Coddington, who advised Shattuck on the report, called the paper "a compendium [of recent federal research restrictions], which illustrates that the forests is getting much larger."

Like most other major federal grant recipients, Harvard handles most cases on a contract-by-contract basis, rather than fighting federal policy as a whole, University officials said. "Most cases we've been able to negotiate in a very quiet way," said Patricia R. Benfari of Harvard's office of Sponsored Research.

Non-Defense Infringements

Shattuck's report, however, cited the increased incidence of prepublications and other restrictions in non-defense contracts awarded to Harvard in recent years.

"Some of the most restrictive proposed contract clauses contained in non-technology, social research contracts." the report stated. It cited examples of prepublication restrictions-most eventually removed through negotiation-in grants from the National Institute of Health, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental protection Agency.

"I simply hadn't been aware of the contract restrictions in other [non-defense] areas," said Robert M. Rosenzweig, president of the Association of American Universities, a coalition of 50 major research universities including Harvard.

Rosenzweig and Coddington agreed that the report's value is in its completeness in covering the various federal policies which affect academic freedom.

"To the extent that it serves as a comprehensive sort of Iayman's guide to federal violations of academic freedom, it will be useful," said Yale University General Coursed Lindsey C. Kiang, who had not yet seen the report.

Shattuck said he timed the study's release to coincide with relative calm on Capital Hill. He said that universities needed to convince other segments of society--including Industry and the press--that federal inroads into a academic freedom boded ill for them too