Author: Katharine Dunn
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...
Electrochemical Society offers free credits to publish open access articles
The MIT Libraries now subscribe to ECS Plus, which includes access to all Electrochemical Society content and unlimited free credits to MIT authors who...
OA research in the news: Why Only Us?
Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist and co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, once said he was confused about language because humans didn’t need it....
USGS releases Public Access Plan
The U.S. Geological Survey recently released its Public Access Plan in compliance with the White House Directive. The plan, which takes effect on October...
MIT Libraries launch gravitational wave resource guide
Last week, moments after researchers in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves — the space-time ripples predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years...