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 furry friends from Dog BONES: Therapy Dogs of Massachusetts. Dogs and their handlers will be outside the Hayden Library in the area near Killian Hall. No lines and no waiting! Furry First Fridays builds on the success of past therapy dog visits during final exams. […]

Records in the Open Access Articles collection in the DSpace@MIT repository now include ORCIDs—or Open Researcher Contributor Identifiers—for MIT authors who have the alphanumeric identifier attached to their names. Staff in the Libraries, who worked on the project between April and December 2016, also created an automatic process to add ORCIDS to new records as they enter the OA collection.

MIT has launched a new way for authors of scholarly articles to legally hold onto rights to reuse and post their articles, and for others to more easily build on that work. As of April 2017, all MIT authors, including students, postdocs, and staff, can opt in to an open access license.

Read the announcement from Maria Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research, and the backstory in the MIT News.

For students, faculty, and researchers, Fair Use Week (February 20-24) is reason to celebrate: fair use provides an essential safety valve that allows us to use copyrighted works without obtaining permission. Fair use is a remarkably short and comprehensible piece of copyright law that reflects the need for copyrighted works to be available for all to be used for “purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching… scholarship, or research.”   In celebration of Fair Use Week, the MIT Libraries are hosting two events: Innovation, creation, and copyright law: a conversation about legal services for MIT students. Panel discussion: February 21st, 12-1 […]