{"id":44095,"date":"2026-02-05T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=44095"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:43:25","slug":"open-access-downloads-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/open-access-downloads-january-2026\/44095\/","title":{"rendered":"Open access downloads: January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-44096 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Jan-2026-512x1024.png\" alt=\"January 2026 Open Access Downloads, DSpace@MIT. Downloads this month: 848,592. Downloads since OA policy began: 33,658,992. Articles in the OA collection: 55,118. Featured country: Switzerland; 1,084 downloads. &quot;I'm a master\u2019s student doing research for my thesis and there are so many articles that are not accessible, which makes this process so much more difficult. Therefore, it is so great that your articles are open access. Thank you very very much! I appreciate you!&quot;\" width=\"512\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Jan-2026-512x1024.png 512w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Jan-2026-150x300.png 150w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Jan-2026-768x1536.png 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Jan-2026-624x1248.png 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Jan-2026.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/49433\">Open Access Collection<\/a>\u00a0of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/mit-open-access\/\">open access policies at MIT<\/a>\u00a0or publisher agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Each month we highlight the month\u2019s download numbers and a few of the most-downloaded articles in the collection, and we feature stats and comments from a particular country.<\/p>\n<p>See your own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/oastats\">download statistics<\/a>\u00a0or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center.<\/p>\n<p>Top downloaded articles for January:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1721.1\/78589\">Advanced Perception, Navigation and Planning for Autonomous In-water Ship Hull Inspection<\/a>, F.S. Hover et al.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1721.1\/125065\">The Moral Machine experiment<\/a>, E. Awad et al.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1721.1\/146063\">On-Body Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters through Innovative Designs and Conformable Structures<\/a>, Sara V Fernandez et al.<\/p>\n<p>Questions or comments? Email us:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:oastats@mit.edu\">oastats@mit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Open Access Collection\u00a0of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through\u00a0open access policies at MIT\u00a0or publisher agreements. Each month we highlight the month\u2019s 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\u00a0download statistics\u00a0or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center. Top downloaded articles for January: Advanced Perception, Navigation and Planning for Autonomous In-water Ship Hull Inspection, F.S. Hover et al. The Moral Machine experiment, E. Awad et al. On-Body Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters through Innovative Designs and Conformable Structures, Sara V [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"subtitle":"Statistics from the OA collection of DSpace@MIT","is_event":false,"calendar_url":"","calendar_id":"","calendar_image":"","pauthor":"","urgent":false,"notes":"","featuredListImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/lobby-7_657x256_acf_cropped.jpg","homeImg":false,"listImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/02\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Jan-2026_323x111_acf_cropped.png","homepage_post_title":"","featuredArticle":"false"},"categories":[10,240],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-44095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-scholarly-communication","tag-dspacemit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44109,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44095\/revisions\/44109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}