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Transparency at Work

ASM strives to maintain a clear and transparent record of scientific progress. A key element to this openness is the accuracy and richness of an article’s metadata, which is accessible to the entire scholarly community. ASM article metadata, however, is not just limited to information about authors, DOIs, abstracts, and citations. As a publisher, we also include robust and verified information regarding funding agencies and their various awards.

Open Funder Registry

The Crossref Funder Registry is an open archive of funders found throughout the world, and their accompanying IDs (much like DOIs for articles and ORCIDs for authors). Using this registry has the following benefits:

  • Funding organizations can easily track published results relating to their grants
  • Monitoring research output by an author’s institution becomes much easier
  • ASM can analyze funding sources to aid authors in ensuring compliance with funder mandates
  • Transparency increases as it relates to who funded the research, the results of that R&D funding, and possible conflicts of interest resulting from that funding

The key to this registry is the ID, which provides an easy way to find and map various funding names found throughout the scholarly record to a single source.

How It Works

ASM collects funding data from authors at two points during an article’s life cycle: at submission and during the page proofing process. These data include funder names and institutions, awards or grant names, and the author(s) receiving that grant.

The absolute best time to provide these funding data is during the submission process. The reason: ASM has chosen to integrate our submission system with the Open Funder Registry, which means that the input is validated as the name is entered. This means that funder names are standardized and mapped to the appropriate ID if one exists.

screenshot of funder info entered

 

These data are then automatically transferred to an article’s metadata for eventual publication.

screenshot of funder info in crossref

Research Is My Game … Not Data Entry

Although ASM has made every effort to provide simple and intuitive methods for entering funder data, we understand that every minute spent typing data into a submission form is a minute taken away from your research. That is why we have created multiple aids in validating and checking this critical information to make this component of the process as automated as possible. These tools can only flag possible errors within the data. They cannot actually resolve them; as a publisher, we cannot confirm or correct the source or recipient of the funding, but we can help authors to deliver the information accurately and ensure that grant organizations and institutions are notified when their funded results enter the scholarly record.

Displaying Funding Information

ASM includes these validated and verified funder names within an article’s metadata, where it is viewable through the Crossmark logo found on each article.

screenshot of funder info in proof

These data are also available to machines and computer programs for analysis by funders, institutions, and other interested organizations. Authors are also permitted to include a free-form version of funding and award information within the Acknowledgments section of an article. Because this section is readable text (as opposed to metadata), it is not limited to the strict requirements of the funding registry, so there is more freedom to include specific program names or non-monetary awards. It is important to note that information found within the Acknowledgments section is not distributed with an article’s metadata and, therefore, will not necessarily be accessible in the same open way. This is why we strongly encourage authors to add funding information at submission.