How MIT copes without Elsevier

[brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org]

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%....

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@brewsterkahle

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

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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

[temptoetiam@octodon.social]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @brewsterkahle
Doesn't "finding alternative means of access to needed research without an Elsevier subscription" also include individual paper purchases?

[risottobias@tech.lgbt]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @brewsterkahle I think the point is not to buy through an expensive middle-man and eventually un-addict themselves to restricted publishing...