Researchfish Common Additional Questions – Information for Publication 2019
The below communication was sent to all Funders who are subscribers of Researchfish, on 30th April 2019. If you did not receive this communication please contact support@researchfish.com to be added to our contacts.
Dear Funder,
As you know, the Researchfish system enables funders to set up mandatory additional questions, that allows funders to collect information in addition to that collected via the common outcomes question set.
Over the past few years funders have begun to work together to create shared/common additional questions. These are sets of mandatory additional questions that are used by multiple funders. At the moment there are three such sections:
- Animal Use,
- Academic Meeting & Conference Attendance, and
- Public & Patient Involvement.
The Researchfish Steering Board have asked that we publish information on these common additional questions. I am therefore producing a document that covers - what the questions are, what funding organisations currently use them and how the common additional questions are governed.
I plan to include a table that states the name of the funding organisation and a tick to show which common additional question they have access to, i.e. the funder could apply the common additional question to one or more award and collect the extra information. If you have any issues or concerns about your organisation being included in this table please email me via Beverley.Sherbon@researchfish.com by Friday 24th May. Otherwise, I will aim to include all relevant organisations in this part of the document, and to publish the document on the documentation area of the Researchfish platfrom shortly after the next Researchfish Steering Board meeting in June.
This email is going to all funding organisations that subscribe to using Researchfish, regardless of whether they have access to one of these common additional questions or not. If you are unsure as to whether you have access please login to the system, go to the eval tab, click on the cog icon on the right-hand side, select Section Management, and then Sections. You will see a list of the additional sections that your organisation has access to use.