Contest Offers $10,001 for App to Support Open Science
Monday, June 6, 2011
Mendeley , a free reference manager that helps researchers organize and discover research articles, has announced a prize of $10,001 for the best new open source application to use with their large crowd-sourced open database of research papers. Mendeley, whose database includes 70 million document.. .. read more..
Study Finds Open Access Manuscripts ‘Good Enough\' Without Copyediting
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
A recent study that assessed the impact of the publisher\'s copyediting on open access manuscripts of scholarly articles concludes that the manuscript versions “are probably ‘good enough’ for use by scholars … and by teachers.” Sanford Thatcher, Director Emeritus of Penn State University.. .. read more..
DSpace@MIT in the MIT Faculty Newsletter
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
DSpace@MIT is featured in the latest issue of the MIT Faculty Newsletter . Director of Libraries, Ann Wolpert, shares the latest facts and figures about MIT\'s growing digital repository. Did you know that collections in DSpace@MIT are accessed from nearly every country in the world at an average r.. .. read more..
Digital library partnership gives MIT access to additional online resources
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The MIT Libraries have recently joined HathiTrust , a partnership of over fifty academic libraries that share the ambitious goal of building a comprehensive digital library of their shared collections. Started in 2008, the HathiTrust digital library currently contains over 8.5 million digitized vol.. .. read more..
Change in IEEE Author Policy: Impact on MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
In January 2011, the IEEE changed a key author policy, discontinuing the right authors had to post the final published version of their IEEE articles on the web. This alters what authors can do with their work and how the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy can be implemented for these papers. The polic.. .. read more..
MIT Research Available Worldwide Through Faculty Open Access Policy
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Since its launch in October 2009 to support the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy , articles in the MIT Open Access Articles collection have been downloaded from nearly every country in the world. The collection now contains 2,500 articles, downloaded over 100,000 times, at a recent rate of over 13,00.. .. read more..
Libraries’ Fund Helps Bridge Key Barrier to Open Access Publishing
Friday, February 4, 2011
A large-scale survey of researchers across the globe has found that lack of funding is the most common reason authors do not publish in open access journals. While 89% of those surveyed believe open access publishing is a benefit to their field, 39% of authors who had not yet published open access .. .. read more..
Harvard and MIT Libraries Explore Far-Reaching Alliance
Friday, February 4, 2011
Hayden Library, MIT Widener Library, Harvard University New agreement reflects physical proximity, cross-registration, joint programs, and research affinities The Provosts of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have charged their respective library systems to expl.. .. read more..
MIT Press Supports the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
Thursday, January 13, 2011
The MIT Press , publisher of more than 30 scholarly journals, has confirmed that it fully supports the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy . “We are pleased to support this MIT faculty initiative and we appreciate the role of the MIT Libraries in making it happen,” said Ellen W. Faran, MIT Press Directo.. .. read more..
Two More Publishers Fully Cooperating With MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
Monday, November 15, 2010
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and Copernicus Publications have confirmed that they are fully cooperating with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy . Both the SEG (publisher of Geophysics and other journals, and Copernicus (open access publisher of Earth System Dynamics and other jour.. .. read more..
Join us for a discussion about libraries in the digital age Wed., 11/3
Monday, November 1, 2010
Date: Wednesday, November 03 2010, 6:30pm - 8:30pm Location: Killian Hall MIT Room 14W-111 Registration: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=48142&groupID=146 Physical/Virtual: MIT Libraries in the Digital Age , a program sponsored by the MIT Alumni Club of Boston , will featu.. .. read more..
Support for Open Access Publishing from MIT Libraries
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The MIT Libraries provide support for MIT authors who wish to publish their work openly, with no barriers to access for readers from anywhere in the world. The newly redesigned scholarly publishing website provides a summary of the specific Libraries-sponsored programs that support open access publ.. .. read more..
In The Open: MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
As reported today by the MIT News Office, a year after the MIT Libraries began implementing the faculty’s ground-breaking open access policy , nearly 2,000 scholarly articles are now freely available online, and the effort to democratize access to published research is gaining momentum inside the I.. .. read more..
Open Access Articles Collection: One Year Later
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
We are celebrating the one-year anniversary of the MIT Open Access Articles Collection . Since its launch in October, 2009, the collection housing the faculty\'s scholarly articles has steadily grown to include: Over 1900 articles downloaded more than 63,500 times Participation from at least 110 dif.. .. read more..
First Use of New Open Access Publishing Fund for MIT Faculty
Monday, October 18, 2010
Earlier this year the MIT Libraries established a special fund, the MIT Open Access Article Publication Subvention Fund (OAAPSF), to support equity in open access publication by providing funding to MIT authors who might not otherwise be able to cover publication fees. A subsidy of up to $1,000 per.. .. read more..