{"id":44288,"date":"2026-05-04T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=44288"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:56:18","slug":"open-access-downloads-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/open-access-downloads-april-2026\/44288\/","title":{"rendered":"Open access downloads: April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-44289 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Apr-2026-512x1024.png\" alt=\"April 2026 Open Access Downloads, DSpace@MIT. Downloads this month: 711,942; Downloads since OA policy began: 36,726,473; Articles in the OA collection: 55,784. Featured country: Turkey, 3,645 downloads. &quot;I am a linguistics student. Everything is very expensive in Turkey, but books and especially works in English are incredibly expensive. I am very interested in semantics and logic, so being able to read such works from MIT professors is immensely helpful. Thank you so much!&quot; Reading: Conditional Propositions and Conditional Assertions, Robert Stalnaker\" width=\"512\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Apr-2026-512x1024.png 512w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Apr-2026-150x300.png 150w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Apr-2026-768x1536.png 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Apr-2026-624x1248.png 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Apr-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>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/coar-repositories.org\/news-updates\/mitigating-the-impact-of-ai-bots\/\">an issue affecting many OA repositories<\/a>.<\/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 (&amp; book!) for April:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1721.1\/82636\">Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India<\/a>, Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, Petia Topalova<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1721.1\/165274\">Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in east Africa<\/a>, Jacob Moscona, Awa Ambra Seck<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1721.1\/125712\">Traveling with sugar: chronicles of a global epidemic<\/a>, Amy Moran-Thomas<\/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. 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\u00a0download statistics\u00a0or those of a particular MIT department, lab, [&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":false,"homeImg":false,"listImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/OA-Downloads-infographic_Apr-2026_323x111_acf_cropped.png","homepage_post_title":"","featuredArticle":"false"},"categories":[10,240],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-44288","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\/44288","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=44288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44294,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44288\/revisions\/44294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}