On August 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo regarding public access to scientific research. Signed by Director Alondra Nelson, this updated guidance eliminated the 12-month embargo period on publications arising from U.S. federal funding that had been allowed from a previous 2013 OSTP memo. While reactions to this updated federal guidance have been plentiful, to date there has not been a detailed analysis of the publications which would fall under this new framework. The OSTP released a companion report along with the memo, but it only provided a broad estimate of total numbers affected per year. Therefore, this study seeks to more deeply investigate the characteristics of U.S. federally funded research over a 5-year period from 2017-2021 to better understand the updated guidance's impact. It uses a manually created custom filter in the Dimensions database to return only publications that arise from U.S. federal funding. Results show that an average of 265,000 articles were published each year that acknowledge U.S. federal funding agencies, and these research outputs are further examined by publisher, journal title, institutions, and Open Access status. Interactive versions of the plots are available online at https://ostp.lib.iastate.edu/.
翻译:8月25日,2022年8月25日,白宫科学技术政策办公室发布了一份关于公众获得科学研究机会的备忘录,由Alondra Nelson主任签名,该最新指南取消了美国联邦资助的12个月的封锁期,该期限是2013年《开放政策办公室备忘录》允许的。虽然对这一更新后的联邦指导的反应是全面的,但迄今为止尚未对属于这一新框架范围的出版物进行详细分析。开放政策办公室发布了一份附带报告,同时发布了一份备忘录,但仅提供了每年受影响的总人数的大致估计。因此,本研究报告试图更深入地调查美国联邦资助的研究在2017-2021年五年期间的特点,以更好地了解最新指南的影响。在Times数据库中人工创建的定制过滤器仅用于回复来自美国联邦供资的出版物。结果显示,每年平均发表265,000篇文章,承认美国联邦供资机构,这些研究成果由出版商、期刊标题、机构以及开放访问状态(https://livia)进一步审查。