And any kind of large-scale analysis is extramely hard without a means to get hold of the data in a machine-readable formatįunding bodies cannot easily track the published Research, and this impacts funding bodies, publishers and institutions.

So why is this important? Without any central database or standard way to store or search this data, all of the stakeholders struggle to get the information they need to fully analyze the outputs of funded ! top of this there’s the lack of standardization in naming of the funding bodies themselves. And not all publishers are making this information mandatory on submission, so there will be gaps where authors leave out grant Another might use “Funding Source” and “Award Number”. The tags are likely to vary from publisher to publisher - this publisher uses “Grant Sponsor” and The Department of Energy Office of Science grantĪnd even when publishers do tag up funding information in their XML, as in this example, there are still problems. This is not helpful to a machine or search engine that might be looking for this information. Is grouped together as free text in a paragraph tag. It has its own section and heading, so it stands out to the reader browsing the page, but if you look at the XML all of the information Here’s an article with funding information at the top with the other metadata. One is that it’s mostly very hard to retrieve in any technical way - if you want to extract this information as part of theĪrticle’s metadata, or to search on it you will struggle because many publishers don’t mark this information up in their XML.! There are a couple of issues with the formatting of funding information in publications. Theįunders had no role in study design, data collection andĪnalysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and a stipendįrom the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung to M.P. Grant R01 GM094800B to G.J.J., a gift to Caltech from Now we have 90 affiliates and 2045 libraries We have 1900 voting members, representing 4600 publishers. Why is membership growing steadily? Because publishers think that having DOIs will increase their visibility in the scholarly community. Membership organization of international scholarly publishers. Today I’m going to be introducing and explaining the new FundRef initiative from CrossRef.įirst just a few words about CrossRef for anyone who isn’t a member or might not be familiar with us as an organization. FundRef on the AAP/PSP panel: CHORUS: A Collaborative Approach to Public AccessĪ Collaborative Approach to Public Access

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