Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Announces Support for the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts

From ARL:

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) supports the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts as an important pathway to making scholarly content more openly available. The framework sets forth six core principles for library contracts with publishers, such as author retention of copyrights, automatic deposit of manuscripts into institutional repositories, and blanket text- and data-mining (machine-reading) rights with no additional license required.

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See Also: MIT Announces Framework to Guide Negotiations With Publishers (October 23, 2019)

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