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.

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

Top downloaded articles for October:

Statistics of Extreme Events in Fluid Flows and Waves, Themistoklis P. Sapsis

Airline-driven ground delay programs: A benefits assessment, Chiwei Yan, Vikrant Vaze, Cynthia Barnhart

Influencing human–AI interaction by priming beliefs about AI can increase perceived trustworthiness, empathy and effectiveness, Pat Pataranutaporn, Ruby Liu, Ed Finn, Patricia Maes

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In celebration of International Open Access Week, we’re running a series of stories about open scholarship that prioritizes community-run publishing and infrastructure. Today’s piece is written by Sadie Roosa, collections strategist for repository services in the Libraries.

DSpace, the open source and open access digital repository co-created by MIT developers in 2002, is an integral part of MIT’s efforts to make its researchers’ own scholarship freely and openly available to anyone in the world. 

On May 9, 2002, staff from MIT’s Sociotechnical Systems Research Center deposited DSpace@MIT’s very first item, Global sourcing in the automotive supply chain:The case of Fiat Auto, part of the International Motor Vehicle Program collection. There are now more than 137,000 articles, working papers, reports, books, and theses in the repository, and more than 600 collections. 

The two largest DSpace communities are campus-wide and accept works from researchers across the Institute. The MIT Theses community is the largest with over 60,000 items, and is heavily used with over 10 million  item downloads. The Open Access Articles collection, which includes scholarly journal articles and conference papers, many of which deposited under MIT’s open access policies, is also very large (over 51,000 items) and is the most used collection with over 24 million item downloads.

Because articles in the OA collection have been published in journals, often behind a paywall, we can see benefits of having open access versions in DSpace by comparing downloads from our open repository with those on a publisher’s website. 

For example, one of the most downloaded articles in the OA collection is The thermophysical properties of seawater: A review of existing correlations and data: There have been 25,832 downloads from DSpace. The publisher’s site shows 692 full text views/downloads of the paywalled version. The article,  A direct path to dependable software has been downloaded 24,483 downloads from DSpace but only 3,738 from the publisher.

In addition to these campus-wide communities, many DLCs run their own spaces in DSpace. CSAIL, Sloan School of Management, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT Sociotechnical Systems and Research Center, MIT OpenCourseWare, Department of Economics, and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) each have over 1,000 items in their collections. There’s no fee for researchers to deposit their work into DSpace@MIT. 

Here are more stats and info about some DSpace@MIT communities: 

OA Articles

• Most downloaded item in the past year and of all time: Physical and mechanical properties of PLA, and their functions in widespread applications–A comprehensive review, with 21, 812 downloads this year and 82,420 downloads total.

Theses

• Most downloaded item in the past year: Trial and Error : medical marijuana, the absence of evidence, and the allure of anecdote – 154,953 downloads (this is also the second most downloaded thesis of all time)
• Most downloaded item of all time: Electrostatic charging in fuel filtration – 180,987 downloads

Faculty and Researchers

• Most downloaded item in the past year: Ethics and Engineering Education – 2,621 downloads
• Most downloaded item of all time: Liberal Studies in Engineering – Workshop Report – 22,697 downloads

CSAIL

• Most downloaded item in the past year and all time: Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications – 19,922 downloads this year, and 334,320 downloads total

MIT Sloan

• Most downloaded item in the past year: Organizational culture – 11,206 downloads
• Most downloaded item of all time: CASE tools as organizational change : investigating incremental and radical changes in systems development – 323,629 downloads

Dept of Economics

• Most downloaded item in the past year: Keynesian models of unemployment – 3,567 downloads
• Most downloaded item of all time: The effects of taxation on labor supply : evaluating the Gary negative income tax experiment – 163,885 downloads
  

OpenCourseWare

• Most downloaded item in the past year: 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008 – 77,542 downloads
• Most downloaded item of all time: 3.091 Introduction to Solid State Chemistry, Fall 2004 – 880,740 downloads

Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)

• Most downloaded item in the past year and of all time: Lectures on communication theory – 3,469 downloads this year and 78,318 download total

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.

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

Top downloaded articles for September:

TESS spots a compact system of super-Earths around the naked-eye star HR 858, Andrew Vanderburg, et al.

The Impact of Demand Uncertainty on Consumer Subsidies for Green Technology Adoption, Maxime C. Cohen, Ruben Lobel, Georgia Perakis

Modernizing U.S. Freight Rail Regulation, Richard L. Schmalensee, Wesley W. Wilson

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

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.

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

Top downloaded articles for August:

Review of “Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought,” by Durba Mitra, Dwaipayan Banerjee

An Empirical Evaluation of Tax-Loss Harvesting Alpha, Shomesh E. Chaudhuri, Terence C. Burnham, Andrew W. Lo

MIT Cheetah 3: Design and Control of a Robust, Dynamic Quadruped Robot, Gerardo Bledt, Matthew J. Powell, Benjamin Katz, Jared Di Carlo, Patrick M. Wensing, Sangbae Kim

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

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.

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

Top downloaded articles for July:

Design and Manufacturing of a High-Specific-Power Electric Machine for Aircraft Propulsion, Henry Andersen, Yuankang Chen, Mohammad M. Qasim, David G. Cuadrado, David M. Otten, Edward Greitzer, David J. Perreault, James L. Kirtley, Jr., Jeffrey H. Lang, Zoltán Spakovszky

In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Italian Mezzogiorno, Joshua Angrist, Erich Battistin, Daniela Vuri

Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States, Kathleen Thelen

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

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.

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

Top downloaded articles for June:

Japan’s Retreat to the Metaverse, Paul Roquet

Design and Optimization of an Inverter for a One-Megawatt Ultra-Light Motor Drive, Mohammad M. Qasim, David M. Otten, Zoltán S. Spakovszky, Jeffrey H. Lang, James L. Kirtley Jr., David J. Perreault

The Iris Effect: A Review, Richard S. Lindzen, Yong-Sang Choi

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

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.

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

Top downloaded articles for May:

Women Empowerment and Economic Development, Esther Duflo

Natural Language Based Financial Forecasting: A Survey, Frank Z. Xing, Erik Cambria, Roy E. Welsch

The Emergence Of Multispecies Ethnography, Eben Kirksey, Stefan Helmreich

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

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.

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

Top downloaded articles for April:

Grain boundary and triple junction constraints during martensitic transformation in shape memory alloys, Stian M. Ueland, Christopher A. Schuh

Learning Eco-Driving Strategies at Signalized Intersections, Vindula Jayawardana, Cathy Wu

Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies, Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Jonathon Hazell, and Pascual Restrepo

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