The MIT Libraries, together with the MIT Committee on the Library System and the Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research, announced that it has developed a principle-based framework to guide negotiations with scholarly publishers. The framework emerges directly from the core principles for open science and open scholarship articulated in the recommendations of the Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research, which released its final report to the MIT community on Oct. 17.
The framework affirms the overarching principle that control of scholarship and its dissemination should reside with scholars and their institutions. It aims to ensure that scholarly research outputs are openly and equitably available to the broadest possible audience, while also providing valued services to the MIT community.
In MIT’s model, institutions and scholars maintain the rights to share their work openly via institutional repositories, and publishers are paid for the services valued by authors and readers, such as curation and peer-review management.
The framework was developed by members of the Open Access Task Force, the Committee on the Library System, and MIT Libraries staff, and vetted by faculty groups across the Institute.
While MIT intends to rely on this framework as a guide for relationships with publishers regardless of the actions of any peer institutions or other organisations, institutions ranging from large research universities to liberal arts colleges have decided to endorse the framework in recognition of its potential to advance open scholarship and the public good.
A full list of endorsers is available at libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/framework. Additional institutions are also invited to add their endorsement on this page.
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