{"id":3481,"date":"2018-09-07T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T19:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2018-09-07T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T19:17:16","slug":"spotlight-mit-open-access-task-force-releases-white-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/2018\/spotlight-mit-open-access-task-force-releases-white-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: MIT Open Access Task Force releases white paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The ad hoc task force on open access to MIT\u2019s research has released\u00a0\u201cOpen Access at MIT and Beyond:\u00a0A White Paper of the MIT\u00a0Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research<\/a>,\u201d 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\u2019s mission to share its knowledge with the world.<\/p>\n

Co-chaired by Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Hal Abelson and Director of Libraries Chris Bourg, the task force was\u00a0convened<\/a>\u00a0in July 2017 by Provost Martin Schmidt, in consultation with the vice president for research, the chair of the faculty, and the director of the libraries. The group was charged with exploring actions MIT should undertake to \u201cfurther the Institute\u2019s mission of disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MIT community has long been at the forefront of sharing knowledge with the world, whether through OpenCourseWare or our campus-wide faculty open access policy,\u201d says Chris Bourg. \u201cThe task force is looking to see how we can expand that commitment even further, considering how to share not only scholarly articles and books, but also data, educational materials, code, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

The MIT community is invited to offer ideas of new, updated, or revised policies or practices that might further the sharing of the Institute\u2019s research and scholarship as widely as possible. Ideas can be submitted via the\u00a0task force idea bank<\/a>,\u00a0at upcoming community forums (details forthcoming), or\u00a0via email to the task force<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ad hoc task force on open access to MIT\u2019s research has released \u201cOpen Access at MIT and Beyond:\u00a0A White Paper of the MIT\u00a0Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 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\u2019s mission to share its knowledge with the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more about the paper in the MIT News<\/a>. The report is available as a PDF on the OA task force website<\/a>, and in HTML on PubPub<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}