Re:MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate
by lutorm on Thursday March 19, 2009 @11:41PM
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If those IEEE journals require that copyright be signed over to them without granting permission to the authors to make available their work, I don't see how they can publish in them.
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Re:MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate
by silentOpen on Friday March 20, 2009 @01:37AM
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The policy on which the MIT faculty voted allows opt-out provided the author(s) provide a reason. The new policy is a great step for MIT and the research community as a whole but still requires MIT to stand up to journals who demand exclusive rights. It will be interesting to see how much backbone MIT asserts.
Re:MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate
by wheels on Friday March 20, 2009 @04:38AM
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It's nice that it's MIT though since they're one of the institutions with the academic weight that a journal wouldn't want to cut themselves off from the authors there.
That said, I suspect "open access" is to the traditional world what P2P is to the music industry: it's scary and presents a real threat to their livelihood.