The Optical Society (OSA) has implemented a new service that enables easy reporting of funding sources for scholarly research articles published in its portfolio of peer-reviewed journals. The newly launched FundRef service from CrossRef enables authors to specify the funding agency that their research was supported by, which in turn allows the agencies to track adherence to their policies, research institutions to better document researcher productivity and publishers to analyse the sources of funding for their published content.
OSA implemented this service in support of the myriad stakeholders needing access to this data and as part of its participation in CHORUS - a large group of Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) publishers working together to provide the US federal agencies with a cost-free solution to comply with the US Office of Science & Technology Policy open-access guidelines issued earlier this year.
FundRef offers a registry of 4,000 standardised funder names as well as tools for depositing and sharing funding information through the trusted CrossRef system. Authors are able to select the corresponding funding agency and provide grant numbers when they submit their papers to OSA journals. Once the paper is published, OSA automatically indexes the funding information into the FundRef system. Users may then search articles in CrossRef by funding source.
