Copyright & publishing

MIT & Elsevier

• Why MIT ended its contract with Elsevier + FAQs
• How to access Elsevier articles
• Elsevier fact sheet

Copyright

• Copyright FAQ
• Using copyrighted content
  Fair use, license agreements, using images & figures, and how to cite.
• Electronic course reserves guide
• Fair use and open resources for making your content available on a course site.
• Retaining rights when you get published
  Why and how to hold onto rights when signing publishing agreements
• Amend a publishing agreement
  Addenda that incorporate MIT’s OA policy or federal public access policies into an author agreement.
• Theses & copyright
  Using others’ and your own published work in your thesis & publisher policies related to theses.

Research

• How to find openly accessible articles
• APIs for scholarly resources
• Text and data mining at MIT

Publishing

• MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts
• Open access publishing support
  Find support for open access publishing, including the OA fund.
• Reusing figures from major publishers
  Libraries’ agreements with several publishers allow MIT authors to reuse content in their own work.