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Podcasts Professor George Stiny on "The Secret Formula is this: Copy!" Download the audio file. (8:43 minutes) More info Professor Craig Carter on the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. Download the audio file. (5:32 minutes) More info Professor JoAnne Yates on Making MIT Sloan Teaching Materials Openly Available. Download the audio file. (20:56 minutes; 19MB) More info MacKenzie Smith on EndNote vs. Zotero: the Business End of Citation Management Software. Download the audio file. (9:12 minutes; 8.4MB) More info Gari Clifford on Choosing Open Publication Models that Support Authors and Readers. Download the audio file. (18:58 minutes; 17 MB) More info Professor Dan Ariely on his book Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions. Download the audio file. (20:02 minutes; 18.4 MB) More info Professor George Stiny on the “copy” in copyright. Download the audio file. (14:42 minutes; 13.5 MB) More info Professor Hal Abelson on Supporting Our Intellectual Commons. Download the audio file. (22:53 minutes; 21 MB) More info Professor John H. Lienhard V on making his text book open access. Download the audio file. (15:10 minutes; 11.1 MB) More info Science Commons' John Wilbanks, on Barriers to the Flow of Scientific Knowledge. Download the audio file. (14:35 minutes; 13.9MB) More info Tracy Gabridge on Assessing the Vulnerability of Conference Proceedings. Download the audio file (14:35 minutes; 10.2MB) More info Professor Kai von Fintel on the Launch of a New Open Access Journal in Linguistics. Download the audio file (11:11 minutes; 10.3MB) More info Professor Eric von Hippel on Openness, Innovation, and Scholarly Publishing. Download the audio file. (8:33 minutes) More info Anna Gold on Making a Difference: Pushing Back on DRM at MIT. Download the audio file. (8:18 minutes, 7.7 Mb) More info Steve Gass on Transforming Scientific Communication. Download the audio file. (6:27 minutes, 6MB) More info

Videos Open Access: A Conversation (58:10 Minutes) Professor Richard Holton, Chair of the MIT Faculty Open Access Working Group, and Peter Suber, author of the MIT Press book Open Access, discuss the significance of open access to research, and the impact of the MIT Open Access Policy. Moderated by Director of Libraries Ann Wolpert. MIT Faculty on Open Access (5:06 Minutes) MIT faculty share their thoughts on the evolution of scholarly publishing, and the goals and impact of the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. MIT Faculty Open Access Policy (2:53 minutes) Professor Hal Abelson speaks about the MIT Faculty Open Access policy. MIT Faculty Open Access Policy (1:56 minutes) Professor Richard Holton, Chair of the Faculty Committee on the Library System, speaks about the importance of the Policy and open access in a new video. Managing Copyright to Advance Research & Teaching (1:41:23 hours/minutes) Ann Wolpert, Director of the MIT Libraries, moderates a panel discussion on managing copyright in the digital age. A Window on Fair Use (9:39 minutes) Employ the concept of “Fair Use” under US copyright law to legally reuse copyrighted content without permission from the copyright holder. Publishing Smart Workshop (46:07 minutes) Geared for graduate students, addresses what copyright means to authors, how to assess publishers' policies, and how to use web-based tools that assess journal quality. Scholarly Publication & Copyright Part 1: Copyright Law & Publication (5:38) Part 2: Retaining Rights (9:46) Part 3: Publishing Through Open Access Channels (8:55)