Elsevier Participates in Project to Make R&D Investments More Transparent

Elsevier Participates in Project to Make R&D Investments More Transparent PR Newswire AMSTERDAM, November 22, 2012 AMSTERDAM, November 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FundRef aims to standardize reporting of funding sources of research Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today highlights its participation in FundRef, a collaborative pilot project between scholarly publishers and funding agencies, facilitated by CrossRef. The aim of the project is to develop a standard mechanism for gathering and disseminating information about funding sources of published scholarly research. Currently governments and other research funders do not have an easy or standard way to track publications that result from their funding. As they are increasingly required to report on the outcomes of the research they have supported, this becomes a problem. At the same time, standard bibliographic data for scholarly publications do not always include funding source information, which means mining publication data to track funding sources is difficult. FundRef aims to provide a solution for both problems. Elsevier's participation in the pilot is marked by its provision of a funding body registry that provides a standardized taxonomy of 4,000 international funding agencies, including unique IDs for each.