Open Access Week is October 22-28!

To celebrate, we’re giving away prizes to members of the MIT community who sign the  opt-in open access license during OA week. Stop by the Libraries’s table in Lobby 10 on Monday, October 22, to learn more.

The ad hoc task force on open access to MIT’s research has released “Open Access at MIT and Beyond: A White Paper of the MIT Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research,”  which examines efforts to make research and scholarship openly and freely available. The white paper provides a backdrop to the ongoing work of the task force: identifying new, updated, or revised open access policies and practices that might advance the Institute’s mission to share its knowledge with the world. 

Read more about the paper in the MIT News. The report is available as a PDF on the OA task force website, and in HTML on PubPub. 

The MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry have signed a groundbreaking license agreement that incorporates elements of a traditional subscription purchase and open access to scholarly articles. The experimental two-year agreement is seen as an important step on the path toward making more research freely and openly available to the world. More information on how it works for authors.

In celebration of Fair Use Week, the MIT Libraries are hosting two events:

• Fair use game show
  February 27, 3-4pm, 3-133.
  Join us for food, fair use, and fun! Expert panelists will make arguments for and against fair use and the audience will vote: Fair use or not? Refreshments provided.
• Make a fair use kaleidocycle
  February 28, 10am–3pm, Lobby 10.
  We’re hosting a table where we’ll chat about fair use and give away handy fair use kaleidocycles that you can make at the table or take home. (See how it works here, or download the template).

IAP 2018: Join us for lunch and sessions on copyright, patents, data privacy, tech transfer, and more. Presented by the MIT Libraries and the MIT Technology Licensing Office.

Sign MIT’s new open access license and win prizes!

This year we’re promoting the new opt-in open access license, a tool you can use to legally hold onto rights to share and reuse your work. If you sign the license between October 23-29, you’ll be entered to win one of ten $100 gift certificates to the MIT Press Bookstore. If you’ve already signed, you’ll be entered to win a limited edition t-shirt. #ioptedin

MIT professor emeritus Rainer Weiss has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics along with Caltech colleagues Barry Barish and Kip Thorne, for their “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”

Check out the discovery paper as well as open access resources on LIGO & gravitational waves: an annotated collection of technical reports, peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, and theses, freely available in the DSpace@MIT repository, that describe work done at MIT, from the earliest science to post-detection research.

Visit with therapy dogs in Hayden Event date October 6, 2017, 2 – 3:30 pm We are continuing Furry First Fridays, the popular therapy dogs program, for the spring term. On the first Fridays in October (the 6th) and November (the 3rd), 2-3:30 pm, you can stop by Hayden Library to spend some time with […]