Scholarly Publisher Contracts and New Benefits for MIT Authors - MIT Faculty Newsletter

"MIT has been using the Framework for Publisher Contracts to guide negotiations with scholarly publishers for more than two years. This principles-based framework aims to support the needs of scholars, reflect Institute values, and advance scholarship. In a short period of time, MIT has used the framework to reach several agreements with publishers that demonstrate the viability of our approach. We encourage MIT scholars to take advantage of the open access publishing benefits of these agreements.... Elsevier is the one major publisher that remains unwilling to produce a proposal for MIT that aligns with the Framework...."