MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have agreed to make available figures and text selections from any of the latter's over 2,000 journal titles for use on OCW.
Under the deal, select Elsevier content can now be included within the open access OCW course materials - to be freely downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license. The Elsevier content includes up to three figures (including tables and illustrations) per individual article (or ten per journal volume) and up to 100 words from a single text extract (or 300 words from a series of extracts).
This agreement is projected to significantly increase the richness of OCW materials, since many of the illustrations reduce the amount of time that professors, their staff and OCW staff would have otherwise spent searching and obtaining permissions for individual quotes and figures.
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