From:  Fred Dylla <[log in to unmask]>
Date:Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:28 PM

Concerning the recent Liblicense postings on publisher's interest in
including funder information: all stakeholders in scholarly publishing
including publishers should have an interest in who funds the research
described in an article.

Crossref has been instrumental in helping to make funding agencies
visible. In 2010, I presented a proposal at Crossref's Annual General
Meeting for Crossref to consider adding funder information to the
existing metadata that is collected from publishers. Crossref
subsequently organized and managed a pilot project in 2012-2013 called
Fundref that involved a collaboration among four funding agencies and
seven publishers. The pilot project was given a significant jump start
by Elsevier's donation of its extensive funder database extracted from
Scopus.

After the successful completion of the pilot, Fundref was opened up to
participation by all publishers. Crossref renamed its service the
Crossref Funder Registry and it currently lists over 14,200 funders. A
recent check with Crossef shows  1.2 million articles with at least
one named funder and additional searches can be done here:
http://search.crossref.org/funding

Fred Dylla
Executive Director Emeritus
American Institute of Physics