Comments on: MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2009/03/19/mit-adopts-a-university-wide-open-access-mandate/ Promoting Free Software Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Indian T.v Serials http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2009/03/19/mit-adopts-a-university-wide-open-access-mandate/comment-page-1/#comment-7086 Indian T.v Serials Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:39:02 +0000 http://linuxbsdos.com/?p=1795#comment-7086 I’m not sure what this means on the ground. What about when a journal requires a professor from MIT to sign over copyright? Wouldn’t the journal’s policy supercede MIT’s open access policy? Are all faculty required to submit their pre-publication papers to MIT’s repository before sending them out to journals (when the faculty members still have the copyright)? How would they enforce a policy like that? Would journals be less likely to publish those papers if they are already, in a sense, published in MIT’s repository? I thought I knew a lot about open access and copyright, but I guess I don’t…this policy isn’t the least bit clear to me. Is the policy there to send a message to journals that they won’t get to publish anything by MIT faculty unless they allow a copy to be stored in the repository? I hope it works, if so. I’m not sure what this means on the ground. What about when a journal requires a professor from MIT to sign over copyright? Wouldn’t the journal’s policy supercede MIT’s open access policy? Are all faculty required to submit their pre-publication papers to MIT’s repository before sending them out to journals (when the faculty members still have the copyright)? How would they enforce a policy like that? Would journals be less likely to publish those papers if they are already, in a sense, published in MIT’s repository? I thought I knew a lot about open access and copyright, but I guess I don’t…this policy isn’t the least bit clear to me. Is the policy there to send a message to journals that they won’t get to publish anything by MIT faculty unless they allow a copy to be stored in the repository? I hope it works, if so.

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