Reading list

MIT specific information

Prior MIT committees and their efforts

• MIT Faculty Vote to Make Their Articles Openly Available by Hal Abelson and Ann Wolpert, MIT Faculty Newsletter, March 2009
• MIT Faculty Open Access to Their Scholarly Articles, MIT News, March 2009

MIT Open Access policies

• MIT's faculty open access policy
• MIT's opt-in open access policy for authors who are not faculty
• Open access policies at MIT

Testimony of Maria Zuber

• Future Opportunities and Challenges for Science 2018 testimony of Maria Zuber, Chair of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation. Note: See pages 5-7 on open access to publications (including NSF’s current public access policy) and data.

MIT’s Future of Libraries Task Force

• Future of Libraries Task Force Preliminary Report (2017). Note: Recommendation 7 calls for creation of an open access task force.

On Open Access

• A beginner's guide to Open Access by Graham Steel and David Kernohan, wonkhe.com, August 2017
• Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? by Stephen Buranyi, The Guardian, June 2017
• SPARC resources:The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is a global coalition "committed to making open the default for research and education." Its members are universities, including MIT. This list of key resources includes the Open Access Spectrum Evaluation Tool, which scores journals' degree of openness and provides key articles and news. Also at their website is a list of open access policies that SPARC advocates for, offering a good overview of important issues in the OA landscape.
• Open Access by Peter Suber: PDF of 2012 MIT Press book on open access (freely downloadable)
• Thinking about prestige, quality, and open access by Peter Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2008
• Scholarly Societies and the Newspaper Problem by David Lewis, 2018. This paper looks at the current economic model of large scholarly societies.
• University Librarian at UC Davis (formerly at MIT) reports on how University of California’s break with the biggest academic publisher relates to the aim of open access to research, March 2019

Federal research funder public access policies

• Summary on Libraries' web site

Congress / Bills supporting open access

• Statement in support of the bill FASTR: Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (S.1701, H.R.3427), which was recently reintroduced in both houses of Congress.

Open Access policies at other universities

• List of all open access repository policies (ROARMAP)
• List of North American campus policies modeled on MIT/Harvard's

Open Educational Resources

• Article by former MIT President Chuck Vest on open education
• Explanation of OER by UMass Amherst
• MIT Open Learning

Open Data

• AAU-APLU Public Access Working Group Report and Recommendations