chorus: a collaborative approach to public access
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Carol Anne Meyer
CrossRef
@meyercarol
ORCID: 0000-0003-2443-2804
CHORUS
A Collaborative Approach to Public
AccessAAP/PSP
6 February 2014
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date
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The Problem
<fn fn-type="financial-disclosure">
<p>This work was supported in part by NIH
grant R01 GM094800B to G.J.J., a gift to Caltech
from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and
a stipend from the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung
to M.P. The funders had no role in study design,
data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or
preparation of the manuscript.</p>
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<title>Funding</title>
<p>This work was supported by the
<grant-sponsor
xlink:href="http://www.grf.org"
id="GS1">Generic Research
Foundation</grant-sponsor>, the
<grant-sponsor
xlink:href="http://www.energy.gov"
id="GS2">Department of Energy</grant-
sponsor> Office of Science grant
number <grant-num rid="GS2">DE-FG02-
04ER63803</grant-num>, and the <grant-
sponsor
xlink:href="http://www.nih.gov"
id="GS3">National Institutes of
Health</grant-sponsor>.
</p>
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Funding bodies cannot easily track the published
output of funding
Publishers cannot easily report which articles
result from research supported by specific
funders or grants
Institutions cannot easily link funding received to
published output
Lack of standard metadata for funding sources
makes it difficult to analyze or mine the data
Why does this
matter?
National Institutes of Health
NIH? N.I.H.? National Institute of Health?
Abbreviations, misspellings, translations...
The Solution
Publishe
rs
Relationship with
authors submitting
manuscripts
Established
publishing
and peer-
review
systems
Funders
Relationship with
researchers funded by
agencies
Established award
systems and
research
management
processes
InstitutionsRelationship with
researchers
The public
FundRef Pilot
5500 funder names and ID numbers from
curated Elsevier SciVal registry, donated to
FundRef
Hosted by CrossRef, available under CC0
Updated and extended monthly—
Publishers use this list to ensure consistency
The FundRef Registry is
taxonomy of 5500 funder names.
www.crossref.org/fundref/fundref_registry.html
FundRef
Registry
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder Production
Systems
CrossRef
Database &
Query APIs
Funders
Researchers
Institutions
Publishers
SHARE
DOI
Funding
Source
Award
Number
Submission Workflow1. Collect funding data from authors on submission
using FundRef Registry taxonomy
Workflow Issues1. Collect funding data from authors on submission
using FundRef Registry taxonomy
http://www.crossref.org/fundref
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder Production
Systems
Implementation2. Pass funding data from submission system to
production systems
Publish
er
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder Production
Systems
Implementation2. Pass funding data from submission system to
production systems
Publish
er
Editorial
Check
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder Production
Systems
Implementation2. Pass funding data from submission system to
production systems
Publish
er
Editorial
Check
Workflow3. Deposit FundRef data with
CrossRef
CrossMark participants should
deposit FundRef data within
CrossMark deposits
CrossMark participation
recommended for standard
display of funding information
Workflow3. Deposit funding data with
CrossRef
Search for funder
Results
Search by other metadata
• 52,000 + unique documents with
FundRef records
• 71,000 + funder-document relationships
• 80% of the funder names from these
relationships are in the FundRef
Registry
So, how are we doing?
American Chemical Society
American Diabetes Association
American Institute of Physics
American Psychiatric Publishing
American Psychological Association
American Physical Society
American Society of Neuroradiology
Association for Computing Machinery
BioMed Central
Bioscientifica
Copernicus GmBH
eLife Sciences Publications
Elsevier
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
International Union of Crystallography
Internet Medical Publishing
IOP Publishing
Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development
Just Medical Media, Ltd.
Kowsar Medical Institute
Landes Bioscience
National Library of Serbia
Optical Society of America
Oxford University Press
Royal Society of Chemistry
ScienceOpen
Taylor & Francis
The Royal Society
Wiley-Blackwell
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9 publishers of 30 signed up
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• CrossRef (with FundRef) provides the social and
technology standards and practices that makes
CHORUS possible.
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correct documents
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about ORCID, FundRef, Open Access Indicator, Text
and Data mining
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(APIs) and search interfaces will serve these new
types of data.
But, what does all this have to do with
CHORUS?
• CrossRef staff participate on the Technical Working
Groups of CHORUS and SHARE
• CrossRef also has expressed an openness to make
its infrastrure available for other public access
initiatives.
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