MIT Libraries Spaces
The names of the 5 libraries on campus.
What are Barker, Dewey, Hayden, Lewis, and Rotch?
The item you need to borrow books from The Libraries.
What is your MIT ID?
The staff members assigned to each academic department who can help you find and access articles, data, and information.
What are expert or liaison librarians?
The space on the 1st floor of Rotch Library, which offers high performance computers and one-on-one help with software like ArcGIS, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and MATLAB.
What is the GIS & Data Lab?
The people who answer questions about copyright & author rights, open access publishing, and research sharing & preservation.
What is MIT's Scholarly Communications Team?
The place where you can get a meal in Hayden Library.
What is the Courtyard Cafe?
An example of a news source you can subscribe to for free courtesy of The Libraries.
What is the New York Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, or the Financial Times?
What is Chat or Chat with us?
This tool, available to the MIT community, helps you manage your data and be compliant with funder information sharing policies.
What is DMPTool?
MIT's open access repository
What is DSpace?
The hours the MIT community can access Barker, Dewey, Hayden, and Rotch libraries.
What is 24/7 access?
The number of days you can borrow most items from The Libraries.
What is 60 days?
The library which offers in-person help for management and business research.
What is Dewey Library?
The software available to the MIT community which helps you organize and store experimental procedures, protocols, notes, and data.
What is LabArchives?
The elective policy which allows MIT authors to legally make their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts freely available through MIT's repository and other venues.
What is MIT's Open Access Opt-in Policy?
The place where you can reserve group study rooms in Barker, Dewey, or Hayden libraries.
What is the MIT libraries website or libraries.mit.edu?
The service that helps you get items not owned by The Libraries.
What is Interlibrary Borrowing?
The tools which can be downloaded from the libraries website to help you organize your research and manage large volumes of literature.
What are citation managers and/or Mendeley and Zotero?
The event that happens from 2pm - 4pm during the Fall and Spring academic semesters in the GIS & Data Lab.
What are drop-in hours?
The ways MIT Libraries works with publishers, such as ACS and Science, to reduce publishing costs for authors.
What are publisher OA agreements and discounts?
The library center which supports teaching and research on the build environment of Muslim societies.
What is the Aga Khan Documentation Center?
The location of where you might find the papers of a retired MIT professor.
What is Distinctive Collections?
The place you go to on The Libraries' website to find and access scholarly databases, such as Compendex and JSTOR.
What is Databases A-Z or subject guides or collection search?
The email address for the team which can help you with making a data management plan, storing your data, sharing your data, documenting your data, or meeting data sharing requirements.
What is data-management@mit.edu?
The new tool offered from MIT Libraries to find articles in the collection and access journal articles outside of the collection (including Elsevier) with one-click.
What is LibKey Nomad?