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It’s here! In celebration of the festiveness of the winter season, the Lewis Music Library has curated our 3rd Annual Lewis Music Library Holiday Playlists! From Darlene Love to Sufjan Stevens, Dolly Parton to Snoop Dogg, Ismael Rivera to Charles Ives, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Below are links to access the holiday pop playlist on both Apple Music and Spotify. Apple Music Spotify  But wait, there’s more! We’ve also curated a second playlist of “classical” holiday favorites, available on the streaming media database Naxos Music. This playlist offers more “traditional” seaso ..read more

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Reposted from the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation The 13 Ivy Plus libraries are both surprised by and united in opposition to the zero embargo option announced by the American Chemical Society (ACS) on 21 September 2023. This unexpected new charge is a clear challenge to both authors’ rights and the developing scholarly communications ecosystem. According to this policy, an Article Development Charge (ADC) of $2,500 would be charged to authors who seek to retain and exercise the right to deposit a pre-publication version of their article in an open repository once their manuscript enters the ..read more

The Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through open access policies at MIT or publisher agreements. Each month we highlight the month’s download numbers and a few of the most-downloaded articles in the collection, and we feature stats and comments from a particular country. See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center. Top downloaded articles for October: Statistics of Extreme Events in Fluid Flows and Waves, Themistoklis P. Sapsis Airline-driven grou ..read more

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In celebration of International Open Access Week, we’re running a series of stories about open scholarship that prioritizes community-run publishing and infrastructure. Today’s piece is written by Katharine Dunn, scholarly communications librarian in the Libraries. “Computer books,” made by AI on Canva In 2022, with generous support from the Office of the Provost, the MIT Libraries launched an Open Monograph Fund to support MIT authors whose publishers require a subvention to offset the costs of producing OA scholarly monographs. The fund was a huge success in its first year: We approved fun ..read more

In celebration of International Open Access Week, we’re running a series of stories about open scholarship that prioritizes community-run publishing and infrastructure. Today’s piece is written by Sadie Roosa, collections strategist for repository services in the Libraries. DSpace, the open source and open access digital repository co-created by MIT developers in 2002, is an integral part of MIT’s efforts to make its researchers’ own scholarship freely and openly available to anyone in the world.  On May 9, 2002, staff from MIT’s Sociotechnical Systems Research Center deposited DSpace@MIT ..read more

In celebration of International Open Access Week, we’re running a series of stories about open scholarship that prioritizes community-run publishing and infrastructure. Today’s piece is written by Amy Nurnberger, program head for MIT Libraries Data Management Services.  Come to the Hayden Library (The Nexus, 14S-130) October 24 at 3 pm to celebrate the 2023 Open Data Prize winners. More info here Congratulations! You’ve completed your research and even published your article open access, using some of the great resources from the MIT Libraries. You are making great strides in establishing ..read more