Open access downloads: May 2021

Statistics from the OA collection of DSpace@MIT

Downloads this month 169,710; Downloads since OA policy began 17,836,081; Articles in the OA collection 37,020; Featured country: United States 70,228 downloads The Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through open access policies at MIT or publisher agreements.

Each month we highlight the month’s download numbers and a few of the most-downloaded articles in the collection, and we feature stats and comments from a particular country.

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Top downloaded articles for May:

Curation as “Interoperability With the Future”: Preserving Scholarly Research Software in Academic Libraries, Alexandra M. Chassanoff, Micah Altman

The Sex/Gender Distinction and the Social Construction of Reality, Sally Haslanger

The Paradox of Meritocracy in Organizations, Emilio J. Castilla, Stephen Benard

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