[sc-announce] MIT passes university-wide Open Access resolution - Science Commons blog
Kaitlin Thaney
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Thu Mar 19 17:56:29 EDT 2009
MIT passes university-wide Open Access resolution
March 19th, 2009<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/03/19/mit-passes-university-wide-open-access-resolution/>by
Kaitlin Thaney
Yesterday, by unanimous vote, MIT faculty adopted an Open Access resolution
(text here<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2009/03/mit-adopts-university-wide-oa-mandate.html>)
that will make scholarly articles available at no charge, freely to the
public through DSpace <http://dspace.mit.edu/> - MIT’s repository service.
The way this policy works is that faculty authors grant the university
non-exclusive permission to make their scholarly works available in a
repository, with the right for MIT and its faculty to publicly disseminate
for all uses except commercial. The resolution is believed to be the first
faculty-driven, university-wide policy, and joins other similar initiatives
recently adopted at
Harvard<http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/OpenAccess/policytexts.php>,
Stanford <http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/faculty/openaccess.html> and the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) <http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm>.
This follows on our Addendum Generator <http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/>,
created by Science Commons as part of the Scholar’s Copyright
project<http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing>,
which hosts the MIT
Addendum<http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-copyright-amendment-form/>,
among others. The MIT Addendum helps scholars to negotiate with publishers
for rights to comply with this new policy, as well as the NIH
mandate<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/03/17/nih-mandate-made-permanent/>.
Authors can use our Addendum Engine to easily generate a one page document
to attach to their submissions to the publishers, stating which rights
they’d like to retain.
We applaud the university for passing this resolution, which is a great step
forward for Open Access, and also encourage members of the MIT faculty to
consider using one of our addenda <http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/> to
ensure their work can be publicly accessed and shared post-publication.
Also, for more information on how to comply with these policies, read our
white paper, “Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to
ensure open access to their work through their
institution.”<http://sciencecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/opendoors_v1.pdf>
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Kaitlin Thaney
Program Manager
Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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