Comments on: MIT Adopts an Open-Access Policy

By: MIT goes Open Access « Unruled Notebook

MIT goes Open Access « Unruled Notebook — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:33:15 +0000

[...] get to hear the good news aptly from one of the earliest crusaders, Prof. Hal Abelson: A few hours ago, the MIT faculty [...]

By: xvart

xvart — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:55:04 +0000

I may not understand what they write but these guys are legends, without access to knowledge we are all just monkeys scrabbling in the dust.. thank you..

By: MIT restricts academic freedom? « The Hardest Science

MIT restricts academic freedom? « The Hardest Science — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:51:05 +0000

[...] at MIT have voted to require that all academic publications be open-access. More specifically, the policy requires that when submitting an article to a journal publisher, authors must grant MIT a license [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:37:21 +0000

It would help immensely if somebody could compile a list of major journals that are and are not compatible with this policy.

By: MIT faculty votes to make all publications open access « SBP’s Random Walk

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:25:11 +0000

[...] Now MIT has joined the ranks. In a unanimous vote, the MIT faculty has decided that all future publications must be made available for for open access. [...]

By: MIT makes all faculty publications open access « Stuff Steve Roe Reads

MIT makes all faculty publications open access « Stuff Steve Roe Reads — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:51:31 +0000

[...] makes most MIT classes lecture notes, exams, and videos freely available on the web, MIT is now making all published faculty articles freely available at MIT’s Digital Research [...]

By: MIT goes Open Access « Unruled Notebook

MIT goes Open Access « Unruled Notebook — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:31:46 +0000

[...] open access, open access, open access publishing, open archive, open research by Arunn We get to hear the good news aptly from one of the earliest crusaders, Prof. Hal Abelson: A few hours ago, the MIT faculty [...]

By: Andrew Schrock

Andrew Schrock — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:17:12 +0000

This seems to be an entirely natural progression; many MIT professors already make their scholarly articles available on personal websites, and open courseware works towards the same ends. Students will certainly benefit from increased access to articles, and this will doubtless result in more citations. I’m just curious if MIT will hear any grumblings from professors at the additional workload!

By: Universities as copyright regulators: power and example «

Universities as copyright regulators: power and example « — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:21:42 +0000

[...] their scientific works for publishing it in an open access repository (see Open Access News). In a note on this decision, the chairman of the drafting committee Hal Abelson explains the context of this decision: [...]

By: Items of Interest « Healthy Algorithms

Items of Interest « Healthy Algorithms — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:01:39 +0000

[...] MIT faculty makes scholarly articles freely and openly available to the entire world. [...]