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Resources to use, share, cite, and explain CASRAI
CRediT resources from CASRAI include bulk dictionary downloads in six formats (JSON-LD, CSV, OWL, Turtle, BibTeX, XLSX), a 51-paper peer-reviewed bibliography, posters and slide decks for institutional rollout, conference recordings, case studies, an authoritative-source link library, brand assets, and a canonical citation guide — all CC-BY 4.0.
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Bulk
Dictionary downloads
Bulk exports of every dictionary release: JSON-LD, CSV, OWL, RDF Turtle, BibTeX, XLSX.
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Translations
Per-language status and downloads for CRediT and the dictionary.
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PDF one-pagers for institutional rollout, conferences, and library guidance.
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Presentations
Slide decks for CASRAI talks at conferences and workshops.
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Videos
Webinars, working-group recordings, brief explainers.
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Case studies
Real-world implementation stories from institutions, publishers, and CRIS vendors.
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Bibliography
Peer-reviewed papers citing CRediT, the dictionary, and adjacent work — 51 papers and growing.
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Authoritative source library
Curated link library to standards bodies, ICMJE, registries, university author guidance, and more.
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Logos & brand kit
CASRAI logo, wordmarks, brand colours. Use per /legal/trademark.
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Citation guide
How to cite the dictionary, individual terms, and per-release datasets.
Learn moreFeatured bibliography
Six papers worth reading first
Six of the most-cited entries in the 51-paper bibliography. They cover the origin of CRediT, the foundational policy arguments, the first empirical analyses, and the GenAI-era reframing. Each link opens the full bibliography page with the canonical citation.
Peer-reviewed paper
Brand et al. (2015) — Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit
The foundational CRediT paper. Learned Publishing 28 (2): 151–155. Origin of the 14-role taxonomy that became ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022.
Peer-reviewed paper
Allen et al. (2014) — Publishing: credit where credit is due
Nature 508 (7496): 312–313. The widely-cited "credit where credit is due" essay that catalysed publisher adoption.
Peer-reviewed paper
Holcombe (2019) — Contributorship, not authorship: Use CRediT to indicate who did what
Publications 7 (3): 48. Practical implementation argument; widely cited in publisher policy.
Peer-reviewed paper
Hosseini & Lewis (2023) — The role of generative AI in scholarly publishing
Accountability in Research. Argues AI tools cannot satisfy authorship criteria; CRediT as the disclosure substrate.
Peer-reviewed paper
Larivière et al. (2021) — Investigating the division of scientific labour using CRediT
Quantitative Science Studies. First-large-scale empirical analysis of CRediT distributions across disciplines.
Peer-reviewed paper
McNutt et al. (2018) — Transparency in authors' contributions and responsibilities
PNAS 115 (11): 2557–2560. The NAS / journal-editor consensus statement endorsing CRediT.
Full set of 51 papers, with abstracts and links, lives at /resources/bibliography.
Featured downloads
The six bulk-export formats at a glance
Same release content, six serialisations. Pick the one that fits your downstream stack. All six are regenerated on every dictionary release; per-release archives are kept indefinitely.
JSON-LD
JSON-LD bulk download
Schema.org DefinedTerm + DefinedTermSet pattern. Drop-in for headless stacks and repositories.
CSV
CSV per-domain
Per-domain term tables; the simplest path for ad-hoc analysis or a spreadsheet import.
OWL
OWL ontology
Full ontology in OWL 2 — for triplestores, SPARQL endpoints, and linked-data pipelines.
Turtle
RDF Turtle
Human-readable RDF serialisation; the default format for ingest into most graph databases.
BibTeX
BibTeX entries
One BibTeX record per term, suitable for citing dictionary entries from a LaTeX manuscript.
XLSX
Excel workbook
One sheet per domain + a master index sheet. Good for institutional-rollout review by non-technical staff.
Vocabulary in the materials
Key dictionary terms across the resources hub
Ten terms that recur across the posters, slide decks, bibliography abstracts, and training packs. Pinning these definitions early makes the rest of the library easier to navigate.
Dictionary term
Open vs closed research
The continuum from fully open to fully restricted research outputs; underpins open-science and reproducibility resources.
Dictionary term
Version of record
The definitive published article — distinct from preprints, accepted manuscripts, and post-prints.
Dictionary term
Preprint
A pre-peer-review manuscript deposited in a preprint server; cited extensively in CASRAI bibliography entries.
Dictionary term
Registered report
Two-stage peer-review model that accepts a study on the basis of its design before results.
Dictionary term
Reproducibility
The ability to repeat an analytic procedure on the original data and obtain the same numerical result; see /standards/reproducibility.
Dictionary term
FAIR principles
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable — the data-stewardship principles widely cited in CASRAI resources.
Dictionary term
ORCID iD
The 16-digit persistent identifier for an individual researcher; required by most major funders and publishers.
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DOI
Digital Object Identifier — the persistent identifier for citable scholarly outputs.
Dictionary term
Narrative CV
Free-text CV format organised around contribution modules; UKRI R4RI is the canonical instance.
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DORA
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment — the canonical assessment-reform reference in CASRAI training materials.
Frequently asked
Resources hub FAQ
Is everything on this hub free to reuse?+
Yes. The CASRAI Dictionary, CRediT, posters, slide decks, training packs, and bibliography metadata are all released under CC-BY 4.0. Re-use, adapt, translate, bundle into your institutional materials — the only requirement is attribution. See /legal/license for the full terms.
How do I cite the dictionary or a specific term?+
The citation guide at /resources/citation-guide gives canonical citation forms for the dictionary as a whole, an individual term, and a per-release dataset. A citation widget on every term page generates BibTeX, RIS, and Chicago-style references on the fly.
Which dictionary download format should I use?+
JSON-LD if you are integrating with a headless or Schema.org-aware stack; CSV if you are doing quick ad-hoc analysis; OWL/Turtle if you are ingesting into a triplestore or SPARQL endpoint; BibTeX for citing terms in a LaTeX manuscript; XLSX if you need institutional-rollout review by non-technical staff. All six formats are at /dictionary/download.
Can I translate CASRAI resources into another language?+
Yes — CC-BY 4.0 permits translation, and CASRAI actively maintains a translations index at /resources/translations. The CRediT taxonomy has been translated into more than a dozen languages; the dictionary translation effort is currently community-led. Reach out via /get-involved to coordinate a translation.
Where do I find case studies for my context?+
The case-studies index at /resources/case-studies groups stories by institution type, region, and rollout scope. Publisher implementations are also covered on the per-publisher pages under /credit/adoption — twenty publishers tracked, each with submission system, sample journals, and public statements.
How often is the bibliography updated?+
The bibliography (currently 51 peer-reviewed papers) is updated continuously as new work on CRediT, contributorship, AI authorship, narrative-CV adoption, research-assessment reform, and the adjacent research-information landscape appears. New submissions via /get-involved are welcome; CASRAI staff vet each candidate paper for peer-review status before adding it to the canonical bibliography.
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Related hubs
Dictionary
714 terms across 20 domains. The substantive vocabulary that everything on this resources hub references.
Open hub →Standards
Citable versions of CRediT and the CASRAI Dictionary. The release catalogue your bibliography entries cite.
Open hub →Implement (devs)
GraphQL, REST, MCP, JATS, JSON-LD. Programmatic access to everything the bulk downloads contain.
Open hub →Federation
Stewardship relationships with NISO, euroCRIS, CODATA, RDA, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite, ARDC.
Open hub →For publishers
How publishers re-use the posters, presentations, and case studies to drive editorial-policy change.
Open hub →For institutions
Reusable training kits, policy templates, and library guidance from this hub feed directly into institutional rollouts.
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