Scholarly Communications Actions FY06

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Scholarly Communications Actions FY06

• MIT Libraries All-Staff Meeting
• January, 06

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Background Historical Issues Related to
Scholarly Publishing

• Rapid growth
• High prices
• High inflation
• Large Profits

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Background Issues related to Internet
Distribution

• Leased, not purchased
• Difficult pricing models
• Use restrictions

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Whats Wrong with this Picture?

• Technology that facilitates unfettered access

• Growing restrictions imposed by publishers

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Whats the Alternative?

• "Open Access" defines a movement that promotes
  free, unrestricted Internet access to the primary
  research literature as a public good.

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Goals for FY06

• Encourage PubMed Central deposit
• Enable retention of authors rights
• Expand understanding of issues
• Encourage DSpace deposit

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National Institutes of Health Request

• The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Policy on
  Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications
  Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (Public Access
  Policy), which took effect on May 2, 2005,
  requests and strongly encourages all
  investigators to make their NIH-funded
  peer-reviewed, author's final manuscript
  available to other researchers and the public
  through the NIH National Library of Medicine's
  (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) immediately after the
  final date of journal publication.

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Amendment to Publication Agreement

• To be Issued by MIT Intellectual Property
  Committee
• For use by MIT faculty and researchers
• Maintains authors rights for use in academic and
  professional activities
• Enables posting on web-sites (e.g. DSpace
  PubMed Central)
• Allows MIT to use for academic and professional
  activities

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MIT Players (or Partners)

• Vice-President for Research
• Libraries
• Provost
• Academic Council
• Intellectual Property Committee
• Faculty Committee on the Library System
• Chair of the Faculty
• Faculty Policy Committee
• Office of Sponsored Programs

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Actions for FY06

• Distribute Amendment January
• Meet with OSP January
• Present to Dept. Heads February
• Present to FPC February
• Meet with depts. esp. NIH
• principals March April
• Article in Faculty Newsletter March April
• Communications Forum March - April