Kirsty Meddings

Product Manager

10th November 2015
Funding data

What, why and how?
A not-for-profit scholarly publishing membership
organization working to make content easy to
find, cite, link, and assess.
Over 5000 diverse members
All disciplines, many business models
77 million DOIs, many content types
Funding data at Crossref
A standard way of reporting funding
sources for published scholarly research
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<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>.

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National Institutes of Health
NIH
N.I.H.
National Institute of Health
National Institute for Health
Abbreviations, misspellings, translations...
Why does this matter?
Funding bodies cannot easily track the published
output of funding
Why does this matter?
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
Why does this matter?
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
Why does this matter?
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 analyse or data mine
Why does this matter?
Publishers
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
Crossref
FundRef Pilot
Open Funder Registry
Open Funder Registry
Open Funder Registry
11,500 funder names and ID numbers from
curated Elsevier SciVal registry
Open Funder Registry
11,500 funder names and ID numbers from
curated Elsevier SciVal registry
Hosted by Crossref, available under CC0
Open Funder Registry
11,500 funder names and ID numbers from
curated Elsevier SciVal registry
Hosted by Crossref, available under CC0
Updated and extended regularly
Open Funder Registry
11,500 funder names and ID numbers from
curated Elsevier SciVal registry
Hosted by Crossref, available under CC0
Updated and extended regularly
Publishers use this list to ensure consistency
Open Funder Registry
11,500 funder names and ID numbers from
curated Elsevier SciVal registry
Hosted by Crossref, available under CC0
Updated and extended regularly
Publishers use this list to ensure consistency
www.crossref.org/fundref/fundref_registry.html
Funder
Registry
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder
Production
Systems
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder
Production
Systems
Crossref
Database &
Query APIs
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder
Production
Systems
Crossref
Database &
Query APIs
Funders
Researchers
Institutions
Publishers
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder
Production
Systems
Crossref
Database &
Query APIs
Funders
Researchers
Institutions
Publishers
Publisher
Production Systems/
Typesetter
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Production Systems/
Typesetter
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Production Systems/
Typesetter
Crossref
Database &
Query APIs
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Production Systems/
Typesetter
Crossref
Database &
Query APIs
Funders
Researchers
Institutions
Publishers
Funder
Registry
Publisher
Production Systems/
Typesetter
Crossref
Database &
Query APIs
Funders
Researchers
Institutions
Publishers
DOI
Funding
Source
Award
Number
DOI
Funding
Source
Award
Number
Implementation
1. Collect funding data using Funder Registry taxonomy
“The information submitted here should match the information
provided in the paper’s acknowledgement section.”
Implementation
1. Collect funding data from authors on submission using
Open Funder Registry taxonomy
http://www.crossref.org/fundref
http://labs.crossref.org
Implementation
Widget - http://labs.crossref.org
Implementation
2. Pass funding data from submission system to production
systems
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder
Implementation
2. Pass funding data from submission system to production
systems
Publisher
Submission System
Grant Number
Funder
Production
Systems
Implementation
3. Deposit funding data with Crossref
CrossMark participants should
deposit funding data within
CrossMark deposits
CrossMark participation
recommended for standard
display of funding information
Implementation
3. Deposit funding data with CrossRef
“funder_identifier”>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039.100000001
Implementation
3. Deposit funding data with Crossref
Implementation
3. Deposit funding data with Crossref
http://help.crossref.org
Funder IDs are Critical
Deposits with no funder ID will not be visible in FundRef
Search or API
Crossref will attempt to match deposits with
funder_name only, but this is only picking up 20% of
deposits
The other 80% of funding data deposits with no IDs
remain invisible
Best practices: http://bit.ly/1Qf7R54
Look up funding data
http://search.crossref.org/fundref
http://search.crossref.org
http://api.crossref.org
http://api.crossref.org
Allows other systems to access the funding data
API Access
Latest Stats
180+ publishers & societies
600,000+ DOI deposits
11,500 funders in registry
Crossref’s database is the only central source of standardised
funding acknowledgement metadata from publications
Accuracy of funding metadata is critical
An increasing number of organizations and projects rely on
this funding data to identify content and check compliance
with funder policies
Get involved and make the funding data from your
publications available, accurate and transparent
Summary
Publishers: deposit now!
No fees for funding data deposits
Everyone else: no action required!
No need to“join”- querying freely available
www.crossref.org/fundref
kmeddings@crossref.org
Thank you

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