Crossref connects grants to published research outputs persistently, openly and at scale. As a funder member, you can leverage your funding metadata to track your funding activities, increase transparency and accountability and meet your open science ambitions, all while helping shape the infrastructure that the global research community relies upon.
Funders contribution to the research nexus
Crossref’s work is guided by the research nexus vision: an interconnected open network of relationships connecting research organisations, people, things, and actions; a scholarly record that the global community can build on forever, for the benefit of society. Funders are a foundational node in that network, holding essential information that contextualises the entire research endeavor.
Funders and open infrastructure
By becoming a Crossref member, you will join 24,000 organisations globally in sharing open metadata, stregthening the research nexus and contributing to the open infrastructure the scholarly community depends on. Membership also positions you as an active participant in that infrastructure, ensuring your views, needs and contributions carry equal weitgh alongside every other member.
Crossref Grant Linking System
You can register your funding metadata with Crossref Grant Linking System. By doing so, you will create a persistent and machine-readable information layer that connects your grants to the more than 180 million research outputs and more than 24,000 members in the Crossref data ecosystem.
Crossref Grant Linking System supports the sharing of open funding metadata and Crossref Grant DOIs, so funding flows transparently through the scholarly record
We make this information available via a funder search interface and via our public REST API so that it can be seamlessly integrated into downstream systems.
The benefits of registering research grants with Crossref
Crossref grant DOIs and their related metadata increase the discoverability, traceability, transparency and interoperability of your funding information. Crossref’s Grant DOIs can be linked to research outputs through metadata, making it easier to track funding flows and demonstrate the impact of your support. By registering your funding metadata with Crossref you can:
→ See where do your grantees publish in and whether their outputs are open access
→ Connect grants to published research outputs, datasets and preprints via the Grant Linking System
→ Increase funding transparency and accountability through open funding metadata
→ Support evidence-based portfolio and policy decision making
Get in touch
If you have any questions about membership or registering grants, then our membership team can help. Our technical support specialists can also help with questions about the GLS, our APIs or grant registration.
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