Equipment Provision (CRediT Resources)

Equipment provision (resources extension)

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.

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· Last updated 22 Aug 2026

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Equipment provision covers the supply of specialised equipment, reagents, materials, animals, samples, or computational infrastructure that materially enabled a research output — captured under CRediT’s Resources role when the provision includes some intellectual input on how it was used, or in acknowledgements when it is purely a supply relationship with no further involvement in the work.

How it differs from related terms: The line to technical staff contribution is whether the credit is for supplying something (Resources) or for the hands-on technical labour of using it (Investigation or Data curation) — a lab that provides a unique mouse strain and a technician who runs the resulting experiments on that strain are credited differently, even on the same paper. A custom-engineered instrument built specifically for the study, with the provider also advising on its use, can warrant authorship; an off-the-shelf reagent purchased from a commercial vendor does not — the vendor is a supplier, not a contributor.

Where equipment or materials come with a commercial relationship, such as the provider’s own company or a paid consultancy, that relationship should be disclosed alongside the credit, consistent with standard conflict-of-interest reporting.

References

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

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