U.S. General Accounting Office
Survey on Federally Funded Research at Institutions of Higher Education (GAO-04-223SP)
Q1. 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?

We do not have any policy that addresses this issue. (percent) Our policy does not allow sponsors to delay publication under any circumstances. (percent) Our policy allows our institution to let sponsors delay publication under some circumstances. (percent) Uncertain (percent) No answer (percent) Number of respondents
2.9 1.8 92.4 1.2 1.8 171