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.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for June:

Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment, Wendy A. Stock, John J. Siegfried, T. Aldrich Finegan

Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change, Thomas R. Knutson et al.

Evaluating access, quality, and equity in online learning: A case study of a MOOC-based blended professional degree program, Joshua Littenberg-Tobias, Justin Reich

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu

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.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for May:

ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, Olga Russakovsky et al.

Very Large Array observations of the mini-halo and AGN feedback in the Phoenix cluster, R Timmerman et al.

Working Memory Capacity: Limits on the Bandwidth of Cognition, Earl K. Miller, Timothy J. Buschman

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu

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.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for April:

Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change, Thomas R. Knutson et al.

Advances in Weather Prediction, Richard B. Alley

“Waste Not, Want Not” — Leveraging Sewer Systems and Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Drug Use Trends and Pharmaceutical Monitoring, Timothy B. Erickson et al.

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu

On March 18, 2009, MIT faculty unanimously approved an open access policy, the first institute-wide one of its kind in the country. The OA policy allows faculty to hold onto rights to openly share and reuse their scholarly papers, and to let others freely build on that work. (An opt-in version of the faculty policy launched in 2017, giving students, postdocs, researchers, and staff the same means to retain rights in their publications.)

Fifteen years on, the open access landscape includes much more than university OA policies, and the MIT Libraries continues to be a leader. In 2019, the Libraries developed a principle-based framework to guide negotiations with scholarly publishers. Goals include protecting researchers’ rights to their scholarship and working with publishers to find equitable and sustainable publishing models. We’ve now signed large-scale agreements with seven publishers. The Libraries also funds individual articles and monographs, and we’ve joined others in collectively funding open access journals that charge neither subscription nor publishing fees. 

The goal of the 2009 MIT OA policy was access to scholarship. And though the open movement now addresses broader issues around equity, quality, sustainability of research, and the skewed incentive structures that underlie academic advancement, access is still an important part of open science and scholarship.

So happy 15th anniversary, MIT faculty open access policy! And thank you for helping MIT authors share their articles with the world.

15 Years of OA at MIT
March 2024

• 51,693: Number of papers in the open access collection of DSpace
• Physics: Department with the most papers in the OA collection (7,881)
• 25.8 million: Total downloads of articles in the OA collection since 2009
• Recent reader comment: “I’m writing my thesis, and my university can’t buy access to all the databases, so the open access content is priceless.” – PhD student, Poland

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.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for February:

Formation of Replicating Saponite from a Gel in the Presence of Oxalate: Implications for the Formation of Clay Minerals in Carbonaceous Chondrites and the Origin of Life, Schumann, Dirk et al.

Brag2 Differentially Regulates β1- and β3-Integrin-Dependent Adhesion in Endothelial Cells and Is Involved in Developmental and Pathological Angiogenesis, Manavski, Yosif et al.

Global Convergence Rate of Incremental Aggregated Gradient Methods for Nonsmooth Problems, Vanli, N. Denizcan et al.

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu

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.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for January:

Self-consistent noise characterization of quantum devices, Won Kyu Calvin Sun, Paola Cappellaro

Physics-enhanced deep surrogates for PDEs, Raphael Pestourie, Youssef Mroueh, Chris Rackauckas, Payel Das, Steven G. Johnson

Strategic Workforce Planning Under Uncertainty, Patrick Jaillet, Gar Goei Loke, Melvyn Sim

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu

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.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for December:

Discovery of a structural class of antibiotics with explainable deep learning, Wong, F., Zheng, E.J., Valeri, J.A. et al.

Estimating Origin-Destination flows using opportunistically collected mobile phone location data from one million users in Boston Metropolitan Area, Francesco Calabrese, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Liang Liu, Carlo Ratti

Accurate transition state generation with an object-aware equivariant elementary reaction diffusion model, Chenru Duan, Yuanqi Du , Haojun Jia, Heather J. Kulik

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu

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.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for November:

Janus Graphene: Scalable Self‐Assembly and Solution‐Phase Orthogonal Functionalization, Intak Jeon, Martin D. Peeks, Suchol Savagatrup, Lukas Zeininger, Sehoon Chang, Gawain Thomas, Wei Wang, Timothy M. Swager

Fetal Functional Imaging Portrays Heterogeneous Development of Emerging Human Brain Networks, András Jakab, Ernst Schwartz, Gregor Kasprian, Gerlinde M. Gruber, Daniela Prayer, Veronika Schöpf, Georg Langs

Is first- or third-party audience data more effective for reaching the ‘right’ customers? The case of IT decision-makers, Nico Neumann, Catherine E. Tucker, Kumar Subramanyam, John Marshall

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu

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.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for October:

Statistics of Extreme Events in Fluid Flows and Waves, Themistoklis P. Sapsis

Airline-driven ground delay programs: A benefits assessment, Chiwei Yan, Vikrant Vaze, Cynthia Barnhart

Influencing human–AI interaction by priming beliefs about AI can increase perceived trustworthiness, empathy and effectiveness, Pat Pataranutaporn, Ruby Liu, Ed Finn, Patricia Maes

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu