MIT To Make All Faculty Publications Open Access

Death Metal writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "If there were any doubt that open access publishing was setting off a bit of a power struggle, a decision made last week by the MIT faculty should put it to rest. Although most commercial academic publishers require that the authors of the works they publish sign all copyrights over to the journal, Congress recently mandated that all researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health retain the right to freely distribute their works one year after publication (several foundations have similar requirements). Since then, some publishers started fighting the trend, and a few members of Congress are reconsidering the mandate. Now, in a move that will undoubtedly redraw the battle lines, the faculty of MIT have unanimously voted to make any publications they produce open access."

Comments

Re:Hats of for MIT

[Anonymous Coward]

this is amazing, who would have thought that... *gasp* one might want so called "true" knowledge... shared?

thank goodness for this, every journal should be free

Re:Hats of for MIT

[jimdouglass]

I agree completely. On the other hand that school just down the Charles river from MIT ...harvard? Now there is an institution whose education is HIGHLY overrated. Jim in Kansas