The provision of specialised equipment, reagents, materials, animals, samples, or computational infrastructure that materially enabled a research output, captured under CRediT 'Resources' or in acknowledgements when the contribution does not include intellectual input on the work itself.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A laboratory that provided a unique mouse strain, acknowledged with a citation to the strain's original paper

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A commercial vendor of standard reagents is not a credited contributor (they are a supplier)

Editorial commentary

The distinction from authorship turns on intellectual contribution: providing a custom-engineered probe and helping design how it is used can warrant authorship; providing an off-the-shelf reagent typically warrants acknowledgement. The provider’s affiliation and any commercial relationship should be disclosed.

References

NISO CRediT Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022)
Materials Design Analysis Reporting MDAR Framework (2021)

Also known as

Resources contribution · Materials provision

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Equipment provision (resources extension)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/equipment-provision-resources-extension" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/equipment-provision-resources-extension",
  "name": "Equipment provision (resources extension)",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/equipment-provision-resources-extension",
  "description": "The provision of specialised equipment, reagents, materials, animals, samples, or computational infrastructure that materially enabled a research output, captured under CRediT 'Resources' or in acknowledgements when the contribution does not include intellectual input on the work itself.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/credit-extensions#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/equipment-provision-resources-extension",
  "sameAs": [
    "Resources contribution",
    "Materials provision"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-05-21T01:59:10",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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