monica omodei caul/ands webinar – “joining the dots” july 17, 2014 identification of funders...
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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