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Brewster Kahle

How MIT copes without Elsevier

MIT leaders describe their experience of not renewing the largest journal contract as “overwhelmingly positive”.

“For MIT to continue to pay millions of dollars to corporations that lock up the scholarship that comes out of our own campus was just inconsistent with MIT’s history of supporting open education and research,” said Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at MIT.

...MIT Libraries estimates annual savings at more than 80%....

sparcopen.org/our-work/big-dea

25 August at 12:58 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
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OddOpinions5

@brewsterkahle

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isn't MIT being a bit of a freeloader here, as it uses ILL to get articles

?
MIT professors are, on avg, very well funded so they can afford personal subs

really, the experience at MIT should not be taken as something that necessarily goes for everyone else

25 August at 13:21 | Open on mas.to
Brewster Kahle

@failedLyndonLaRouchite

I don't think MIT is freeloading from an ILL perspective-- The @internetarchive does ILL exchanges with 400+ libraries including MIT. And while MIT has gotten lots from us over the years, it is not in the top 25 libraries requesting.

So I suspect they use ILL and document delivery services (big $/paper) it is just they don't requests that many papers.

But that is not good news, really, we need researchers learning from each other.

We need OPEN!

15 September at 20:12 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
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