funding data for research
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Carol Anne MeyerBusiness Development and Marketing
CrossRef
@meyercarol
ORCID: 0000-0003-2443-2804
Funding for ResearchHow CrossRef Funding Data Addresses Public Access and
Accountability through FundRef
Association of American Publishers/Professional and Scholarly Publishers
(AAP/PSP)
Electronic Information Committee Seminar Series
12 June 2014
A not-for-profit trade association of
global scholarly publishers
CrossRef has 1900 members,
representing 4627 publishers
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Members come from 81 countries
LinkingReference Linking Cited-by Linking
Discovery and DeliveryCrossRef Metadata Services Bibliographic Management
CrossRef Metadata Search Document Delivery
Multiple Resolution Link Resolvers
CrossRef APIs
EvaluatingCrossCheck Article Level Metrics
CrossMark PreScore
FundRef
CollaboratingLinked Data Text and Data Mining
FundRef NISO OA Indicator
Threaded Publications Journal Article Tag Set (JATS)
Enables
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Now we have 90 affiliates and 2045
libraries
Our community includes
Affiliates and Libraries
We generate more than a billion
annual “clicks” to our member
publishers’ sites
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The Long Tail of Members
Mission
To be a trusted collaborative organization with
broad community connections; authoritative
and innovative in support of a persistent,
sustainable infrastructure for scholarly
communication.
Improving scholarly
communication through
community collaboration
6-Word Mission
Journals79%
Books13%
Conference Proceedings
6%Components
2%
CrossRef DOIs Not just for Journals
• Protein Data Bank
• Standards in Genomic Science
• Organization for Economic Development (OECD)
• Public Library of Science
• International Union of Crystallography (IUCR)
More than 1 million data
items/figures/components have
CrossRef DOIs
• author (s)
• journal title
• article title
• volume
• issue
• publication
date
• ISSN
• page numbers
• article IDs
• internal
identifiers
• URL
• DOI
Sample CrossRef
Bibliographic Metadata
Additional CrossRef
Metadata
• ORCID
• CrossMark
Updates (related CrossRef DOIs)
Publication record information• Text and Data Mining Data
• NISO Open Access Identifier
NISO OA Metadata &
Indicators
• 2 simple tags:
“free_to_read”
“license_ref”
• Embargo periods supported
Additional Metadata
for
• 3 simple tags:
funder_name
funder_identifier
award_number
FundRef
A standard way of reporting funding
sources for published scholarly research
Launched May 2013
FundRef
For further reading
http://fundref.crossref.org/docs/funder_kpi_metadata_best_practice.html
The Funding
Attribution 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
InstitutionsFunder compliance education
Track funding received
The Public
Authors
Want accountability for how
contributions/taxes spent
Have funding
information at
submission
FundRef
FundRef Pilot brought
together Publishers and
Funders
The FundRef Registry is
taxonomy of 6100 funder
names
www.crossref.org/fundref/fundref_registry.html
6100 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
More on The FundRef
Registry
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
Implementatio
n2. Pass funding data from submission system to
production systems
Publish
er
Editorial
Check
http://labs.crossref.org
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
Search by Grant Number
Search by CrossRef DOI
Search by ORCID
How to participate
1. Encourage researchers to submit FundRef info at
manuscript submission. (Hint: Ask for ORCIDs too!)
2. Use FundRef Search, CrossRef Metadata Search &
CrossRef APIs to retrieve funding information
3. Provide feedback on the tools
4. Use FundRef Registry for funding analysis
5. Always use CrossRef DOIs and ORCIDs when citing
research output
• 123,000+ unique documents with
FundRef records
• 66% of the funder names from these
relationships are in the FundRef
Registry
So, How Are We Doing?
AAAS
ACSESS
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)
Grupo Comunicar
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
International Union of Crystallography
Internet Medical Publishing
IOP Publishing
Journal of Humanity
Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development
Just Medical Media, Ltd.
KAMJE
Kowsar Medical Institute
Landes Bioscience
MDPI AG
National Library of Serbia
Optical Society of America
Oxford University Press
Royal Society of Chemistry
ScienceOpen
Spandidos Publications
Taylor & Francis
The Royal Society
Wiley-Blackwell
http://www.crossref.org/fundref/fundref_agreement.html
These 39 publishers have signed
up
Publishers: sign up now!
FundRef Terms & Conditions:
www.crossref.org/fundref
No fees for FundRef deposits
• CrossRef (with FundRef) provides the social and
technology standards and practices that makes
CHORUS and SHARE possible.
• CrossRef DOIs directs interested parties to the
correct documents
• CrossRef’s existing metadata database will hold data
about ORCID, FundRef, Open Access Indicator, Text
and Data mining
• CrossRef’s Application Programming Interfaces
(APIs) and search interfaces will serve these new
types of data.
PS: What Does CrossRef Funding Data Have to
Do With Public Access?
FundRef
• CrossRef staff participates on CHORUS and SHARE
committees
• CrossRef also has expressed an openness to make
its infrastructure available for other public access
initiatives
• CrossRef does not do custom development for
projects that are specific to that project and not
generalizable to the industry.
Full Disclosure:
CrossRef Plays the Field
www.crossref.org/fundref
Thank you!