Item Type: Grants
Just curious what folks are using to document grants - I could not find a item type that would allow you to track the data that is specific to grants.
I look forward to your suggestions.
I look forward to your suggestions.
Investigator(s)
Year
Title of grant
Activity Location
Sponsoring Agency
Amount Requested
Amount Received
Status
Duration
Funding Type
Original Grant Number
Funding Number
Label
Abstract/Specific Aims
Notes
Collaborating Institutions
Author Address
Last Modified Date
We cite our grant information similar to a journal article - except it would include funding information (amount, organization) and it would typically include specific aims in place of an abstract.
If grants and associated information is what you're keeping track of mainly, Zotero might not be ideal - it's a bibliography software mainly, rather than a general database solution.
To get advice on putting the right info into the right type for getting grants cited correctly I'd still need to see a sample citation.
In regards to citing grants - in EndNotes we typically use the "annotated" output style and then edit it for our needs. I believe your output styles can be edited - but I have not gotten that far in my exploration of Zotero yet.
I appreciate your insights and comments.
If it isn't - you could just use a generic item type - document or manuscript maybe - and put everything that doesn't have its own field into "extra" - that would allow you to cite it easily, too - notes can't be cited as handily.
Zotero will definitely not introduce a whole range of custom fields - those are a mess to share and thus go against its core idea.
Also, the Zotero team has worked with NSF on something - I don't actually know what that entailed, but maybe some of that would be useful - maybe Dan or Sean could say something about that.
Depending on exactly what your needs are, there are a variety of open source options you might also consider:
- BibApp
- DSpace
- even the Drupal-based OpenScholar could be an option, depending
Note: list CSS rules still need work here here; can someone fix it?I have an inkling that Report (and a custom style) might work for you, but I need to see example citations to say much for sure.
E.g. what do the citations and/or references actually look like in what context? I'm not a Zotero developer, but I did create the style language it uses. I ask these questions of all type requests because you have to realize, if we (CSL and Zotero) just added any type people asked for without understanding the precise needs, we could easily end up with 200 of them, without much logic. The result would be a significant level of confusion.
And simply copying what Endnote does is seldom a good approach, given many of us aren't big fans of the application.
If you can show us an example of where a grant is cited and how, I will support adding it to CSL at least (which is actually used by a number of apps beyond Zotero now).
Simple Reference - without abstract/specific aim:
Last AB, Last2 AB, Last 3 AB. Title XXXXX XXXXX: XXXX XXXX XXXXX (01/01/05-09/30/09), Location of Study ($1,008,426), National Insitute of Health: Proposal Log Number XXXXX, Award Number XXXXX, HSRRB Log Number XXXX.
Also - could add abstract or specific aim - depending on format of the document. (annotated bibliography).
The specific aim of this project is to XXXXX.
The inforamtion we enter into EndNotes currently is posted above.
Thank You.
Example:::s of inline citation:; (Smith 2004) OR (NSF 0800321)
And in the bibliography I need as @dteyhen suggests:;
Grant-Recipient-Last-Name, First-Name. Date-of-Award. Grant Title. (Project Funding duration Dates). Location of Study or Receiving institution. (Amount of Award). Grant Bestower. Grant Bestower ID number. URL of online Grant Reference.
In my work in linguistics I use this kind of citation in four places:;
1. When writing a CV
2. When writing a grant proposal and referencing previous awards
3. When writing a report about current activities
4. When writing academic articles/chapters discussing the history of a project.
5. Occasionally I have cited a grant proposal too, which is a little different...