Tag: DSpace@MIT

Open access downloads: October 2024

Downloads this month: 180,581; Downloads since OA policy began: 27,457,077; Articles in the OA collection: 52,852; Featured country: France, 5,989 downloads. "As a student, I highly appreciate that papers are freely accessible to everyone. This is what we are supposed to do with knowledge – share it – thus research is imperatively a collective enterprise. I am trying to deepen my knowledge in this topic to understand whether I want to make it the object of my master's thesis.'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 October:

Large-Scale Rapid Liquid Printing, Hajash, Kathleen et al.

The Role of Housing and Mortgage Markets in the Financial Crisis, Adelino, Manuel et al.

MIT Cheetah 3: Design and Control of a Robust, Dynamic Quadruped Robot, Bledt, Gerado et al.

 

Open access downloads: September 2024

Downloads this month: 191,790; Downloads since OA policy began: 27,276,496; Articles in the OA collection: 52,755; Featured country: Malta: 20 downloads; "I'm a Maltese law student who never gets enough research papers on niche topics to read, and this entire library has been a blessing for my wandering mind to search and find real hard data in various fields."  Reading: How Do Firms Make Money Selling Digital Goods Online?, Anya Lambrecht et al.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 September:

Eyeglasses-Free Display: towards correcting visual aberrations with computational light field displays, Fu-Chung Huang, Gordon Wetzstein, Brian A. Barsky, Ramesh Raskar

A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets, Meghana Ranganathan, Brent Minchew

Limits to Internet Freedoms: Being Heard in an Increasingly Authoritarian World, Michael Nekrasov, Lisa Parks, Elizabeth Belding

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Open access downloads: August 2024

Downloads this month: 164,512; Downloads since OA policy began: 27,084,706; Articles in the OA collection: 52,633; Featured country: Sweden, 511 downloads.
 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 August:

Michael Milken’s Spreadsheets: Computation and Charisma in Finance in the Go-Go ’80s, William Deringer

Unconventional Superconductivity in Magic-Angle Graphene Superlattices, Yuan Cao et al.

Luck and the Law: Quantifying Chance in Fantasy Sports and Other Contests, Daniel Getty, Hao Li, Masayuki Yano, Charles Gao, A. E. Hosoi

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Open access downloads: July 2024

 

Downloads this month: 206,212; Downloads since OA policy began: 26,920,194; Articles in the OA collection: 52,520; Featured country: England, 7,135 downloadsThe Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through open access policies at MIT or publisher agreements.

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Top downloaded articles for July:

The Role of Inner-Core Moisture in Tropical Cyclone Predictability and Practical Forecast Skill, Kerry Emanuel, Fuqing Zhang

50 Years of quantum chromodynamics, Gross, F., Klempt, E., Brodsky, S.J. et al.

“Waste Not, Want Not” — Leveraging Sewer Systems and Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Drug Use Trends and Pharmaceutical Monitoring, Erickson, Timothy B. et al.

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Open access downloads: June 2024

Downloads this month: 201,885; Downloads since OA policy began 26,713,982; Articles in the OA collection: 52,340; Featured country: India: 4,338 downloadsThe Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through open access policies at MIT or publisher agreements.

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Top downloaded articles for June:

Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs: Comment, Wendy A. Stock, John J. Siegfried, T. Aldrich Finegan

Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change, Thomas R. Knutson et al.

Evaluating access, quality, and equity in online learning: A case study of a MOOC-based blended professional degree program, Joshua Littenberg-Tobias, Justin Reich

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Open access downloads: May 2024

Downloads this month: 201,705; Downloads since OA policy began: 26,512,097; Articles in the OA collection: 52,214; Featured country: Finland, 547 downloads. "I tried to log into the SpringerNature via my institutional credentials to get access to the full paper, but it was not successful. I was in great need to read this paper and I finally downloaded it thanks to you guys. Great help!" -University researcherThe 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 May:

ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, Olga Russakovsky et al.

Very Large Array observations of the mini-halo and AGN feedback in the Phoenix cluster, R Timmerman et al.

Working Memory Capacity: Limits on the Bandwidth of Cognition, Earl K. Miller, Timothy J. Buschman

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Open access downloads: April 2024

Downloads this month: 242,728; Downloads since OA policy began: 26,310,392; Articles in the OA collection: 51,993; Featured country: South Korea: 2,677 downloadsThe 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 April:

Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change, Thomas R. Knutson et al.

Advances in Weather Prediction, Richard B. Alley

“Waste Not, Want Not” — Leveraging Sewer Systems and Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Drug Use Trends and Pharmaceutical Monitoring, Timothy B. Erickson et al.

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Happy anniversary, MIT faculty open access policy

Visual representation of data points related to 15 years of OA at MITOn March 18, 2009, MIT faculty unanimously approved an open access policy, the first institute-wide one of its kind in the country. The OA policy allows faculty to hold onto rights to openly share and reuse their scholarly papers, and to let others freely build on that work. (An opt-in version of the faculty policy launched in 2017, giving students, postdocs, researchers, and staff the same means to retain rights in their publications.)

Fifteen years on, the open access landscape includes much more than university OA policies, and the MIT Libraries continues to be a leader. In 2019, the Libraries developed a principle-based framework to guide negotiations with scholarly publishers. Goals include protecting researchers’ rights to their scholarship and working with publishers to find equitable and sustainable publishing models. We’ve now signed large-scale agreements with seven publishers. The Libraries also funds individual articles and monographs, and we’ve joined others in collectively funding open access journals that charge neither subscription nor publishing fees. 

The goal of the 2009 MIT OA policy was access to scholarship. And though the open movement now addresses broader issues around equity, quality, sustainability of research, and the skewed incentive structures that underlie academic advancement, access is still an important part of open science and scholarship.

So happy 15th anniversary, MIT faculty open access policy! And thank you for helping MIT authors share their articles with the world.

15 Years of OA at MIT
March 2024

  • 51,693: Number of papers in the open access collection of DSpace
  • Physics: Department with the most papers in the OA collection (7,881)
  • 25.8 million: Total downloads of articles in the OA collection since 2009
  • Recent reader comment: “I’m writing my thesis, and my university can’t buy access to all the databases, so the open access content is priceless.” – PhD student, Poland

Open access downloads: February 2024

Downloads this month: 245,237; Downloads since OA policy began: 25,758,152; Articles in the OA collection: 51,692; Featured country: Czech Republic, 431 downloads.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.

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Top downloaded articles for February:

Formation of Replicating Saponite from a Gel in the Presence of Oxalate: Implications for the Formation of Clay Minerals in Carbonaceous Chondrites and the Origin of Life, Schumann, Dirk et al.

Brag2 Differentially Regulates β1- and β3-Integrin-Dependent Adhesion in Endothelial Cells and Is Involved in Developmental and Pathological Angiogenesis, Manavski, Yosif et al.

Global Convergence Rate of Incremental Aggregated Gradient Methods for Nonsmooth Problems, Vanli, N. Denizcan et al.

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