Updating funding deposits with new Registry info

The funding Registry is currently undergoing rapid growth. New funding organizations are continually being evaluated for inclusion in the Registry which at the moment is being updated almost every month. Once added a name is given a DOI making it an official Registry entry.

Updating deposited data to reflect Registry changes

Members have been including funding information in their article deposits for over a year now and many have been able to make use of the names Registry to include funding organization identifiers. In some cases an appropriate Registry identifier did not exist or a match could not be made at the time of deposit so the metadata deposited with Crossref contained just a funding organization name.

As the Registry grows these past deposits should be updated to reflect new identifiers and better Registry metadata.

getFunders API

To help members identify Registry changes that affect their prior deposits Crossref now offers a simple getFunders service which displays the Funder information for a DOI taking into account Registry changes. For example:

DOI 10.1037/0735-7036.121.3.306 was deposited on July 23, 2013 with the following funding data. This deposit identifies 5 sources of funding for the article only one of which was identified with a Registry DOI.

The API call doi.crossref.org/getFunders?q=10.1037/0735-7036.121.3.306 shows these same 5 funders with additional Registry information (in a JSON format)

{
  "fundedItemDOI" : "10.1037/0735-7036.121.3.306",
  "funders" : [
    {
      "prefLabel" : "SEASPACE",
      "isRegistryName" : "false"
    },
    {
      "prefLabel" : "Walt Disney Company",
      "isRegistryName" : "false",
      "suggested" : {
        "isRegistryName" : "true",
        "identifier" : "10.13039/100004795",
        "prefLabel" : "The Walt Disney Company"
      }
    },
    {
      "prefLabel" : "Soroptimist International",
      "isRegistryName" : "false"
    },
    {
      "prefLabel" : "American Psychological Association",
      "isRegistryName" : "true",
      "depositedAsIdentifier" : "false",
      "suggested" : {
        "identifier" : "https://doi.org/10.13039/100006324",
        "altLabels" : [
          "APA"
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "prefLabel" : "American Association of University Women",
      "isRegistryName" : "true",
      "depositedAsIdentifier" : "true",
      "identifier" : "https://doi.org/10.13039/100005280",
      "altLabels" : [
        "AAUW"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

This tells you that:

'SEASPACE' was deposited without an identifier and nothing in the Registry has changed
'Walt Disney Company' was deposited without an identifier but there is a Registry entry for 'The Walt Disney Company' which has a registry DOI
'Soroptimist International' was deposited without an identifier and nothing in the Registry has changed
'American Psychological Association' was deposited without an identifier but it does have a Registry DOI
'American Association of University Women' was deposited with a Registry DOI.

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