Author: Katharine Dunn
Open access downloads: August 2016
The Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT houses scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy or publisher agreements. Each month we highlight...
New milestone for MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
MIT has reached a new open access milestone: 44 percent of faculty members’ articles published since the OA policy passed in 2009 are now...
Open access downloads: July 2016
The Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT houses scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy or publisher agreements. Each month we highlight...
OA research in the news: MIT scientists ain’t afraid of no ghost
Several MIT researchers had a hand in boosting the “geek cred” of characters in this summer’s Ghostbusters reboot. Physics faculty members Janet Conrad and...
Open access downloads: June 2016
The Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT houses scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy or publisher agreements. Each...
OA research in the news: Why women leave engineering
Studies show that engineering is the most gender-segregated of all science and technology fields, from college classes to the workplace. Explanations for this tend to...
Open access downloads: May 2016
This month we’re launching a new feature: An infographic with monthly statistics from the Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT. The OA collection houses scholarly articles...
OA research in the news: A cheap, fast test for the Zika virus
Researchers at MIT and other universities have developed a cheap, fast test to diagnose the Zika virus, which is spread by infected mosquitoes and...
OA research in the news: New website turns data into knowledge
In 2013, federal, state, and local governments were required to make their data openly available. More than 195,000 datasets on property values, family incomes, and many...