Author: Katharine Dunn
OA research in the news: Rewriting fearful memories
Sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder sometimes undergo a treatment in which they re-experience a fearful memory in a safe place, with the hope that...
IAP prize opportunity for students!
There are still spots open for the Libraries’ “Fair Use & Images: Quiz Tool Beta Test” IAP session on January 30th at 12 pm,...
OA research in the news: Medicaid increases visits to the ER
A study coauthored by MIT economics professor Amy Finkelstein shows that newly health-insured adults are more likely to visit emergency rooms than their uninsured...
OA research in the news: Kastner to be nominated to DOE
Last month, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Marc Kastner, dean of MIT’s School of Science, to head the Department of Energy’s Office...
OA research in the news: Hard math for grade schoolers
After a couple of years of coaching his daughter’s middle-school math team, MIT economist Glenn Ellison compiled his notes into a self-published book, Hard...
OA research in the news: New way to monitor induced-coma patients
Brain injury patients are sometimes deliberately placed in a coma with anesthesia drugs to allow swelling to go down and their brains to heal....
OA research in the news: Nanoparticles attack aggressive tumors
MIT chemical engineers have developed a new treatment for an aggressive form of breast cancer whose tumors resist chemotherapy drugs. Led by David H....
MIT students engage with open access at Libraries event
Last Wednesday, more than 30 MIT students and researchers stopped by the Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing table in Lobby 10 set up...
Praise for MIT open access articles
More reasons celebrate International Open Access Week, October 21–25 The thank-you note arrived with language echoing the voices of many other readers of MIT...