Reclaiming your copyright after 35 years: a new opportunity
Starting in 2013, authors began to have the ability to reclaim copyrights they transferred to a publisher in 1978 or later. Copyright law permits...
E-books to enhance professional development
NOTE: This news story is from 2014 – for more up-to-date info on our current e-book collections, please see our E-Books Guide. MIT...
Spring into IAPril classes and events!
Spring is finally here! While you wait for Mother Nature to cooperate, check out the April offerings from the MIT Libraries. Something for everyone!...
Preservation Week, April 29–May 1: Explore the art and science of preserving cultural heritage
Join us for a variety of events that highlight the importance of preserving cultural heritage materials during National Preservation Week. Tuesday, April 29th, starting...
Text-mining contract signed by Libraries offers computational access to Elsevier articles
The MIT Libraries have signed an agreement with Elsevier, the largest publisher of journal articles in the world, to allow members of the MIT...
Discovering the Libraries: Lewis Music Library
By MIT Libraries’ student blogger, Pri Tembhekar Hello everyone! This week’s post is about one of my favorite places to study–the Lewis Music Library. It...
Improving Water Quality in 19th Century Massachusetts
A recent MIT news spotlight on research for detecting bacteria brought to mind 19th century research on water quality in Massachusetts. In the 1880s...
Discovering the Libraries: Spring break at… the Libraries?
By MIT Libraries’ student blogger, Pri Tembhekar It’s time for spring break! That may imply running away from stacks of books as fast as possible...
OA research in the news: New evidence for the ‘bang’ of the Big Bang
This week, a team of astronomers announced the first “smoking gun” evidence of inflation, a theory of cosmology that describes the quick and violent...