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What is CRediT?
CRediT is a standardised list of 14 contributor roles that scholarly authors use to credit who did what on a research paper. It was standardised as ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022. Over 50 publishers and thousands of journals now require it.
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What is FAIR data?
FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) is a set of four principles for making research data machine-actionable. Published by Wilkinson et al. in 2016 (Nature Scientific Data), now near-universally required in funder DMPs.
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