Acknowledgement of funders in journal articles
The Research Information Network (RIN - http://www.rin.ac.uk/) worked with funders in the UK, Wiley-Blackwell and CrossRef to come up with some very reasonable guidelines on the acknowledgement of research funders in scholarly journal articles. The full document is available on the RIN website - http://www.rin.ac.uk/funders-acknowledgement).
If all the parties work together there will be a virtuous circle - funders instruct grantees on how to cite the funder and grant numbers in publications, authors follow these instructions when submitting papers to journals and publishers pick up the standard funder names and grant numbers, tag them and list the information in a separate section. Publishers add value and the funders can assess the results of funding.
A number of publishers already include separate "Funding" sections in papers and the RIN guidance includes a number of examples for publishers on how to tag grant funder names and grant numbers in XML and how this information can be displayed in articles.
A number of OUP journals include a "Funding" section: http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/6/806#SEC6
Some PLOS journals have the same - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000004
We hope that the NLM and others in the US will pick up on this work and apply it. In addition, the NLM DTD needs to be updated to better capture this information.