U.S. General Accounting Office

Federally Funded Research at Institutions of Higher Education
(GAO-04-223SP)

1.
What is your institution's policy or standard operating procedure (SOP) concerning allowing sponsors (federal or non-federal) to delay the publication of research results under some circumstances? (For this question, and all following questions, standard operating procedure may be either written or unwritten.)
1. We do not have any policy that addresses this issue. Go to Section II. --> (If you checked this response, click here to continue.  )
2. Our policy does not allow sponsors to delay publication under any circumstances. Go to Section II. --> (If you checked this response, click here to continue.  )
3. Our policy allows our institution to let sponsors delay publication under some circumstances --> Please go to Question 2 by clicking on the "Next Page" button below.
4. Uncertain --> Please go to Question 2 by clicking on the "Next Page" button below.
5. No answer

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