1. H. Frederick Dylla
Executive Director and CEO
American Institute of Physics
CrossMark: Standardizing Funding
Information in Scholarly Journal Articles
CrossRef Annual General Meeting
London,UK
November 16, 2010

2. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Key points
• Acknowledgement to CrossRef for important contributions to
the deliberations of the US Scholarly Publishing Roundtable
• CrossRef can continue to contribute to public debates on
access and interoperability through wide adoption of
CrossMark and inclusion of funding agency attribution.

3. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Scholarly Publishing Roundtable
Convened in 2009 by the Committee on Science and
Technology of the United States House of
Representatives, in coordination with the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
“to explore and develop an appropriate consensus
regarding access to and preservation of federally
funded research information that addresses the needs
of all interested parties.”
Issued report on January 12, 2010
http://science.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=2710

4. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Follow-up by US Congress: public access language in the
America COMPETES Reauthorization Bill
• Directs OSTP to establish a “working group” under the NSTC to “coordinate
Federal science agency research and policies related to dissemination and
…stewardship of results of unclassified research including digital data and peer
reviewed publications…”
• “solicit input from, and collaborate with, non-Federal stakeholders”
• “work with international counterparts to maximize interoperability”
•Note: not a list of specific mandates
•Continues deliberative process with stakeholders begun under Roundtable

5. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
CrossRef’s contributions
CrossRef’s achievements and plans were essential input to the
Roundtable’s deliberations and recommendations:
• Interoperability standards to promote access (DOI’s)
• Version of Record
- clear notation is needed to electronically watermark the
VoR to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record
- CrossMark provides this tool for publishers (and the
community)

6. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Funding agency credit
CrossRef members can provide an additional valuable service to
authors, readers, and the agencies funding scholarship by
adding the funding agent(s) to the standard metadata
• Such data is presently inconsistently provided
• A publisher led initiative (through CrossRef) for consistent
provision of such data would be viewed favorably by funders
• CrossMark provides a simple field where such data can be
entered by the publisher/author
• Value added providers of such information would not suffer
(example: full and free available of US Patent Office data)

7. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Answering needs
 Funder acknowledgment often condition of
the award to grant-holders
 However, no industry standard or guidance
 Many publishers include provision in XML
 Funders unable to consolidate or evaluate
research output

8. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Staying relevant
Providing relevant information to readers
Fostering transparency in the published
research output
Facilitating funder connections
Enabling universal access to funding
information

9. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Benefits for researchers
Transparency
Clear
guidance
Satisfy funder
requirements
Consistency

10. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Benefits for research funders
Compliance Monitoring
Evaluation Consistency

11. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Benefits for publishers
Service Transparency
Funder
connection
Consistency

12. CrossRef Annual General Meeting

13. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Next Steps
• Technical details have to worked out
• Development of CrossRef standard for funding
agency information
• Encouragement of adoption by publishers and
authors

14. CrossRef Annual General Meeting
November 16, 2010
Acknowledgments
• Roundtable members
• Ed Pentz and Geoff Bilder (CrossRef)
• Financial support of Roundtable by AAU and PSP-AAP