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MIT Faculty Open Access Policy turns six: readers around the world benefit
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MIT Faculty Open Access Policy turns six: readers around the world benefit | MIT Libraries News
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The MIT Faculty Open Access Policy was adopted by the faculty in March 2009, to share the faculty’s scholarly articles
as widely as possible.
Since establishing the policy, more than 16,000 articles have been made openly available in the Open Access Articles
Collection in MIT’s repository DSpace@MIT. Downloads routinely reach over 90,000 per month, with readers from all
across the globe as is apparent from the map in the new download statistics service, oastats:
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MIT Faculty Open Access Policy turns six:
readers around the world benefit
By Ellen Duranceau on March 20, 2015 in Scholarly communication
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