The ANR Open Science Monitor

Discover the ANR open science monitor

As part of its open science policy, discover the local ANR adaptation of The French Open Science Monitor. The ANR open science monitor measures the opening rate of publications with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Crossref resulting from The Generic Call for Proposals (AAPG) and France 2030 programme (including the Investments for the Future programme 2, 3 and 4) since the 2016 edition.

The French Open Science Monitor has been developed by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research since 2018. The 2021 edition provides an easily achievable local adaptation for institutions that wish to measure the impacts of their open access policy to scientific publications. The latest version of the national open access monitor was unveiled on February 28, 2024.

Measuring the effects of the ANR's open science policy

The local adaptation of the national open science monitor to ANR data has three main objectives:

• To support the implementation of its policy in favour of open access to publications and to measure its effects
• To measure the open access rate of scientific publications resulting from ANR-funded projects
• To provide visibility on the publication routes adopted by the ANR grantees.

For each of the six graphs presented below, the adaptation of the open science monitor to ANR data enables to observe the impacts of the implementation of its open access policy to publications in calls for proposals.

The methodology of the ANR’s open science Monitor

The ANR open science monitor is built on all publications with DOI Crossref resulting from The Generic Call for Proposals (AAPG) and France 2030 projects (including PIA program 2, 3 and 4) since the 2016 edition. These publications are collected from the following sources:

• The section "Publications and Communications" of the final reports or 
• DOI with association of the ANR research project id (e.g. ANR-22-CE64-0014) resulting from:
  • The HAL-ANR portal
  • OpenAlex
  • The Web of Science

The ANR open science monitor in six graphs

Developed by the MESR from these data, the dynamic graphs take into account three temporalities: the year of publication, i.e. the year in which the results were actually published. The year of observation, which is one year after publication in order to consider the "dynamic" aspect of open access status. For example, some journals release open access to publication after a certain period of time from the date of publication, known as moving barrier. An author who publishes an article in closed access can share his publication a few months later in an open archive once the moving barrier has expired. Finally, there is the year of the call for proposals. Only made for the ANR, this last temporality is present in the second graph presented below.

This graph presents for each observation date since 2018 the opening rate of publications resulting from projects funded by the ANR under the Generic Call for Projects (AAPG) and the France 2030 Programs (including PIA 2, 3 and 4) from the 2016 edition. Therefore, 87% of the scientific publications funded by the ANR, published in 2021, were in open access in 2022.

To note: We can observe a steady increase in the open access rate from 60% in 2018 to 87% in 2022.

This graph shows, for each edition call for proposals since 2016, the evolution of the rate of open access by year of publication.

To note:

• For the 2020 edition, 92% of publications resulting from an AAPG and/or France 2030 project (including PIA 2, 3 and 4) published in 2021 are available in open access in 2022.
• Since 2019 and the implementation of the ANR open science policy, the open access rate is increasing significantly.
• The ANR's commitment to open science is impacting even on previous editions. This phenomenon reflects a real change in practices across the scientific communities.
• The decrease in the open access rate for the year 2021 is due to the time lag between the publication date and the observation date.

This graph compares the French Open Science Monitor data with the ANR open science monitor data. It presents for the most recent observation date (2023), the proportion of publications that are available via:

• an open archive only (in dark green)
• the publisher only (in yellow)
• both via an open archive and via the publisher (in light green)

To note: Regarding the ANR open science monitor data, we observe a clear increase of publications that are available either via an open archive (dark green) or via an open archive and via the publisher (light green). Indeed, from 69% in 2016, the rate of publications reported on an open archive has increased to 80% in 2021.

This graph presents, for each disciplinary field, the evolution of the open access rate observed each year for the previous year's publications. This visualization makes it possible to observe and compare the opening dynamics of the different disciplines: each point on a line represents the rate observed during an observation year. Thus, the greater the distance between two consecutive points, the more the open access rate has evolved between two years of observation.

To note :

• In 2022, 94% of publications resulting from mathematics projects were made available in open access.
• We observe that during the last years of observation, it is the humanities that realized the largest increase in the rate of open access publications compared to 2018, going from 36% in 2018 to 80% in 2022.

This graph represents the percentage of scientific publications deposited in an open archive per year of observation resulting from ANR-funded projects.

To note:

• In 2023, 80% of scientific publications published in 2022 resulting from an ANR-funded project, were registered in an open archive.
• From 2019, the implementation of an open science policy in the ANR’s calls for proposals contributes to the increase of publications that are available on an open archive. Indeed, since 2019, the ANR requires open access to publications through an open archive or via a local institutional archive (and via HAL from 2020) regardless of the publication route chosen by the researcher.

This graph shows the proportion of publications for which a mention of dataset sharing was detected among publications that mention data production and use. This detection is achieved through an automatic analysis of the full text of the publication by the Data Set tool.

To note:

• From 2019, ANR grantees are committed to facilitating the sharing and reuse of research data - particularly for publication-related data - by adopting a so-called FAIR approach (« Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable ») in accordance with the principle "as open as possible, as closed as necessary".
   
• In 2023, 26% of publications that mention the production and use of data also mention the sharing of a dataset. This is 12 points more than in 2016.