Open access at MIT
by tzvicky
The Wired just informed that MIT decided to promote open access to the papers published by its faculty members (link). It is not a new move, NIH did it before, however, with some limitations (only for papers more than 12 month old). As I understand, MIT scientists should publish their new papers on the web – not only for internal but also for a world-wide use. It is still unclear for me if this decision regards preprint versions or already peer-revieved and corrected papers. Some journals (Nature, for instance) are quite sensitive in this matter therefore MIT will allow to keep some special (whatever it means) papers to remain ‘closed’. I am personally thinking what I should put on my ‘Publication’ page – I have there DOI links to the journals but I am planning to add at least manuscript versions of my papers. Most people do it this way, I mean just no-pear-reviewed manuscripts, but recently I found some personal pages with full pdf-s taken from journals. Other question, should I use some preprint server (Nature has offered one, I was writing about it – link) or do it myself. Unfortunately, arXiv has some limitations for me (preprints need to be formally accepted there and also this is a physical site). Anyway, I will have to enhance my ‘Publications’ page soon.
