MIT voted unanimously to make all of their scholarly articles available free to the public online!
MIT is stepping to the front by making their scholarly articles available to the public. They will be available through an open source platform DSpace. See the article in Campus Technology News Update.
I like this quote from Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ad chair of the Ad-Hoc Faculty Committee on Open Access Publishing:
“Scholarly publishing has so far been based purely on contracts between publishers and individual faculty authors.In that system, faculty members and their institutions are powerless. This resolution changes that by creating a role in the publishing process for the faculty as a whole, not just as isolated individuals.”
March 9th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
MIT is taking the giant step towards narrowing the global achievement gap (see Tony Wagner’s book, “The Global Achievement Gap”) The videos from MIT World worth watching are “The World Is Flat” and the “The World is Flat, 3.0″ by Thomas Friedman (2007 and 2005) - Friedman describes, the world began to shrink and flatten, under the influence of digital interconnectivity. Elaborating on his World is Flat thesis, Friedman describes how this new global order puts creative, entrepreneurial individuals in the best position to succeed in the 21st century.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/searches?term=friedman
October 6th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
This is terrific! can’t wait to see more.
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May 15th, 2011 at 3:55 am
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December 17th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
That is a step in the right direction, didn’t knew it until now.