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 Work Programme and from theFrance 2030 programme since the 2016 editions.

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 January 30, 2025.

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.

Regardless of the publication route chosen by the researcher, the coordinator and partners of projects funded by the ANR commit to submit their publications:

In 2019: in an institutional open archive such as HAL or in a local variation
Since 2020: in HAL with the mention of the ANR research project id (e.g. ANR-22-CE64-00014)
Since 2022: in HAL, at the time of publication at the latest, with a CCBY license

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 Work Programme and France 2030 projects since the 2016 editions. These publications are collected from the following sources:

The section "Publications and Communications" of the final reports
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

As part of its commitment to open science and its will to promote open research practices, the ANR signed the Barcelona Declaration in April 2024.

The signatories of the Barcelona Declaration make the following four commitments:

Making openness of research information the default,
Working with services and systems that support and enable open research information,
Supporting the sustainability of infrastructures for open research information,
Working together to realize the transition from closed to open research information

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.

To note: We can observe a steady increase in the open access rate from 65.3% in 2019 to 88.6% in 2023, representing an increase of 23.3 points.

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 2021 edition, 90% of publications resulting from an Work Programme or a France 2030 project published in 2023 are available in open access in 2024.
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 2023 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 66% in 2016, the rate of publications reported on an open archive has increased to 85% in 2023.

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 2024, 91% of publications resulting from mathematics projects were made available in open access.
We observe that during the last years of observation, it is the chemistry that realized the largest increase in the rate of open access publications compared to 2018, going from 37% % in 2018 to 89% in 2024.

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 2024, 81% of scientific publications published in 2023 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.

Created in December 2020 in collaboration with the CCSD ;
216 566 deposit in the portal, including 136 439 full-text deposit and 21 760 deposit in 2024 (data from April 2024) ;
It allows a search by project, by program, by project id, by author or by keyword with the possibility of crossing filters ;
The ANR Thematic reports, the Projects the ANR Focus as well as the annual summaries of regional monitoring of the PIA and France 2030 projects are available on the portal.
In order to facilitate and promote the adoption of a CCBY license, a CCBY license will be assigned by default in HAL if no license has been applied to the document at the time of deposit. Anytime the author can modify the license in the metadata.

To note:

We observe a clear increase of the publications that mention the sharing of their data to 19% from 2019 to 30% in 2023.
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.

Last updated on 15 May 2025