Open access downloads: January 2026

Statistics from the OA collection of DSpace@MIT

January 2026 Open Access Downloads, DSpace@MIT. Downloads this month: 848,592. Downloads since OA policy began: 33,658,992. Articles in the OA collection: 55,118. Featured country: Switzerland; 1,084 downloads. "I'm a master’s student doing research for my thesis and there are so many articles that are not accessible, which makes this process so much more difficult. Therefore, it is so great that your articles are open access. Thank you very very much! I appreciate you!"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.

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Top downloaded articles for January:

Advanced Perception, Navigation and Planning for Autonomous In-water Ship Hull Inspection, F.S. Hover et al.

The Moral Machine experiment, E. Awad et al.

On-Body Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters through Innovative Designs and Conformable Structures, Sara V Fernandez et al.

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