National Science Board - News - NSB News Release: The Importance of Providing Open Science

"Scientific articles that are freely available to the public grew by more than seven-fold in volume and increased in influence relative to those behind paywalls from 2003 to 2022, according to a new report. In 2022, 51% of articles, of which status we know, were in open access journals compared to 23% in 2003. 

These and similar trends are in the Publications Output: U.S. Trends and International Comparisons report that the National Science Board published today as part of the 2024 congressionally mandated Science and Engineering Indicators suite of products on the state of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. The reports are prepared by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics under the Board’s guidance...."