Chris Shillum introduced himself as VP of Product Management at Elsevier and member of CrossRef and FundRef groups. He described FundRef as a standard for reporting funding sources for published research. FundRef matters because funding bodies, publishers, and institutions currently cannot easily link funding to published outputs due to a lack of standardized funding metadata. FundRef aims to address this issue through a pilot project linking DOIs to funding sources and award numbers in publisher metadata submitted to CrossRef.

1. Introducing
Chris Shillum
VP Product Management, Platform and Content, Elsevier
Member, CrossRef Board, FundRef Advisory Group
*Many slides gratefully stolen from Ed Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef

2. Not-for-profit membership association of
scholarly publishers
Assigns DOIs and maintains central
metadata for scholarly content
4000+ international publishers
All subjects, all business models
83 non-publisher affiliates, 2000 library
affiliates
62.7 million content items

3. A standard way of reporting funding
sources for published scholarly research

4. 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

6. Funding: This research was funding by the
Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Germany (Dr.
Shiffer). The funders has no role in the study
design, data collection and analysis, decision to
publish or preparation of the manuscript

8. <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>
</fn>
</fn-group>
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9. National Institutes of Health
NIH? N.I.H.? National Institute of
Health?
Abbreviations, misspellings,
translations...

10. Funders
Publishers
Established award
systems and research
management processes
Established publishing
and peer-review
systems
Relationship with
researchers funded by
agencies
Relationship with
authors submitting
manuscripts

11. FundRef Pilot

12. FundRef Registry
4000 funder names and ID numbers from
curated SciVal registry, donated by Elsevier
to FundRef
Hosted by CrossRef, available under CC0
Will be added to and updated
Publishers use this list to ensure
consistency
www.crossref.org/fundref/fundref_registry.html

13. FundRef Search
Tool &
Query APIs
FundRef
Registry
Publisher
Submission System
Funder
Grant Number
Production
Systems
Funders
Researchers
Institutions
Publishers

14. DOI
Funding
Source
Award
Number

15. Use Cases
Funders
• Measure research outputs
• Ensure compliance with OA mandates
Institutions
• Measure research outputs
• Populate CRIS systems
• Ensure compliance with funder mandates
Publishers
• Ensure compliance with institutional and
funder mandates
• Identify high-impact content

16. DOI
Funding
Source
Award
Number

17. Look up funding data
http://search.crossref.org/fundref

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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
Bioscienti!ca
Elsevier
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
International Union of Crystallography
• Internet Medical Publishing
• IOP Publishing
• Journal of Rehabilitation Research &
Development
• Just Medical Media, Ltd.
• Kowsar Medical Institute
• Landes Bioscience
• Optical Society of America
• Oxford University Press
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• The Royal Society
• Wiley-Blackwell
http://www.crossref.org/fundref/fundref_agreement.html

21. Publishers: sign up now!
FundRef Terms & Conditions: www.crossref.org/fundref
No fees for FundRef deposits
Everyone else: no action required!
No need to “join” - querying freely
available via both the search tool and
FundRef API

22. Thank you!
www.crossref.org/fundref
c.shillum@elsevier.com
@cshillum