{"id":1835,"date":"2016-04-22T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T18:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries-test.mit.edu\/scholarly\/?page_id=1835"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:38:36","slug":"mit-open-access","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/mit-open-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Open access policies at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2009, MIT faculty passed one of the country&#8217;s first open access policies; the policy covers their scholarly articles by default.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 2017, all MIT authors, including students, postdocs, and staff, can <a href=\"\/forms-private\/mit-authors-opt-in-open-access-license\/\">&#8220;opt-in&#8221; to an open access license<\/a>. See below for information on how to deposit a paper, get download statistics on your papers, or opt out of the policy. Authors covered by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/oapolicy\">MIT faculty open access policy<\/a>\u00a0do not need to sign this license.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/scholarly\/mit-open-access\/open-access-policy\/\">Read the 2009 MIT faculty OA policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/opt-in-license\">Learn about &amp; sign the MIT authors&#8217; opt-in OA license<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/scholarly\/mit-open-access\/faq-on-the-oa-policy\/\">Read our FAQ on MIT&#8217;s faculty OA policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/forms-mit\/opt-out.html\">Opt out of MIT&#8217;s OA policies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/scholarly\/publishing\/oa-publishing-support\/\">Find support for open access publishing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/mit-open-access\/research-funders\/\">Learn about research funder requirements for public access to articles and data<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2009, MIT faculty passed one of the country&#8217;s first open access policies; the policy covers their scholarly articles by default. As of April 2017, all MIT authors, including students, postdocs, and staff, can &#8220;opt-in&#8221; to an open access license. See below for information on how to deposit a paper, get download statistics on your papers, or opt out of the policy. Authors covered by the\u00a0MIT faculty open access policy\u00a0do not need to sign this license. Read the 2009 MIT faculty OA policy Learn about &amp; sign the MIT authors&#8217; opt-in OA license Read our FAQ on MIT&#8217;s faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1835","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1835\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}