Institute announces new open access policy for all MIT authors
Thanks to the efforts of Cara Manning PhD ’16, the MIT Libraries, and many others across the Institute, MIT is launching a new way for authors of scholarly articles to legally hold onto rights to reuse and post their articles, and for others to more easily build on that work. As of this month, all MIT authors, including students, postdocs, and staff, can opt in to an open access license. In the summer of 2015, Manning was an MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) graduate student submitting her first journal article to publishers. Her research funder expected her to make the details of the technology she developed freely available. Manning expected this, too. She had long shared her work: At the end of a summer of undergraduate research at Woods Hole, she sent all of her WHOI colleagues the code she’d devised for calibrating mass spectrometer data. “I’d run into people at...