{"id":38723,"date":"2024-03-18T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=38723"},"modified":"2024-05-09T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:23:45","slug":"happy-anniversary-mit-faculty-open-access-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/happy-anniversary-mit-faculty-open-access-policy\/38723\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy anniversary, MIT faculty open access policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38732\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/15th-Anniversary-3-812x1024.png\" alt=\"Visual representation of data points related to 15 years of OA at MIT\" width=\"450\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/15th-Anniversary-3-812x1024.png 812w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/15th-Anniversary-3-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/15th-Anniversary-3-768x968.png 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/15th-Anniversary-3-624x787.png 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/03\/15th-Anniversary-3.png 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>On March 18, 2009, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/fnl\/volume\/214\/abelson_wolpert.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MIT faculty unanimously approved an open access policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the first institute-wide one of its kind in the country. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/mit-open-access\/open-access-policy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OA policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> allows faculty to hold onto rights to openly share and reuse their scholarly papers, and to let others freely build on that work. (An <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/mit-open-access\/opt-in-oa-license\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">opt-in version<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the faculty policy launched in 2017, giving students, postdocs, researchers, and staff the same means to retain rights in their publications.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifteen years on, the open access landscape includes much more than university OA policies, and the MIT Libraries continues to be a leader. In 2019, the Libraries developed a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/framework\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">principle-based framework<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to guide negotiations with scholarly publishers. Goals include protecting researchers\u2019 rights to their scholarship and working with publishers to find equitable and sustainable publishing models. We\u2019ve now <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/oa-publishing-support\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">signed large-scale agreements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with seven publishers. The Libraries also funds <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/oa-publishing-support\/open-access-publishing-fund\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">individual articles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/open-monographs-fund-is-a-success-in-its-first-year\/38305\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">monographs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and we\u2019ve joined others in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyrasis.org\/content\/Pages\/oacip.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">collectively funding open access journals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that charge neither subscription nor publishing fees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The goal of the 2009 MIT OA policy was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">access <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to scholarship. And though the open movement now addresses broader issues around equity, quality, sustainability of research, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/promotion-tenure-openscholarship\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">skewed incentive structures<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that underlie academic advancement, access is still an important part of open science and scholarship. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So happy 15th anniversary, MIT faculty open access policy! And thank you for helping MIT authors share their articles with the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>15 Years of OA at MIT<br \/>\n<\/strong>March 2024<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>51,693: Number of papers in the open access collection of DSpace<\/li>\n<li>Physics: Department with the most papers in the OA collection (7,881)<\/li>\n<li>25.8 million: Total downloads of articles in the OA collection since 2009<\/li>\n<li>Recent reader comment: &#8220;I&#8217;m writing my thesis, and my university can&#8217;t buy access to all the databases, so the open access content is priceless.&#8221; &#8211; PhD student, Poland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 18, 2009, MIT faculty unanimously approved an open access policy, the first institute-wide one of its kind in the country. The OA policy allows faculty to hold onto rights to openly share and reuse their scholarly papers, and to let others freely build on that work. (An opt-in version of the faculty policy launched in 2017, giving students, postdocs, researchers, and staff the same means to retain rights in their publications.) Fifteen years on, the open access landscape includes much more than university OA policies, and the MIT Libraries continues to be a leader. In 2019, the Libraries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"subtitle":"15 years on, OA grows and expands at MIT and beyond","is_event":false,"calendar_url":"","calendar_id":"","calendar_image":"","pauthor":"","urgent":false,"notes":"I think the graphic needs an outline around it, but I don't know ow to do that... 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