The FundRef funder identification service provides a standard way to report funding sources for published scholarly research. CrossRef facilitates FundRef by encouraging collaboration between funding bodies and scholarly publishers. CrossRef has provided the following tools: 
FundRef Search
A beta search of FundRef metadata records deposited during the pilot phase of FundRef in 2012-2013. As additional publishers join FundRef, FundRef search will return additional results. The existing data includes records representing all of the funding bodies that were part of the pilot plus additional data other agencies.
FundRef Registry
The FundRef Registry is a taxonomy of 4000 funder names, abbreviations, and alternate names donated by Elsevier. This controlled vocabulary is freely available and can be incorporated into manuscript submission systems.The CHallenge
- Lack of standard funding sources names and metadata makes it difficult to analyze or mine the text.
- Funding bodies cannot easily track the output of their expenditures.
- Publishers cannot easily identify the major funders of the research they publish.
- Research institutions cannot easily identify major funders of their employees’ scholarly output.
HOW FUNDREF WORKS
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Who DOEs FUNDREF BENEFIT?
- Funding organizations, which will be able to better track the results of their funding policies.
- Authors, in simplifying their submission process
- Research institutions, which will be able to track the productivity of their employees
- Publishers, which will be able to analyze the sources of funding for their published content, and
- Readers and the public, by providing greater transparency into the results of R&D funding.
TO GET STARTED
Publishers- Sign up for FundRef
- Ask manuscript tracking system vendors to incorporate FundRef Registry
- Ask production vendors to support FundRef metadata enhancements to CrossRef schema for deposits
- Ask authors to select funding information on submission
- Submit FundRef data to CrossRef
- Display FundRef data on CrossMark Record tab (optional)
- Query CrossRef for funding data.
Research Institutions
- Query for ORCID, funder name, or author name at FundRef Search, or other CrossRef query services, (CrossRef Metadata Search, affiliate Query account, OpenURL, Linked Data, or CrossRef Metadata Services) to retrieve funding information.
Researchers
- Complete FundRef Information upon manuscript submission
- View FundRef Information on CrossMark Record tab.
- Query for funding information at FundRef Search or CrossRef Metadata Search.
Publishers |
Funders |
American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
US Department of Energy |
American Psychological Association (APA) |
US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Elsevier Science |
US National Science Foundation |
IEEE |
Wellcome Trust |
Nature Publishing Group |
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Oxford University Press |
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Wiley-Blackwell |
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Additional Resources
- Search for funders by name: FundRef Search
- Attend an Introduction to FundRef Webinar - Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 11:00 am EDT
- Frequently asked questions about FundRef.
- CrossRef Board of Directors Approves FundRef Tracking Service
- To see how FundRef works view the FundRef workflow (PDF).
- For a short synopsis view the printable summary (PDF).
- FundRef Pilot News Release, May 2012
- FundRef PIlot Report, March 2013 (PDF)
Why CrossRef
CrossRef creates services for the scholarly community that require technical and business collaboration among organizations that cannot be done more efficiently by a single entity. The deposit and query infrastructure, and the business agreements in place already provide for a way for a large number of publishers members to share metadata to accomplish reference linking, Cited-by linking, plagiarism screening, and version tracking. FundRef meets these criteria, and can be provided with a minimum of new overhead and investment.
For more information please contact: fundref@crossref.org
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