Open access downloads: May 2025

Statistics from the OA collection of DSpace@MIT

May 2025 Open Access Downloads, DSpace@MIT; Downloads this month: 374,823; Downloads since OA policy began: 29,170,511; Articles in the OA collection: 53,708. Featured country: France, 5,487 downloads. "I have an oral exam where I get to choose my subject. I wanted to talk about aerogels and wanted to read information from actual research papers instead of Wikipedia. It is nice to see in the sea of limited-access papers one that is available, especially coming from a high school student who cannot get access to most of them." Reading: Thermal Properties of Silica Aerogel Formula, Ellann Cohen, Leon Glicksman 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.

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Top downloaded articles for May:

How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? A Field Experiment, Catherine Tucker, Juanjuan Zhang

Synthesis of Heteroaryl Sulfonamides from Organozinc Reagents and 2,4,6-Trichlorophenyl Chlorosulfate, James R. Colombe, J. Robb DeBergh, Stephen L. Buchwald

Using Computational Models to Test Syntactic Learnability, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Richard Futrell, Roger Levy