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ALT MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing its largest journal contract as overwhelmingly positive. MIT has long tried to avoid vendor lock-in through big deal contracts and, in 2019, maintained individual title-by-title subscriptions to approximately 675 Elsevier titles. In 2020, they took the significant step of canceling the full Elsevier journals contract – all 675 titles – leaving users with immediate access to only pre-2020 backfile content. Since the cancellation, MIT Libraries estimates annual savings at more than 80% of its original spend. This move saves MIT approximately $2 million each year, and the Libraries provide alternative means of access that fulfills most article requests in minutes.
ALT Abstract The replication crisis revealed high levels of bias and questionable research practices (QRPs) in psychology research. Registered Reports (RRs) have been increasingly adopted as a possible solution, but there has been relatively little evidence of whether this novel publishing format appears to be working as intended to reduce bias and QRPs. This project sought to build a detailed database of RRs and closely matched standard reports (SRs), to investigate whether RRs perform better than SRs on indicators of quality, rigour, and transparency.
