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.

FundRef Deposits

FundRef deposit statistics.

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

FundRef Registry provides a taxonomy of 4000 standardized funder names.
Manuscript tracking system vendors incorporate FundRef Registry into the publication submission processes. Publishers ask authors to select correct funders and provide grant numbers upon manuscript submission.
Funder information transferred to publisher production systems.
Publishers send funder information to CrossRef
Funders and others query CrossRef and receive DOIs and metadata for articles resulting from their funding.
Publishers may display FundRef data in CrossMark Record tab.

FundRef Workflow

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 funder name at FundRef Search, or any metadata field (ORCID, author name, DOI) at 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.

Pilot Participants

Publishers
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Psychological Association (APA)
Elsevier Science
IEEE
Nature Publishing Group
Oxford University Press
Wiley-Blackwell

Funders
US Department of Energy
US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
US National Science Foundation
Wellcome Trust

FundRef Members

American Chemical Society
American Diabetes Association
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society
American Psychiatric Publishing
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Internet Medical Publishing
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
IOP Publishing
Just Medical Media Limited
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD)
Kowsar Medical Institute
Landes Bioscience
National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board, Republic of Korea
Optical Society of America (OSA)
The Royal Society

Additional Resources

Search for funders by name: FundRef Search
FundRef Help
Sign up for a FundRef Webinar
- Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11 am EDT
- Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11 am EST
Listen to a pre-recorded FundRef Webinar (.mov)
FundRef in the news
Frequently asked questions about FundRef.
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 News Release, March 2013
FundRef News Release, May 2013
FundRef NewsRelease, July 2013
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

Updated October 4, 2013