Ripple Effect | MIT Libraries News

"Gravitational-wave physics and the LIGO project, operated by MIT and CalTech, have been a focus of research at MIT for more than 40 years. With research, of course, there are publications. That’s where the MIT Libraries come in.

Thanks to an agreement with the American Physical Society, the publisher of the discovery paper, the Libraries deposited the article in the Open Access Collection of the DSpace@MIT repository the day of the announcement, February 11. LIGO researchers had also paid to release the article under a Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to download, share, or build on the work."