I am an academic librarian, and I have tested out a couple links under this system. A link shared through social media will work (which is good), but not on a mobile device (boo!). I see this as very unlikely to increase access in any way, for the main reason that people with Nature subscriptions were already in the habit of sending PDFs to colleagues. If you want a specific article, you would either need to ask a colleague who has access or request it through your library, so nothing has actually changed in that respect.
The MIT libraries would be doing their community a great disservice if they ceased subscribing to all resources that were not fully OA. Particularly in humanities and social sciences, OA has not had much traction.
Universities do not decide where their faculty submit, and it would be an infringement on professors' academic freedom. They could require deposit in their institutional repository though.
The committees that make tenure decision may not be able to judge whether a certain project merits tenure, particularly from narrow specialists. However, it has been reviewed and published by a top journal, that's a good sign. I'd like to see some big changes to the tenure process, but it's a tough nut to crack.
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I am an academic librarian, and I have tested out a couple links under this system. A link shared through social media will work (which is good), but not on a mobile device (boo!). I see this as very unlikely to increase access in any way, for the main reason that people with Nature subscriptions were already in the habit of sending PDFs to colleagues. If you want a specific article, you would either need to ask a colleague who has access or request it through your library, so nothing has actually changed in that respect.
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The MIT libraries would be doing their community a great disservice if they ceased subscribing to all resources that were not fully OA. Particularly in humanities and social sciences, OA has not had much traction.
Universities do not decide where their faculty submit, and it would be an infringement on professors' academic freedom. They could require deposit in their institutional repository though.
The committees that make tenure decision may not be able to judge whether a certain project merits tenure, particularly from narrow specialists. However, it has been reviewed and published by a top journal, that's a good sign. I'd like to see some big changes to the tenure process, but it's a tough nut to crack.