The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has confirmed its full cooperation with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. President Chris Earnshaw wishes MIT success with the policy and says that the IET “applauds” it.
MIT authors therefore do not need to provide an amendment to the IET publication agreement or take any other special action [...]
Three open access publishers, BioMed Central, Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Beilstein-Institut, are fully cooperating with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. MIT authors do not need to provide an amendment to the publication agreements or take any other special action in order to publish with them under the MIT policy. [...]
Two more society publishers have confirmed cooperation with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy: The American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Optical Society of America (OSA). MIT authors do not need to provide an amendment to the AMS or OSA publication agreements or take any other special action in order to work with these publishers [...]
The fall 2009 issue of What’s the Score? the newsletter of the Lewis Music Library is now available. The web version is online and print copies are available on the front counter in the library (Bldg. 14E-109).
Read about library activities and projects, and don’t miss the ever-popular bad music jokes!
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Vacuum Society (AVS) have confirmed that they are fully cooperating with the new MIT Faculty Open Access Policy. This policy, established by the faculty on March 18, 2009, makes the faculty’s scholarly articles openly available on the web.
MIT authors do not need to prepare an [...]
A new collection of scholarly articles by MIT authors is openly available to the world today through MIT’s research repository DSpace@MIT. The launch of the “MIT Open Access Articles” collection coincides with International Open Access Week to reflect the spirit of an MIT faculty policy established in March 2009.
The policy affirms the faculty’s commitment [...]
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a national lab sponsored by the National Science Foundation, has just announced an Open Access policy that requires that all peer-reviewed research published by its scientists and staff be made publicly available online.
NCAR is the first of the NSF’s Federally Funded Research and Development Centers to adopt an [...]
Learn about ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), the world’s largest archive of research data for the social sciences. Next week (Oct 5-9, 2009), ICPSR will be broadcasting live free webinars to help you understand and utilize its many data resources. Topics covered include:
Data on minority populations
Graphing quantitative data & Web 2.0 [...]
Many of the services featured on the MIT Libraries’ web site are available from a mobile phone on the MIT Mobile Web.
To get to the MIT Libraries’ mobile site, visit http://m.mit.edu from your mobile device’s web browser.
The site is currently optimized for iPhones. In the future, we plan to create versions optimized for [...]
MIT joined four other universities in launching a new “Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity” on Monday September 15, 2009. The goal of the compact, according to its author, is to allow “the two journal publishing systems to compete on a more level playing field” by providing “equitable support for the processing-fee business model for [...]
There are now more reasons to come study in the Lewis Music Library! This summer some of the listening carrels on the mezzanine were removed to make room for four large study tables. The Music and Theater Arts Section has provided two iMac computers with music software — they have Finale notation software now, and [...]
The MIT Libraries will no longer be hosting book sales due to changes in our Gifts Program. We’d like to thank all former patrons for your support.
If you are interested in learning of other ways to support the Libraries please see the MIT Libraries Giving web site.
Good news… One of MIT’s favorite databases just got better!
The MIT Libraries have recently purchased more access to Web of Science, increasing coverage by 73 years. You’ll now be able to search:
Science Citation Index: 1900 – present
Social Sciences Citation Index: 1956 – present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index: 1975 – present
In addition to [...]
We are happy to announce that Rotch Library has a new web site! http://libraries.mit.edu/rotch
One of our primary goals was to make the site more visually appealing, as well as more user-friendly.
Some new features:
a slideshow on the home page (powered by Slideshow Pro)
a list of exhibits with sample images
quick links to our Research Guides
a [...]
Good news! Full text of thousands of dissertations and theses from most North American and selected worldwide universities are now available through Proquest’s Dissertations and Theses database:
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/dissertations
Before 1997, many theses will only have abstracts, but the full text collection is growing continuously.
Need an MIT thesis?
MIT dissertations and theses are NOT included in the ProQuest [...]
The renovation of Dewey Library has created many new group study rooms which now can be reserved using an electronic room reservation system. The rooms are:
E53-208 & 218 (large group rooms) : capacity 12 people in each room
E53-201 & 223 (medium group rooms) : capacity 10 people
E53-231, 237, 238, 296, and 298 (small group rooms) [...]
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Monday, July 6 and Monday, July 20, 12pm – 1pm
Find out where Aero/Astro materials are now located. This session will highlight the various Aero/Astro collections and how to access them.
Contact Barbara Williams with any questions.
Full schedule of JulyAP 2009 workshops
The July Object of the Month of the Institute Archives and Special Collections celebrates the transfer of the Project Whirlwind records from the MITRE Corporation to MIT. The Project Whirlwind collection is a compilation of records of the pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s. Whirlwind was developed as part [...]
“Clean Power: Building a New Clean Energy Economy”
Did you miss it when it was here on April 13th, 2009? Well, not too worry, AMPS captured it and you can watch the video at your leisure. Of course, you’ll probably want to read all about it as well, so check out the great article by the [...]
Ever wondered what the most popular journals at MIT are? Here are the numbers!
We subscribe to thousands more – search Vera to find them all!
Journal Title
Article Downloads in 2008
Nature, Nature News
168,539
Science
142,443
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS
83,030
Journal of the American Chemical Society
70,097
Cell
48,940
Journal of Biological Chemistry
47,876
Journal of Neuroscience
28,425
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
27,792
Applied Physics [...]
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