Monica OmodeiCAUL/ANDS Webinar – “Joining the Dots”

July 17, 2014

Identification of Funders and Grants

Missing Links ….

Why funder identification?• Acknowledgement is necessary for transparency• Using a standard global identifier would allow:• ability to subsequently validate/lookup grant identifier (for

funders who supply grant data)• discovery filtered by funder• easier reporting to funders• linking to more information about the funder

Why grant identification

• Globally unique persistent identifier will resolve to details about the grant

• When publications and datasets are linked to the same research grant, connections can be inferred

• Enables reporting of outputs against research grants

Funders Databases ?• The FundRef Registry maintained by CrossRef

provides a taxonomy of more than 6000 standardized funder names.

• Some journals incorporate the FundRef Registry into their publication submission processes. Authors select a funder(s) but type grant number(s)

• Publishers send this information to CrossRef as part of their metadata deposits for obtaining DOIs.

• CrossRef searching can be filtered by funder• This data is also in CrossMark Record tab • Also available via API

Australian Funders• Needs coordinated effort to assemble normalised

list of funders integrated with FundRef Database• Wise to use existing global identifier scheme

pioneered by Fundref if supported by other Research Data Alliance members

What about grant information ?• ANDS has initiated discussions with

CrosssRef/FundRef and selected publishers to investigate interest in using lookup services for grantIDs in their submission interfaces– eg ANDS Research Grant API, …

• Lead to improved cleanliness of grant number data in FundRef database

• Grant information could then be included in CrossRef and publisher discovery services

Grants Databases ?• ANDS Registry – currently only ARC and NHMRC

grants but plan to include data from other funders• Funders own grant databases – how to aggregate

this data into the ANDS registryInternational• UK Research Councils (API using CERIF schema)• UK Digital Curation Centre in the UK is piloting a Research

Data Registry including grants data• Open AIRE Project - 24,000 research projects funded by the

EC and 9,000 by Wellcome Trust

Publishers• Work with participating journals to enable

controlled submission of Funder and Grant Information (ie standard identifiers) via available databases (eg ANDS Research Grant API)

• Submit funder and grant metadata to CrossRef when obtaining DOIs

• Enhance discovery and display to include funder and grant information via the identifier

• Initial discussions commenced with Elsevier, PLoS, Thomson Reuters

Participating PublishersACSESS American Astronomical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society (ACS)American Diabetes AssociationAmerican Institute of Physics (AIP)American Physical Society (APS)American Psychiatric PublishingAmerican Psychological Association (APA)American Society of NeuroradiologyASMEAssociation for Computing MachineryBioMed Central BioScientificaCopernicus Publications eLife Sciences Organisation FapUNIFESP (SciELO)National Library of SerbiaHindawi Publishing CorporationIEEE, Inc.

iMedPubInforma UK Limited International Union of CrystallographyIOP PublishingJournal of HumanityJournal of Rehabilitation R & DJust Medical Media, Ltd.Kowsar Medical InstituteLandes BioscienceMDPI AGOptical Society of America (OSA)Oxford University Press (OUP)Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)ScienceOpenSciELO The Royal SocietyVeterinary WorldWiley

Journals and Manuscript Tracking Systems• Manuscript Tracking Systems used by journals

need to be enhanced to provide the funder and grant taxonomies in the author submission process

• Submission guidelines and systems need to better support citation of data

• Journal searching/browsing to display funder and grant information

Libraries / Institutions• Submission/update processes (articles and data)

need to be enhanced to ‘link’ to funders and grants

• Submission/update processes for articles need to be enhanced to ‘link’ to research data

• Submission/update processes for data need to be enhanced to ‘link’ to related publications

There are opportunities for software tools to assist with connecting data and publications if they are both tagged with the same research grant

Within a submission/update UI

Note that the identifier is inserted in the metadatahttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP110200495

Links• FundRef - http://fundref.org/fundref/• CrossMark - http://www.crossref.org/crossmark/• Australian subset of funders in FundRef

bit.ly/W5TIBr • Australian Competitive Grants Register

https://www.fin.unsw.edu.au/files/forms/HERDC/2014_ACGR.pdf

• ANDS Research Grant APIhttp://researchdata.ands.org.au/developers/documentation/services/getGrants

• FundRef APIhttp://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc/blob/master/funder_kpi_api.md