MIT Adopts World's 70th Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate

From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:44:45 -0400

             [With many thanks to Professor Hal Abelson for the
                                information]

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      OA Self-Archiving Policy: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
                                   (MIT) 

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MASSACHUSSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
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  Institution's/Department's OA Self-Archiving Policy

  MIT Faculty Open-Access Policy 

  Passed by Unanimous of the Faculty, March 18, 2009

  The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is
  committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and
  scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment,
  the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants
  to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nonexclusive
  permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to
  exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open
  dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to MIT a
  nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise
  any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her
  scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are
  not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. The
  policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the
  person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed
  before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the
  Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment
  agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or
  Provost's designate will waive application of the policy for a
  particular article upon written notification by the author, who
  informs MIT of the reason.

  To assist the Institute in distributing the scholarly articles, as
  of the date of publication, each Faculty member will make available
  an electronic copy of his or her final version of the article at no
  charge to a designated representative of the Provost's Office in
  appropriate formats (such as PDF) specified by the Provost's
  Office.


  The Provost's Office will make the scholarly article available to
  the public in an open- access repository. The Office of the
  Provost, in consultation with the Faculty Committee on the Library
  System will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving
  disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and
  recommending changes to the Faculty.

  The policy is to take effect immediately; it will be reviewed after
  five years by the Faculty Policy Committee, with a report presented
  to the Faculty. 

  The Faculty calls upon the Faculty Committee on the Library System
  to develop and monitor a plan for a service or mechanism that would
  render compliance with the policy as convenient for the faculty as
  possible. 
Received on Thu Mar 19 2009 - 09:45:17 GMT

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