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, or find more reader comments and global statistics.

Top downloaded articles for February:

Optimization-based locomotion planning, estimation, and control design for the atlas humanoid robot, Scott Kuindersma, Robin Deits, Maurice Fallon, Andrés Valenzuela, Hongkai Dai, Frank Permenter, Twan Koolen, Pat Marion, Ross Tedrake

Visual prostheses: Current progress and challenges, Luke Theogarajan, Doug Shire, Shawn Kelly, John L. Wyatt, Joseph Rizzo

Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation, Annabelle Gawer and Michael A. Cusumano

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, or find more reader comments and global statistics.

Top downloaded articles for January:

Real-Time Large-Scale Dense RGB-D SLAM with Volumetric Fusion, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, H. Johannsson, M. Fallon, J. J. Leonard, J. McDonald

Environmental Detection of Clandestine Nuclear Weapon Programs, R. Scott Kemp

Role of Adult Neurogenesis in Hippocampal-Cortical Memory Consolidation, Takashi Kitamura, Kaoru Inokuchi

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, or find more reader comments and global statistics.

Top downloaded articles for December:

The strong story hypothesis and the directed perception hypothesis, Patrick Winston

Mistrust, efficacy and the new civics: Understanding the deep roots of the crisis of faith in journalism, Ethan Zuckerman

Entanglements in practice: Performing anonymity through social media, Susan V. Scott, Wanda J. Orlikowski

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, or find more reader comments and global statistics.

Top downloaded articles for November:

Women Empowerment and Economic Development, Esther Duflo

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation, David Autor

A Wearable Sensor for Unobtrusive, Long-Term Assessment of Electrodermal Activity, N.C. Swenson and R.W. Picard, with Ming-Zher Poh

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

Happy Open Access Week 2017!

This year we’re celebrating by offering several workshops and events and by promoting MIT’s new opt-in open access license. Announced in April, the license expands MIT’s faculty open access policy to include students, postdocs, researchers, and staff — anyone on campus who wants to hold onto rights to share and reuse their scholarly papers.

OA Week events:

• Open science workshop and lunch
  Friday, October 20, 12-1:30 pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
  OA Week is officially October 23-29, but we’re getting started early! Are you curious what open science is, or how it can be beneficial for science — or your career? How can you work more openly, and what resources at MIT exist to help you be an open scientist? Join the MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Moerman and the Libraries’ Phoebe Ayers and Katie Zimmerman for an exploration of these topics and more. We’ll cover what open science practices are and why working openly can help you; open access publishing; and open access resources at MIT.
• Sign MIT’s new open access license and win prizes!
  Tuesday, October 24, 9am – 3pm, Lobby 10
  Come to our table in Lobby 10 to learn more about the new opt-in open access license, a tool you can use to legally hold onto rights to share and reuse your work. Get a t-shirt if you sign at the table. And, if you sign the license between October 23-29, you’ll be entered to win one of ten $100 gift certificates to the MIT Press Bookstore. Learn more about the license.
• Wikipedia edit-a-thon
  Friday, October 27, 1 – 4:30 pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
  Join us to celebrate OA by editing one of the largest open access projects – Wikipedia. Explore open access scholarship from MIT and beyond, including MIT dissertations and articles that are openly available. One source we’ll highlight is the MIT Libraries DSpace@MIT. Staff from the Libraries who are experienced Wikipedians will provide a short introduction to MIT open access resources and an overview of editing Wikipedia and will be available to answer questions. Drop in anytime during the session.
• Launching next week: New OA source of articles in MIT Libraries catalog
  Searching the MIT Libraries catalog for journal articles? You’ll see a new source feeding into results lists: oadoi.org. If an item has a DOI that matches one from oaDOI’s index of millions of open access full-text articles, the OA version will appear as an option. The MIT Libraries are excited to offer this new path to access scholarly content. oaDOI is a contribution to an OA infrastructure that, by taking readers to versions of articles that are not behind paywalls, supports MIT’s aim of democratizing access to information.
• Underway now: Ad hoc task force on open access to MIT’s research
  MIT faculty, researchers, students, and staff in MIT’s new OA task force have been meeting twice a month since late summer to review OA policies and activities at MIT and beyond and make recommendations for what else the Institute should be doing. The task force, co-chaired by MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg and Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is expected to run at least one calendar year; its charge includes a white paper on current state of OA and a set of recommendations.

MIT has reached a new open access milestone: 46 percent of faculty members’ articles published since the OA policy passed in 2009 are now being shared in the Open Access Articles Collection of DSpace@MIT. (Last year, the number was 44 percent.)

Earlier this month, the MIT Libraries celebrated making live in DSpace the first paper to rely on rights retained under the new MIT authors’ opt-in open access license. The license was announced by MIT’s vice president for research, Maria Zuber, in April.

“Thrilled to be offering the inaugural paper,” wrote Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media in the Media Lab, in an email. Zuckerman, a professor of the practice, signed the opt-in license soon after it was announced.

After his paper appeared in the OA collection of DSpace, Zuckerman tweeted his support and asked fellow MITers to sign the open access license too. “So happy that @MIT is now offering #openaccess licenses to all community authors, not just faculty. Big, important step forward,” he wrote.

“Hey @civicMIT, @medialab and @mit_cmsw grad students — you can now archive OA versions of your pre-press works at DSpace. And you should.”

As of the end of July 2017, there were more than 25,000 articles in MIT’s OA collection — a nearly 20 percent increase over last year at that time — and users have downloaded those articles more than 8.1 million times.

Want to learn more?

• Check out our latest infographic on monthly OA stats.
• Visit the Open Access Article Statistics site to view download statistics, including on a global map.
• Deposit a manuscript to the OA collection by logging into a form at DSpace@MIT.
• Email us at oastats@mit.edu.