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 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 (& book!) for April:

Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India, Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, Petia Topalova

Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa, Jacob Moscona, Awa Ambra Seck

Traveling with sugar: chronicles of a global epidemic, Amy Moran-Thomas

Questions or comments? Email us: oastats@mit.edu