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Canadian Research Data Centre Network

CRDCN research-policy snapshot submission form

GENERAL INFORMATION 

  • Snapshots are produced for recent published journal articles and policy papers submitted to government. 
  • Please note that CRDCN will accept a maximum of one snapshot by the same author(s) for each volume (January-June and July-December).  
  • Your draft will be reviewed by a member of the CRDCN central staff team that has an academic research background. CRDCN reserves the right to edit your submission for clarity and promotional purposes. 

INSTRUCTIONS 

  • Please write the snapshot in third person.
  • Please write using language that is accessible to audiences that are not data experts or experts in your field of research.
  • Please draft your description in a manner that makes clear to colleagues working in government the relevance of your work for evidence-based decision making for policy and programs. Tips to help you with this are provided for several components of the snapshot.
  • We encourage you to include up to one page for data visualization(s) accessible to audiences with varying levels of data literacy. An effective data visualization is clear and decluttered and aids interpretation of the text by making key finding(s) stand out.
Please provide full citation (including online link or DOI).
In one sentence, describe one finding from the publication or report that you think is the most important to inform decision-making by those working in government. The aim here is to have readers, in a glance, recognize that your research may inform their work, so that they read further, and use/cite your research.
Based on the key finding and context you have written above, provide an appropriate title for the snapshot. Note that this title will differ from the article title, and is aimed at broad government, NGO, media and public audiences.
Describe how your finding advances understanding of current knowledge. For example, what knowledge gap does it fill or what current understandings does it challenge? Does it provide comparative analysis between time periods, geographic regions, populations? Can it help to inform decisions about targets or forecasts? You may also want to include information about the data and/or methodology that you used, but if so, be sure to use a description that would be accessible to audiences that are not data experts. (100 words)
Describe the policy implications of the research. This should be accessible to audiences that are not experts in your field of research, but rather, are working in government policy and/or program development and evaluation. (100 words)
Provide the full names of the datasets used.
Describe the sample that was studied (e.g. male immigrants aged 20-35 living in rural areas).
Select from the list above up to 5 policy areas that the research can inform. Please use these StatCan categories, as they are consistent with those used in the CRDCN researcher survey
Please select only one of the following as the category for which your research has the most significant policy implications:
If you have a table, chart, diagram or other data visualization that you would like to include as supplementary material (maximum one page), please select yes and attach it below.
AUTHOR INFORMATION 
Only those who have directly contributed to writing the text in the submitted snapshot should be included as a snapshot author. Note: The snapshot author does not need to be an author of the original article or report.
We will use this email address to communicate with you regarding revisions to your snapshot.
ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a free, unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. If you do not yet have an ORCID, you can sign up here. Please provide the ORCID(s) for author(s) below.
PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION 

We will be promoting the snapshots online and can tag you and your institution on our posts. 

Persistent Identifier for the snapshots

Each snapshot will be given a persistent identifier to encourage/support government colleagues to cite the research. The snapshot citation will begin with the snapshot author and the format will be as follows:

Last, F. (Year). [Title]. CRDCN Research-Policy Snapshots, Volume#(Issue#). [Persistent Identifier]