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Related works

For every related work you list on your SDR deposit, you'll need to indicate how this work and your deposit are related.

Including this relationship helps build human- and machine-readable connections between research outputs and provides additional context for end users about scholarly materials.

Providing relationship descriptions for related works helps to build a story around the work you're depositing. End users of your works will have a more complete understanding of your research activities and their impacts, the publications and software connected to your datasets, other datasets that are part of your work or that are derived from your work, and more. It will help them piece together a richer narrative of your research and how it fits in more broadly with other research and researchers in your field.

Definitions for relationship options

It's a supplement to this related work.

Use this term when the work you are depositing is supplementary material for the related work. However, if the deposited supplementary material is referenced or cited by the related work, use "It's referenced or cited by."

It's supplemented by this related work.

Use this term when the related work is supplementary material associated with the work you are depositing. For example, you may consider a software used to analyze the data as supplementary material.

It's referenced or cited by this related work.

Use this term when the deposited work is included as a citation in or is used as a source of information for the related work. For example, when the related work cites previous work or methodologies described in the deposited work.

It references or cites this related work.

Use this term when the related work is included as a citation in or is used as a source of information for the deposited work. For example, when the deposited work cites previous work or methodologies described in the related work.

It's derived from this related work.

Use this term when the deposited work is a derivative of the related work. For example, when the deposited work is aggregated data summarizing survey data in the related resource, or when the deposited work was produced by analyzing the related resource.

It's the source of this related work.

Use this term when the related work is a derivative of the deposited work. For example, the deposited work is the original source, while the related work was produced by analyzing the deposited work.

The version of record / publisher's version of my deposit is this related work.

Use this when the related work is the version of record for a journal article that you are depositing in the SDR. Your publisher may require that you include the link to this work and indicate that it is the version of record.

It's identical to this related work.

Use this term when the deposited work and the related work are identical. For example, if two copies of the same work are saved in different institutional repositories.

It has specific versions or instances, one of which is this related work.

Use this term when the related work is a specific version (instance) of the deposited work. Among other things, this can be used to relate a deposited unversioned code repository to a specific software version that is the related work.

It's a specific version or instance of this related work. 

Use this term when the deposited work is a specific version (instance) of the related work. Among other things, this can be used to relate a specific software version deposited here to a software code repository that is the related work.

It succeeds or is a continuation of this related work.

Use this term when the related work and the deposited work are part of a series, with the related work coming before the deposited work. For example, the related work is the previous dataset in a chronological series of datasets, such as annual survey data.

It precedes or is continued by this related work.

Use this term when the related work and the deposited work are part of a series, with the deposited work coming before the related work. For example, the related resource is next in a chronological series of datasets, such as annual survey data.

It's one part of this related work.

Use this term when the deposited work is a portion of the related work or published as part of the related work. For example, when the deposited work is a chapter of a book represented by the related work, or when the deposited work is a dataset that is part of a larger series represented by the related work.

It consists of parts, one of which is this related work.

Use this term when the related work is a portion of the deposited work or published as part of the deposited work. For example, when the related work is a chapter of a book represented by the deposited work, or when the related work is a portion of a larger dataset represented by the deposited work.