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.

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