Open access downloads: January 2025

Statistics from the OA collection of DSpace@MIT

By on February 6, 2025 in All news

Downloads this month: 208,092; Downloads since OA policy began: 28,078,920; Articles in the OA collection: 53,168; Featured country: Switzerland, 611 downloads; "I am organizing a conference on open science in Switzerland and was searching literature. I found an article on Nature, which was closed access. But when I hit my Zotero button in my toolbar, I had the good surprise to see that this PDF was downloaded." Reading: In pursuit of open science, open access is not enough, Claudio Aspesi, Amy BrandThe 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 January:

The Data-Driven Newsvendor Problem: New Bounds and Insights, Retsef Levi, Georgia Perakis, Joline Uichanco

The Moral Machine experiment, Awad, E. et al.

Intrusion recovery for database-backed web applications, Ramesh Chandra, Taesoo Kim, Meelap Shah, Neha Narula, Nickolai Zeldovich

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