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"This month the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy hit a new milestone: papers made openly available through the Open Access Articles Collection have been downloaded over 2 million times. Total downloads from the collection of just under 12,000 papers reached 2,012,312 by the end of April, 2014. This new watershed was reached just one year after celebrating the 1 millionth download — a new peak of one million downloads in one year. Those are not the only new high water marks: In March, at the fifth anniversary of the faculty’s establishment of the Policy, montly downloads reached over 100,000 for the first time ..."