Details at Open Access News: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/mit-adopts-university-wide-oa-mandate.html
D Parker Phinney wrote: > to clarify, is this open access to what professors are publishing? Yes. (Just "scholarly articles", i.e. typically what's published in journals without royalty. Book chapters, textbooks, newspaper columns, etc. wouldn't apply.) > what students are publishing? This resolution doesn't mention students. Separately, it looks like MIT's default policy for theses and dissertations is open access: http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/thesis-specs/index.html#copyright > have they cancelled their closed-access journal subscriptions? This resolution doesn't mention that. That seems very unlikely. -- Gavin Baker http://www.gavinbaker.com/ [email protected] He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. epitaph of George Washington Carver _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
