Open access downloads: April 2025

Statistics from the OA collection of DSpace@MIT

April 2025 Open Access Downloads, DSpace@MIT. Downloads this month: 245,864 ; Downloads since OA policy began 28,795,688; Articles in the OA collection: 53,658; Featured country: United States: 102,200 downloads. "As a DE&I professional who understands that the principles underlying diversity, equity and inclusion are what help make true meritocracy possible, revisiting research that explains the paradox is useful in this moment that is anti-DEI and anti-democratic. Grateful this read was accessible and not behind a pay wall." Reading: The Paradox of Meritocracy in OrganizationsThe Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through open access policies at MIT or publisher agreements.

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Top downloaded articles for April:

Uncovering the functional diversity of rare CRISPR-Cas systems 1 with deep terascale clustering, Han Altae-Tran, Soumya Kannan, Anthony J. Suberski, Kepler S. Mears, F. Esra Demircioglu, et al.

Electrostatically Driven Fog Collection Using Space Charge Injection, Maher Damak, Kripa K. Varanasi

The Archaeology of Pig Domestication in Eurasia, Max Price, Hitomi Hongo

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