In a new video, Professor Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and co-chair of the Ad-Hoc Faculty Committee on Open Access Publishing, speaks about the MIT Faculty Open Access policy.

The video is also available as a series of clips: on the Origin of the Policy, Why It’s Important, MIT Impact, Worldwide Impact, and Participation.

The video is being released for the celebration of International Open Access Week, which begins October 18, 2010, and in honor of the one-year anniversary of the Open Access Articles Collection in DSpace@MIT, which houses scholarly articles made available under the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy.

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