[LINK] more about open info access - MIT takes the pledge

[Jan Whitaker]

Death Metal writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "If there 
were any doubt that open access publishing was setting off a bit of a 
power struggle, a decision made last week by the MIT faculty should 
put it to rest. Although most commercial academic publishers require 
that the authors of the works they publish sign all copyrights over 
to the journal, Congress recently mandated that all researchers 
funded by the National Institutes of Health retain the right to 
freely distribute their works one year after publication (several 
foundations have similar requirements). Since then, some publishers 
started fighting the trend, and a few members of Congress are 
reconsidering the mandate. Now, in a move that will undoubtedly 
redraw the battle lines, the faculty of MIT have unanimously voted to 
make any publications they produce open access."

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