FundRef provides a standard way to report funding sources for published scholarly research. This standard has been developed by CrossRef to help devise a standardized way of reporting the funding agency that supported the research being published. There are multiple benefits to using the FundRef standard such as providing a standardized reporting structure for funding provided by different agencies, the ability to text-mine or find similar research funded by specific agencies, publishers can readily identify which research may need to be made open access due to the funding body, and to help academic institutions identify major funding sources for the research produced at their institution. The FundRef registry provides the taxonomy of funder names and manuscript tracking agencies can incorporate this taxonomy to help researchers self-identify the funding body at the time of article submission. Publishers can then query CrossRef and link up the FundRef identifier with the digital object identifier (DOI) of the article. Publishers can also add the FundRef identifier to CrossMark information tabs. Librarians can benefit from also incorporating FundRef data into their institutional repositories and publishing platforms as a way to track when research should be made open access as well as to help research offices track funding sources of the research produced on their campus. The best thing about FundRef is the taxonomy is readily available to any institution to use through a freely available API and The FundRef Registry, which is available via a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license to anyone to use.
Meyer, Carol Anne. (2013) “FundRef Service from CrossRef Spurs Publisher-Funder Collaboration,” Professional Scholarly Publishing Bulletin. V.12 no.3 p. 1, 11-13.
FundRef has not been quite as widely adopted by publishers as ORCID has been but this is a standard that was only fully released in spring 2013. It is hoped that there will be greater adoption will be made by publishers in the coming years.
3.1 Open Access Metadata & Indicators
3.2 ORCID
3.3 FundRef
3.4 CrossMark
3.5 Preservation & Storage Formats
3.6 Alternative Metric Schemes
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