MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics with two colleagues for their “decisive contributions to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” died on August 25 at 92. In the early 1970s, Weiss developed the idea to use sensitive antennae to measure gravitational waves — ripples in space-time that Albert Einstein predicted in his 1915 general theory of relativity — and later became a founder of the LIGO project, which operates facilities at MIT and Caltech. A decade ago, in September 2015, LIGO made the first direct measurement […]

MIT has reached a new open access milestone: 46 percent of faculty members’ articles published since the faculty OA policy passed in 2009 are now being shared in the Open Access Articles Collection of DSpace@MIT.

As well, earlier this month, the MIT Libraries celebrated making live in DSpace the first paper to rely on rights retained under the new MIT authors’ opt-in open access license.

On June 1, the Laser Interferometry Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced its third detection 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.

MIT has associated ORCID identifiers with current scholars at MIT, including faculty, graduate students, postdocs, research staff, and instructional staff. Learn more about ORCIDs, including how to find and use yours.

Happy New Year! MIT’s IAP term is almost underway, and Libraries staff are offering several scholarly communications-related workshops and talks.

Please register and join us, or get in touch with any questions: scholarlypub@mit.edu.