Prism has only four required fields during upload:
We recommend some additional fields:
Download the full list of Metadata Fields and Definitions in Prism below.
| Required? | Metadata Field | Definition | Example |
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| DOI | Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are persistant over time and are widely used to identify academic, professional and government works. DOIs are provided by a DOI registraion agency (such as CrossRef)When appended to "http://dx.doi.org"/ in the address bar of an Internet browser, the DOI will lead directly to the work. |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101018 OR 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101018 |
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| Yes | Resource type | Pre-defined categories to describe the type of content being uploaded, such as "journal article" or "conference poster". This field is required and text must come from Resource type list. |
Journal Article See: Resource Type |
| Yes | Title | Primary title of the content being uploaded. This field is required and allows for free text. | Comparison of IgG and neutralizing antibody responses after one or two doses |
| Title: Additional Title | Non primary title of the content being uploaded. If Additional Title is used, Type and Language are required. This field allows for free text. | COVID-19 transmission after two doses of mRNA vaccine | |
| Additional Title: Language | Language for an additional title. This field is required if using Additional Title. Text must come from ISO 639-3 Codes. |
English See: ISO 639-3 Codes |
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| Additional Title: Type | Type of additional title. This field is required if using Additional Title. Text must come from Additional Title: Type list. |
Alternative Title |
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| Yes | Publication Date | Date when the content being uploaded was or will be made publicly available. Format: YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM, or YYYY. For intervals use DATE/DATE, e.g. 1939/1945. This field is required and allows for free text. | 2022-10-05 |
| Creators: Person or Organization | Type of Creator. Must choose "Personal" or "Organizational". A radio button must be selected. | Person | |
| Yes | Creators: Name | Full name of the organization responsible for the content being uploaded. This field is required for organizations and allows for free text. | World Health Organization |
| Yes | Creators: Family name | The surname or last name of the person responsible for the content being uploaded. Usually this is the author of the content. Add any suffixes (such as Jr. or II) to this field as needed. This field is required and allows for free text. | Doe, IV |
| Creators: Given name(s) | The personal or first name of the person responsible for the content being submitted. Usually this is the author of the content. Add any middle names or initials to this field as needed. This field allows for free text. | Jane H. | |
| Creators: Name identifiers | The ORCID is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCID's website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output. Text must come from ORCID. |
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4444-5555 OR 0000-0002-4444-5555 See: ORCID |
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| Creators: Affiliations | Organizational or institutional affiliation of the creator. This field allows for free text. Text may come from the ROR Registry. |
Northwestern University See: ROR Registry |
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| ; | Creators: Role | A list of diverse roles performed in the work leading to a published research output, to provide transparency in contributions to scholarly published work, and to enable improved systems of attribution, credit, and accountability. Text must come from Contributor Role list. |
Researcher role See: Contributor Role |
| Description | Information about the content being uploaded. This field allows for free text. | ||
| Additional Description | An additional description. If Additional Description is used, Type and Language are required. This field allows for free text. | ||
| Additional Description: Type | Type of additional description. Text must come from Additional Description: Type list. |
Abstract |
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| Additional Description: Language | Language of additional description. Text must come from ISO 639-3 Codes. |
English See: ISO 639-3 Codes |
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| ; | Licenses: Title | Title of any licenses applied to the associated files. The License field may be repeated to record complex rights characteristics. This field allows for free text or text can from License Type list. |
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) See: License Type |
| Licenses: Description | Description for any licenses applied to the associated files for the record. | This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms. | |
| Licenses: Link | Link to a description of any licenses applied to the associated files for the record | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Required | Metadata Field | Definition | Example |
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| Contributors: Person or Organization | Type of Contributor. Must choose "Personal" or "Organizational". A radio button must be selected. | Person | |
| Contributors: Name | The full name of the organization secondarily responsible for the content being submitted. Usually this organization is related to the item, but not directly related to its creation. If Contributor is used, this field is required for organization and allows for free text. | World Health Organization | |
| Contributors: Family name | The surname or last name of the person secondarily responsible for the content being submitted. Usually this person is related to the item, but not directly related to its creation. Add any suffixes (such as Jr. or II) to this field as needed. If Contributor is used, this field is required and allows for free text. | Hanson, III | |
| Contributors: Given names(s) | The personal or first name of the person secondarily responsible for the content being submitted. Usually this person is related to the item, but not directly related to its creation. Add any middle names or initials to this field as needed. This field allows for free text. | John | |
| Contributors: Affiliations | Organizational or institutional affiliation of the contributor. This field allows for free text. Text may come from the ROR Registry. |
Northwestern University See: ROR Registry |
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| Contributors: Name identifiers | The ORCID is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCID's website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output. Text must come from ORCID. |
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4444-5555 OR 0000-0002-4444-5555 See: ORCID |
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| Contributors: Role | A list of diverse roles performed in the work leading to a published research output, to provide transparency in contributions to scholarly published work, and to enable improved systems of attribution, credit, and accountability. Text must come from Contributor Role list. |
Researcher role See: Contributor Role |
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| Subjects: Suggest from | The name of the subject scheme or classification code or authority being used. Text must be: All, LCSH, MeSH, LCNAF |
LCSH is Library of Congress Subject Headings MeSH is Medical Subject Headings |
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| Subject (term) | Text from the subject scheme or classification code or authority being used. |
LCSH is Library of Congress Subject Headings MeSH is Medical Subject Headings |
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| Languages | The primary language of the associated files. Text must come from ISO 639-3 Codes. |
English See: ISO 639-3 Codes |
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| Dates: Date | Different dates relevant to the work. Format: YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM, or YYYY. For intervals use DATE/DATE, e.g. 1939/1945. | 1987 | |
| Dates: Type | Type of date. If Dates is used, Type is also required. Text must come from Date: Type list. |
Created See: Date: Type |
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| Dates: Description | Used to provide more information about the publication, release, or collection date details, for example. May also be used to clarify dates in ancient history. This field allows for free text. Examples: 55 BC, 55BCE. | Date originally created before being published. | |
| Version | The version number of the resource. This field allows for free text. If no text is provided, Prism will assign version "v1" and so on. | v1 | |
| Publisher | The name of the entity that holds, archives, publishes, prints, distributes, releases, issues, or produces the resource. This property will be used to formulate the citation, so consider the prominence of the role. This field is pre-filled with Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University as the entity that distributes content via Prism and issues DOIs for records. This field allows for free text. | Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University |
| Required | Metadata Field | Definition | Example |
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| Add Custom Award: Funder | Name of the funding provider. This field is required for Add Custom Award. Text must come from Custom Funder (Share Point) list. |
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) |
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| Add Custom Award: Number | The code assigned by the funder to a sponsored award (grant). This field allows for free text. | UL1TR001422 | |
| Add Custom Award: Title | The human readable title or name of the award (grant). This field allows for full text. | Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS) | |
| Add Custom Award: URL | The URI leading to a page provided by the funder for more information about the award (grant). This field allows for free text. | https://reporter.nih.gov/search/W5biHBHg8UmUvlfCgqE01Q/project-details/10434881 |
| Required | Metadata Field | Definition | Example |
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| Alternative Identifiers: Identifier | An identifier other than the primary Identifier applied to the resource being registered. The Alternate Identifier should be an additional identifier for the same instance of the resource (i.e., same location, same file). |
https://doi.org/10.1109/5.771073 OR 10.1109/5.771073 |
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| Alternative identifiers: Scheme | Type of Alternative Identifier. If Alternative Identifier is used, Scheme is required. Text must come from Scheme list. |
DOI See: Scheme |
| Required | Metadata Field | Definition | Example |
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| Related Works: Relation | Description of the relationship of the resource being registered (A) and the related resource (B). Text must come from Related Works: Relation |
IsCitedBy |
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| Related Works: Identifier | Identifier of Related Work. If using Relation, Identifier and Scheme are required. |
https://doi.org/10.1109/5.771073 OR 10.1109/5.771073 |
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| Related Works: Scheme | The name of the scheme. If using Relation, Identifier and Scheme are required. Text must come from Scheme list. |
DOI See: Scheme |
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| Related Works: Resource type | Pre-defined categories to describe the type of content being uploaded, such as "journal article" or "conference poster". This field is required and text must come from Resource type list. |
Journal Article See: Resource type |
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| Additional Description: Type | Definition |
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| Abstract | A brief description of the resource and the context in which the resource was created. |
| Acknowledgements | An author's or publisher's statement of indebtedness to others. |
| Methods | The methodology employed for the study or research. |
| Other | Other description information that does not fit into an existing category. |
| Series information | Information about a repeating series, such as volume, issue, number. |
| Table of contents | A listing of the Table of Contents. |
| Technical info | Detailed information that may be associated with design, implementation, operation, use, and/or maintenance of a process or system |
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| Additional Title: Type | Definition |
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| Alternative title | the second part of a title proper that consists of two parts (each of which has the form of an independent title), joined by a word such as "or" or its equivalent in another language |
| Subtitle title | title that is subordinate to the title proper and that completes and qualifies it, or makes it more explicit |
| Translated title | translation of the proper title |
| Other title | another title for the same work |
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| Contributor Role | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conceptulization role | Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims. |
| Data collector role | Person/institution responsible for finding, gathering/collecting data under the guidelines of the author(s) or Principal Investigator (PI) |
| Data curator role | Person tasked with reviewing, enhancing, cleaning, or standardizing metadata and the associated data submited for storage, use and maintenance wihtin a data centre or repository |
| Data manager role | Person (or organisation with a staff of data managers, such as a data centre) responsible for maintaining the finished resource. |
| Editor role | A person who oversees the details related to the publication format of the resource. |
| Education and training role | A role in which a person participates in the transfer of knowledge and skills, through teaching, development of educational materials or curriculum, through program development or other means. |
| Formal analysis role | Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data. |
| Hosting institution role | Typically, the organisation allowing the resource to be available on the internet through the provision of its hardware/software/operating support. |
| Librarian role | A person who deals with provision and maintenance of information in many formats, including: books; electronic resources; magazines; newspapers; audio and video recordings; maps; manuscripts; photographs and other graphic material; bibliographic databases; and web-based and digital resources. A librarian may also provide other information services, including: information literacy instruction; computer provision and training; coordination with community groups to host public programs; assistive technology for people with disabilities; and assistance locating community resources. Librarians often work in a library, but can also work in other physical settings or virtual environments. |
| Marketing and communications role | Coordination of research dissemination through popular media and the press, as well as community outreach and liaising of project directly to the community. |
| Methodology role | Development or design of methodology; creation of models. |
| Other role | Any person or institution making a significant contribution to the development and/or maintenance of the resource, but whose contribution does not “fit” other controlled vocabulary for contributorType. |
| Producer role | Typically a person or organisation responsible for the artistry and form of a media product. |
| Project manager role | Person officially designated as manager of a project. Project may consist of one or many project teams and sub‐teams. |
| Research group role | Typically refers to a group of individuals with a lab, department, or division; the group has a particular, defined focus of activity. |
| Researcher role | A person involved in analyzing data or the results of an experiment or formal study. May indicate an intern or assistant to one of the authors who helped with research but who was not so “key” as to be listed as an author. |
| Resources role | Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools. |
| Rights holder role | Person or institution owning or managing property rights, including intellectual property rights over the resource. |
| Software role | Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components. |
| Supervisor role | Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team. |
| Visualization role | Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation. |
| Writing role | Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation). |
| Project member role | Person on the membership list of a designated project/project team. |
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| Date: Type | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accepted | The date that the publisher accepted the resource into their system. |
| Available | The date the resource is made publicly available. May be a range. |
| Collected | The specific, documented date at which the resource receives a copyrighted status, if applicable |
| Copyrighted | The date or date range in which the resource content was collected |
| Created | "The date the resource itself was put together; this could refer to a timeframe in ancient history, a date range, or a single date for a final component, e.g., the finalised file with all the data. |
| Issued | The date that the resource is published or distributed, e.g., to a data centre |
| Other | |
| Submitted | The date the creator submits the resource to the publisher. This could be different from Accepted if the publisher then applies a selection process |
| Updated | The date of the last update to the resource, when the resource is being added to. May be a range. |
| Valid | "The date or date range during which the dataset or resource is accurate. |
| Withdrawn | The date the resource is removed |
| Publication date | The year when the item was or will be made publicly available. If the DOI is being used to identify a digitised version of an original item, the recommended approach is to supply the PublicationYear for the digital version and not the original object. |
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| License Name | Definition | Link |
|---|---|---|
| All Rights Reserved | The copyright holder is not providing a license for re-use. The copyright holder reserves, or holds for its own use, all the rights provided by copyright law. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved |
| Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 4.0 International | This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you. | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ |
| Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International | This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International | This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International | This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International | This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
| Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 | This mark indicates that this work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The mark should only be used for works already free of known copyright and database restrictions and in the public domain throughout the world. | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ |
| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | This license lets others know the work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Permissions of this strong copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. | https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-only.html |
| MIT License | A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code. | https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html |
See full list of licenses here: SPDX Licenses in Prism.
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| Related Work Identifier | Definition |
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| IsCitedBy | indicates that B includes A in a citation |
| Cites | indicates that A includes B in a citation |
| IsSupplementTo | indicates that A is a supplement to B |
| IsSupplementedBy | indicates that B is a supplement to A |
| IsContinuedBy | indicates A is continued by the work B |
| Continues | indicates A is a continuation of the work B |
| IsDescribedBy | indicates A describes B |
| Describes | indicates A is described by B |
| HasMetadata | indicates resource A has additional metadata B |
| IsMetadataFor | indicates additional metadata A for a resource B |
| HasVersion | indicates A has a version (B) |
| IsVersionOf | indicates A is a version of B |
| IsNewVersionOf | indicates A is a new edition of B, where the new edition has been modified or updated |
| IsPreviousVersionOf | indicates A is a previous edition of B |
| IsPartOf | indicates A is a portion of B; may be used for elements of a series |
| HasPart | indicates A includes the part B |
| IsPublishedIn | indicates A is published inside B, but is independent of other things published inside of B |
| IsReferencedBy | indicates A is used as a source of information by B |
| References | indicates B is used as a source of information for A |
| IsDocumentedBy | indicates B is documentation about/ explaining A; e.g. points to software documentation |
| Documents | indicates A is documentation about B; e.g. points to software documentation |
| IsCompiledBy | indicates B is used to compile or create A |
| Compiles | "indicates B is the result of a compile or creation event using A |
| IsVariantFormOf | indicates A is a variant or different form of B |
| IsOriginalFormOf | indicates A is the original form of B |
| IsIdenticalTo | indicates that A is identical to B, for use when there is a need to register two separate instances of the same resource |
| IsReviewedBy | indicates that A is reviewed by B |
| Reviews | indicates that A is a review of B |
| IsDerivedFrom | indicates B is a source upon which A is based |
| IsSourceOf | indicates A is a source upon which B is based |
| IsRequiredBy | indicates A is a source upon which B is based |
| Requires | Indicates A is required by B |
| IsObsoletedBy | Indicates A replaces B |
| Obsoletes | Indicates A is replaced by B |
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| Resource type | Resource subtype | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Articles | Case Report | Clinical presentations that may be followed by evaluative studies that eventually lead to a diagnosis. |
| Articles | Clinical Trial | Work that reports on the results of a clinical study in which participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions so that researchers can evaluate the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. |
| Articles | Journal Article | Article on a particular topic and published in a journal issue. |
| Articles | Other Article | A type of article that is not described by other more specific terms |
| Articles | Review | An article or work consisting of a more or less comprehensive review of the literature on a specific subject, with usually an extensive critical analysis and synthesis of the literature. |
| Books | Biography | Work consisting of an account of the events, works, and achievements, personal and professional, during a person's life. |
| Books | Book | A medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover. |
| Books | Book Part | A defined chapter or section of a book, usually with a separate title or number. |
| Books | Handbook | Work consisting of concise reference works in which facts and information pertaining to a certain subject or field are arranged for ready reference and consultation. |
| Conference Objects | Conference Poster | A poster presentation given at conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines (usually pictorial and posted in a public space). |
| Conference Objects | Conference Presentation | Oral and visual presentations given at meetings, congresses, conferences, symposia and other professional gatherings. |
| Conference Objects | Conference Proceeding | An official record of a conference meeting; a collection of documents corresponding to the presentations given at the conference. |
| Conference Objects | Meeting Abstract | An individual abstract of a presentation at a meeting, congress, conference, symposium, colloquium, seminar, workshop, round table, or other professional gathering |
| Dataset | Work consisting of organized collections of data, which have been stored permanently in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing. | |
| Images | Photograph | Still image produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. |
| Images | Pictorial Work | Work consisting exclusively or mainly of pictures but not technical drawings. |
| Learning Objects | Lecture | Work consisting of speeches read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject. |
| Learning Objects | Presentation | Spoken or visual representations of information, such as speeches, demonstrations, posters, and slide shows. |
| Multimedia | Poster | Work consisting of single or multi-sheet notices made to attract attention to events, activities, causes, goods, or services. They are for posting, usually in a public place and are chiefly pictorial. They are intended to make an immediate impression from a distance. Posters do not include poster presentations at conferences and meetings. |
| Multimedia | Software | Computer software, or generally just software, is any set of machine-readable instructions (most often in the form of a computer program) that conform to a given syntax (sometimes referred to as a language) that is interpretable by a given processor and that directs a computer's processor to perform specific operations. |
| Multimedia | Sound (Recording) | A resource primarily intended to be heard, usually of a speech, song, performance, etc. |
| Multimedia | Video | A recording of visual images, usually in motion and with sound accompaniment. |
| Other | Other | Different than types previously specified or mentioned. |
| Study Documentation | Data Management Plan | A formal statement describing how research data will be managed and documented throughout a research project and the terms regarding the subsequent deposit of the data with a data repository for long-term management and preservation |
| Study Documentation | Research Proposal | A research proposal is a document proposing a research project, generally in the sciences or academia, and generally constitutes a request for sponsorship of that research. |
| Study Documentation | Study Design | A plan specification comprised of protocols (which may specify how and what kinds of data will be gathered) that are executed as part of an investigation and is realized during a study design execution. |
| Text Resources | Correspondence | Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables. |
| Text Resources | Form | Document used for acquiring particular information or for presenting particular information in a prescribed sequence and format, usually with blank spaces for insertion of the requested information. |
| Text Resources | Guideline | Work consisting of a set of statements, directions, or principles presenting current or future rules or policy. |
| Text Resources | Preprint | Scientific manuscript made available prior to peer review. [like a workingPaper this is a preliminary scientific or technical paper, but it is not published in a institutional series. The paper is intended to be published in a scientific journal or as a chapter in a book from:https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/standards/info-eu-repo/#infoeurepo-Publicationtypes |
| Text Resources | Program | Work consisting of lists of the events, pieces, performers, speakers, etc., of an entertainment, ceremony, or the like. |
| Text Resources | Report | Work consisting of statements concerning the administrative and operational functions of a group, often an institution or organization. |
| Theses and Dissertations | Doctoral Thesis | A thesis reporting the research undertaken during a period of graduate study leading to a doctoral degree |
| Theses and Dissertations | Masters Thesis | A thesis reporting a research project undertaken as part of a graduate course of education leading to a master's degree. |
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| Scheme | Definition | Example |
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| ARK | Archival Resource Key (ARK) is a multi-purpose URL suited to being a persistent identifier for information objects of any type. | ark:/c8131/g3rp42 |
| arXiv | arXiv identifier: arXiv.org is a repository of preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance | arXiv:2109.13768 |
| Bibcode | Astrophysics Data System bibliographic codes: a standardized 19-character identifier | 1974AJ.....79..819H |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier: a character string used to uniquely identify an object. A DOI name is divided into two parts, a prefix and a suffix, separated by a slash. | https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.51179 |
| EAN13 | The International Article Number (also known as European Article Number or EAN) is a standard describing a barcode symbology and numbering system used in global trade to identify a specific retail product type. | 1234567890128 |
| EISSN | An electronic International Standard Serial Number (e-ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication, such as a magazine. | 1470-7330 |
| Handle | The Handle System is the Corporation for National Research Initiatives's proprietary registry assigning persistent identifiers, or handles, to information resources. | 20.1000/100 |
| IGSN | IGSN stands for International Generic Sample Number. The IGSN is an alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies samples taken from our natural environment | HRV003M16 |
| ISBN | The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique | 978-3-16-148410-0 |
| ISSN | An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication, such as a magazine. | 1740-5025 |
| ISTC | The International Standard Text Code (ISTC) is a unique identifier for text-based works. | A02-2009-000004BE-A |
| LISSN | When a publication is published on several media, a linking ISSN is assigned so that the media can be easily grouped and the contents are easier to manage. | 1748-7188 |
| LSID | Life Science Identifier are a way to name and locate pieces of information on the web. | urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CDC8D258-8F57-41DC-B560-247E17D3DC8C |
| PMID | abstracts appearing in PubMed are assigned a PMID automatically | 23193287 |
| PURL | PURLs are Web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure. | https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo53258 |
| UPC | A UPC, short for universal product code, is a type of code printed on retail product packaging to aid in identifying a particular item | 42100005264 |
| URL | A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address | https://www.cnn.com |
| URN | A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that uses the urn scheme. | urn:isan:0000-0000-2CEA-0000-1-0000-0000-Y |
| W3ID | URLS provided by the W3C Permanent Identifier Community Group, which provides secure, permanent URL re-direction service for Web applications. | https://w3id.org/tree |
Who is responsible for entering metadata?
Generally, it is the responsibility of the depositor to enter metadata. However, we can provide support for entering metadata and uploading items. See our guide on Metadata in Prism or Edit Metadata of Record. Please contact prism@northwestern.edu with any questions.
How do I know which keywords to use?
Keywords are used to help searchers find your content in Prism. Consider what terms you might use to search for your content. You must have at least one keyword associated with your item in Prism. You can edit the keyword field after upload, so if you think of more keywords you can add them at a later date. See our guide on Metadata in Prism or Edit Metadata of Record.
How do I acknowledge people who helped me in writing or preparing my scholarly work?
You can use the "Additional Description" field with the type "Acknowledgements" to enter any acknowledgments. Or you can use the "Contributor" metadata fields to highlight any person(s) or organization(s) who contributed to the work. See our guide on Metadata in Prism or Edit Metadata of Record.
My article is available in PubMed Central (PMC) or on a publisher's website. How do I provide a link to those websites from the article's Prism record?
In order to provide a link to PMC or the publisher’s website (or other location), use the metadata fields under the "Related works" section. These fields are available when you are uploading or editing a record. Keep in mind that access to the article at the publisher's website may be restricted to subscribers or subscribing libraries. See our guide on Metadata in Prism or Edit Metadata of Record.