CrossRef Annual Meeting 2012 FundRef Fred Dylla

CrossRef Annual General MeetingNovember 14, 2012

Progress Report on the

FundRef Initiative

H. Frederick DyllaExecutive Director and CEO

American Institute of Physics


A collaborative pilot project of scholarly publishers and

funding agencies, facilitated by CrossRef, to provide a standard

way of reporting funding sources for published scholarly

research.

FundRef


Currently there is no standard practice for attributing published works to their funding sources, making it difficult for all stakeholders (funders, researchers, publishers, and the public) to track or analyze published results.

A common solution, developed through a unique collaboration, is

emerging.

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The Challenge


Funding agencies◦ To easily identify and track published results of

funded research, i.e., improve accountability. Publishers

◦ To analyze funding sources of published content through industry-wide practice(s)

Researchers ◦ To simplify submission process across systems

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Stakeholder Benefits


Funders

US Department of Energy (DOE)

US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Wellcome Trust

Participants in Pilot ProjectPublishers

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

American Psychological Association (APA)

Elsevier Science

IEEE

Nature Publishing Group

Oxford University Press

Wiley

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Timetable for Pilot

March 2012 Project officially launched after CrossRef Board approval

April - Dec Working Group and subgroups define, develop, and assess pilot service and workflow

Early 2013 To issue recommendations for path forward


Goals of the FundRef Pilot To explore feasibility of publishers adding funder

metadata (standard funder name and grant number) and depositing a set of test records to CrossRef and CrossMark for access.

To define requirements for a standard nomenclature, i.e., a Funder Registry, for the capture and display of funding sources.

To demonstrate an industry-wide methodology for connecting scholarly publications to research funders.


Elsevier’s SciVal funding body vocabulary of ~4,000 funder names made available for pilot project.

Publishers added metadata (funder name and grant number) to sets of test records for deposit to CrossRef.

Publishers have begun working with manuscript tracking system vendors to add funder data at submission.

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Pilot Progress to Date


CrossRef added funder name and grant number as part of regular CrossRef deposit with the option of including data in CrossMark.

CrossRef developed query API and will make metadata available through normal channels.

Soon, funders and other stakeholders will begin to test use of the pilot data using the query API, e.g., to find published results of research awards.

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Pilot Progress to Date (Continued)




Handout available; includes the FundRef Workflow.(first distributed at October’s Frankfurt Book Fair and STM Meeting.)

Pilot to run through beginning of 2013; more information to come.

For updates, go to http://tinyurl.com/fundref

See CrossRef project page at:www.crossref.org/fundref

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H. Frederick DyllaExecutive Director and CEO

American Institute of [email protected]

Acknowledgements:Ed Pentz, Geoff Bilder, CrossRef Sharon Jordan, CrossRef Consultant

CrossRef Annual Meeting 2012 FundRef Fred Dylla

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