Change in IEEE Author Policy: Impact on MIT Faculty Open Access Policy

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Re: http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/ieee-change-author/4981/

To Ellen Duranceau, MIT Libraries

Dear Ellen,

The IEEE policy change is a good thing, a blessing in disguise.

Self archiving of the accepted final draft is what the policy and 
procedure should have been all along. That s the procedure that 
will work, and the policy that can and will scale to all other 
institutions and funders. It s also what will usher in universal 
Green OA and then downsizing and transition to Gold OA, with 
publishers downsizing to just peer review. If you had kept 
relying on importing the publisher s PDF, that would not have 
been possible and the policy and procedure would not have scaled.

Best wishes,

Stevan

Change in IEEE Author Policy: Impact on MIT Faculty Open Access 
Policy

http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/ieee-change-author/4981/
Posted March 23rd, 2011 by Ellen Duranceau

In January 2011, the IEEE changed a key author policy, 
discontinuing the right authors had to post the final published 
version of their IEEE articles on the web. This alters what 
authors can do with their work and how the MIT Faculty Open 
Access Policy can be implemented for these papers.

The policy change is not retrospective: papers posted before 
January do not need to be taken down from the web. But from 
January on, authors may post only their accepted manuscripts, not 
the final published version of their articles.

As a consequence of this policy change, the MIT Libraries can no 
longer copy the final published articles from IEEE's database and 
post them in MIT's research repository, Dspace@MIT, as we have 
been doing since the faculty passed their Open Access Policy: 
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/49433/

Instead, the Libraries are now requesting that authors submit 
their final accepted manuscripts of IEEE papers for deposit under 
the Policy. Papers can be uploaded through a simple web form -- 
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/49433/submit -- and will 
appear in the Open Access Articles Collection.

* IEEE's policy 
http://www.ieee.org/documents/authorversionfaq.pdf
* MIT Faculty Open Access Policy: 
http://libraries.mit.edu/oapolicy
* Ellen Duranceau, MIT Libraries Program Manager, Scholarly 
Publishing & Licensing, x38483.