MIT faculty open access to their scholarly articles

[coendou]

The faculty of MIT voted unanimously to require publishers to allow open dissemination of their articles:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html

Comments

[canadianstudies]

All this is, really, is mandatory deposit in an institutional repository (which faculty at various universities have been doing for years, anyway!). A step forward? Definitely. A retooling of academic publishing? Sadly, not even close.

[sensaes]

Two?

[chasbrown]

That's all fine and dandy, but who is gonna pay my page charges and the extra bux for openaccess?

[emperor]

The Wellcome Trust in the UK fund these sort of things (my institution has a fund provided by the WT)

[dreadpirateange]

I'm excited!

[vlion]

I do like this idea(poor grad student likes free stuff!), but I wonder how good the review process is.

[coendou]

What review process? The journals will still do their normal review, I assume. The things put in the MIT repository aren't being "published" there, they'd still be published in the journals they were published in, they'll just be freely available in this database.