The fac­ulty at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (MIT) has announced that a year after the fac­ulty adopted a pol­icy to open access to their schol­arly arti­cles, many schol­arly pub­lish­ers have con­firmed their sup­port. More than 850 arti­cles have been added to the MIT Open Access arti­cles col­lec­tion in the MIT Libraries’ dig­i­tal repos­i­tory, DSpace@MIT, where they are freely avail­able on the web.

Pub­lish­ers who are sup­port­ing the MIT pol­icy include Amer­i­can Eco­nomic Asso­ci­a­tion, Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Physics, Amer­i­can Math­e­mat­i­cal Soci­ety, Beilstein-Institut, Bio­Med Cen­tral, Hin­dawi Pub­lish­ing, The Insti­tu­tion of Engi­neer­ing and Tech­nol­ogy (IET), The Opti­cal Soci­ety of Amer­ica (OSA), Pub­lic Library of Sci­ence (PLoS) and the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia Press, among oth­ers. Many of these pub­lish­ers allow the MIT Libraries to cap­ture copies of the final pub­lished PDF for deposit, so that authors do not need to take any action in order to have their arti­cles openly accessible.

In a move aimed at broad­en­ing access to the institution’s research and schol­ar­ship, MIT fac­ulty, in March 2009, voted to make their schol­arly arti­cles avail­able to the pub­lic for free and open access on the web. The MIT Libraries, with the guid­ance of the Fac­ulty Com­mit­tee on the Library Sys­tem, con­tinue to work with MIT fac­ulty to help fur­ther the policy’s goal of broad­en­ing access to MIT’s research and scholarship.

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