References made in publications arising from agency funding can provide agencies with an overview of what literature is considered important in the fields that they fund. Many publishers deposit references to Crossref as part of their participation Crossref's [CitedBy](http://www.crossref.org/citedby/index.html) service. However, participation in CitedBy does not automatically make references available via Crossref's standard APIs. In order for publishers to distribute references along with standard bibliographic metadata, publishers need to set the `<reference_distribution_opt>` element to `any` for each DOI deposit where they want to make references openly available. By setting this element, references for the DOI will be distributed without restriction through all of Crossrefs APIs and bulk metadata dumps. Further details can be found in [Crossref's schema documentation for the `<reference_distribution_opt>` element.](http://www.crossref.org/schema/documentation/4.3.4/4.3.4.html#reference_distribution_opts.att)
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