Open access downloads: December 2025

Statistics from the OA collection of DSpace@MIT

By on January 6, 2026 in Scholarly communication

December 2025: Open Access Downloads, DSpace@MIT. Downloads this month: 576,076. Downloads since OA policy began: 32,810,400. Articles in the OA collection: 55,010. Featured country: Sri Lanka, 154 downloads. "For researchers in developing countries, limited access to scholarly literature is one of the most significant challenges we face. Institutional subscriptions are often insufficient, and individual access to recently published papers, which are critical for conducting high-quality, up-to-date research, is financially unattainable for many of us. MIT’s commitment to open access has therefore been incredibly valuable to me." -PhD studentThe 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 December:

Digital Health Communication and Global Public Influence: A Study of the Ebola Epidemic, Hal Roberts, Brittany Seymour, Sands Alden Fish II, Emily Robinson, Ethan Zuckerman

Merger of a Bubble and a Soap Film, Daniel M. Harris, Giuseppe Pucci, Victor Prost, Julio Quintela Casal, John W. M. Bush

1/2 (e[superscript 2]/h) Conductance Plateau without 1D Chiral Majorana Fermions, Wenjie Ji, Xiao-Gang Wen

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