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.

Due to an increase in harvesting from DSpace, including traffic from AI scraper bots used to train large language models, monthly download numbers have been much higher in the last year than they were previously. This is an issue affecting many OA repositories.

See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.

Top downloaded articles for February:

A Taxonomy of Home Automation: Expert Perspectives on the Future of Smarter Homes, Shabnam FakhrHosseini, Chaiwoo Lee, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph Coughlin

AI-optimized detector design for the future Electron-Ion Collider: the dual-radiator RICH case, Cristiano Fanelli, Michael Williams

Numerical solution of gravitational dynamics in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes, Paul M. Chesler, Laurence G. Yaffe

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