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 March:

Cost and energy needs of RO-ED-crystallizer systems for zero brine discharge seawater desalination, Kishor G. Nayara, Jenifer Fernandesb, Ronan K. McGoverna, Bader S. Al-Anzib, John H. Lienhard V

SLAM Handbook: From Localization and Mapping to Spatial Intelligence, edited by Luca Carlone, Ayoung Kim, Timothy Barfoot, Daniel Cremers, Frank Dellaert

Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Unprotected, Nitrogen-Rich Heterocycles: Substrate Scope and Mechanistic Investigation, M. Alexander Düfert, Kelvin L. Billingsley, Stephen L. Buchwald

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