Milestones: 43% of Articles Published by MIT Faculty Since Open Access Policy Adopted Available in Institutional Repository
From MIT Libraries:
A new milestone was reached in collecting articles under the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy : 43% of the articles published by faculty since they adopted their Policy are now being shared through the Open Access Articles Collection in Dspace@MIT.
As of the end of July 2015, downloads of the 17,400 articles deposited in relation to the Policy topped 3.3 million, with over 83,500 downloads during the month.
The complete blog post includes comments by Dspace@MIT users and Top 10 downloaded papers during July 2015.
Direct to DSpace@MIT ||| Open Access Articles Collection
Direct to MIT’s Open Access Article Statistics (Public)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.