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Weâve been talking a lot about infrastructure here at Crossref, and how the metadata we gather and organize is the foundation for so many services - those we provide directly - and those services that use our APIs to access that metadata, such as <span ><a href="http://www.growkudos.com" target="_blank">
Kudos</a><span >
 and <a href="http://www.chorusaccess.org/about/about-chorus/"><span >
CHORUS</a><span >
, which in turn provide the wider world of researchers, administrators, and funders with tailored information and tools.
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The initiative formerly known as FundRef </b>
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Together Crossrefâs <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131229210637/http://search.crossref.org//funding" target="_blank">
funding data</a>
(previously known as FundRef  â we simplified the name)  and the <a href="/services/funder-registry/" target="_blank">
Open Funder Registry</a>
, our taxonomy of grant-giving organizations, comprise a hub for gathering and querying metadata related to the questions:
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âWho funded this research?â </i></b>``<span >
and <b><i>
âWhere has the research we funded been published?â```