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The open access manifesto played an important role in United States v.Swartz.In the case, the US government claimed that Swartz had violated federal laws by downloading large number of academic articles from the JSTOR academic article storage systems via the open MIT computer network. [11]
MIT Press is a leader in open access book publishing. [14] They published their first open access book in 1995 with the publication of William J. Mitchell's City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition. [1] They now publish open access books, textbooks, and journals.
MIT OpenCourseWare is supported by MIT, corporate underwriting, major gifts, and donations from site visitors. [2] The initiative inspired a number of other institutions to make their course materials available as open educational resources. [3] As of May 2018, over 2,400 courses were available online.
However, its report also noted that despite MIT's advocacy for open access culture at the institutional level and beyond, the university never extended that support to Swartz. The report revealed, for example, that while MIT considered the possibility of issuing a public statement about its position on the case, such a statement never materialized.
OpenCourseWare, originally initiated by MIT and the Hewlett Foundation, came to China in September 2003, when MIT and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) joined together with Beijing Jiaotong University to organize an OpenCourseWare conference in Beijing.
In 2001, inspired by the open source and open access movements, [93] MIT launched OpenCourseWare to make the lecture notes, problem sets, syllabi, exams, and lectures from the great majority of its courses available online for no charge, though without any formal accreditation for coursework completed. [94]
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At present, the MIT Open Access Working Group[6] is considering possible proactive initiatives in light of recent pushbacks, by some publishers, against open-access policies. These include publicly advocating pro–open access positions with professional societies, increasing MIT's support for open-access journals, and strengthening MIT's ...