost’s Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open- access repository.
Posted on March 20, 2009 at 10:56 am by Bryan Alexander · Permalink
In: Libraries · Tagged with: digital repositories, scholarly publication
In: Libraries · Tagged with: digital repositories, scholarly publication
on March 20, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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Todd Bryant asks a question by email, which I paraphrase here. How will MIT faculty deal with publishers who require exclusive and/or first time rights?
on March 20, 2009 at 10:52 pm
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[...] my god, he’s done it again. Bryan Alexander blogged at Liberal Education Today about MIT’s awesome new Open Access policy, whereby all MIT faculty give MIT nonexclusive [...]
on March 30, 2009 at 11:37 am
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When MIT faculty want to publish in journals that demand exclusive rights, they may request a waiver from the dean. This is the same solution adopted at Harvard. Faculty cannot request a general waiver, for all their articles, but must make separate requests for separate articles.