[Open-access] MIT Press Journals

Tue Jun 2 08:09:53 UTC 2015

Hi all,

I emailed MIT Press about an article that had a CC license but appeared to be behind a paywall.

The response I received from MIT Press Journals was as follows:

Creative Commons licenses work in tandem with copyright rather than as a substitute for it. On behalf of MIT, the MIT Press is the copyright holder of the articles found in IJLM and because of this we reserve the right to sell the articles.  However, the articles are sold with a CC BY-NC-ND license attached, which allows the user to share the work with others provided that they fully credit the IJLM article.  With this license users cannot change the article in any way or use it commercially.

It seems a little against the spirit of the CC license and a rather odd choice for an academic publisher to make.

I was trying to get this article to put in our institutional repository on behalf of an academic. It will be interesting to hear what she has to say about this...

Kind regards,

Dimity.

Dimity Flanagan
Library Assistant, Research Support Services, LSE Research Online<http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/>
London School of Economics and Political Science
10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
tel: 020 7955 6311 | email: D.Flanagan at lse.ac.uk

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