[TOS] Fwd: [OSS Watch] MIT intends to retain rights to release publications as open access

[Ross Gardler]

FYI - MIT may be a good pressure point for an open access, open source
journal. See below.

Ross


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Lee <steve.lee at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2009/3/25
Subject: Re: [OSS Watch] MIT intends to retain rights to release
publications as open access
To: oss-watch at maillist.ox.ac.uk


2009/3/25 Amir Nettler <amir.nettler at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk>:
> Interesting article about MIT having decided to release their own publications
> as open access (or, at least, make this the default position):
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/mit-to-make-all-faculty-publications-open-access.ars

Ewan McIntosh in his closing key note raised the point/challenge that
if academia freely gave away publications then they would save a very
large cash figure and could use that for research.

The podcast should be here
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/03/podcast75ewanmcintosh.aspx

Steve

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