Professor Carter speaks about the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy from his perspective as a member of the faculty committee that put the policy forward for a faculty vote in March of 2009. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons
Professor Yates explains why MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) is an open access site, what is innovative about its approach and content, and why it matters for business education. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology in the MIT Libraries, discusses the lawsuit that Thomson Reuters, owner of the proprietary bibliographic management software EndNote, has pursued against George Mason University and the Commonwealth of Virginia in relation to their open-source tool, Zotero. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
Dr. Clifford explains why he prefers to publish in open access journals, what problems he sees with the journal publishing system, and his view that the choice of journal is “as important as the research itself.” MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
Professor Ariely's book "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions" reports on his research showing that emotions, context, social norms, and related factors drive our decisions – and that we are irrational in predictable ways. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
Professor Stiny has invented shape grammars - the idea of identifying and quantifying a set of rules that can generate an infinite range of designs, much the way rules of grammar in language can generate an infinite range of sentences. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
An interview with Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
Professor Lienhard speaks about making his text book — the 3rd edition of A Heat Transfer Textbook — openly available on the web, with no charge to readers. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
The Executive Director of Science Commons, John Wilbanks, discusses how and why Science Commons is working to improve the flow of scientific knowledge so that complex scientific, technical, and medical problems can be solved more quickly. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
Tracy Gabridge, Associate Head of the Barker Engineering Library, speaks about a project she is leading in which a group of librarians is determining which conferences MIT Engineering faculty publish in, whether the MIT Libraries have access to the proceedings from these conferences, and whether the digital access appears to be vulnerable. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
In this episode, we hear from Professor Kai von Fintel, Professor of Linguistics at MIT. He discusses the launch of a new open access journal, Semantics and Pragmatics. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
Professor von Hippel speaks about his experiment with making two of his books openly available on his website at no cost to the reader, and about the broader issue of how the economics of innovation are increasingly favoring open, unrestricted internet access, including in scholarly publishing. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.
In “Transforming Scientific Communication,” Steve Gass, Head of Public Services, describes some problems with the existing model for scholarly publishing and offers his vision of positive changes that could be made. Recorded in September 2007. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons
In “Making a Difference: Pushing Back on DRM at MIT,” Anna Gold, Head of the Engineering and Science Libraries, tells the story of MIT’s rejection of Digital Rights Management technology when it was being imposed by a scholarly society for use of its technical papers here at MIT. Recorded in September 2007. MIT Libraries podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike license. See: http://libraries.mit.edu/creativecommons.