[All-postdocs] What WHOI and MIT Open Access policy changes mean for you!

[Julie van der Hoop]

You might have seen recent news that WHOI <http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170408/whoi-opens-locked-door-to-science-research> adopted an Open Access policy, and MIT expanded <http://news.mit.edu/2017/institute-announces-new-open-access-policy-all-mit-authors-0406> its Open Access policy to include all researchers (incl. postdocs), staff and students. This was largely an effort by Cara Manning, Open Access and Open Science hero*. 

What does this mean for you? You can freely (and legally) share your final, peer-reviewed papers by uploading them on WHOI or MIT servers. 

At WHOI: http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/whoi-open-access-policy
Host your articles in the Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOAS) <http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/whoas-repository-services>, WHOI's institutional repository (IR) maintained by the MBLWHOI Library. (It doesn’t have to be the pre-published version anymore! That’s the big difference here!)

At MIT: https://libraries.mit.edu/forms-mit/opt-in.html
Legally make your final, peer-reviewed manuscripts freely accessible through the open access repository DSpace at MIT <http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/49433>

ISN’T THAT AWESOME? Sign up, upload, post the links on your personal or lab website, and provide PDFs to anyone and everyone. Celebrate Cara’s dedication to this effort while doing so. 

Questions? contact whoas at whoi.edu or scholarlypub at mit.edu



*Cara gave a talk during Open Access week about the policy and her involvement, here: http://hdl.handle.net/1912/8471 <http://hdl.handle.net/1912/8471>

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Julie van der Hoop
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
Aarhus University, Aarhus DK




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