Adding Content to the "Other Resources" Field

The “Publication Info” tab of the admin panel has a field for “Other Resources”, where you can provide references/links to resources related to the study. This content is then displayed at the bottom of the study’s page on the public DEP site (see Figure F1). The content listed here can include:

• Any additional research publications produced by the study (e.g., journal articles/working papers)[1]

• The study’s protocol (once the completed study has been published - for 3ie produced or funded research)

• Blogs or videos about the study - for 3ie produced or funded research)

• Media coverage of the study - for 3ie produced or funded research)

Please adhere to the following guidance when adding content to “Other resources”:

• The heading for this section is not hard-coded, so you will need to add a heading in order for it to show up on DEP. Please use the heading “Related resources”, rather than “Other resources”.[2] Use the “Heading 1” style for this.

• Add a subheading to indicate the type of resource (e.g., “Additional publications from this study”, “Blogs”, “Videos”, “Media coverage”, etc.). If there are multiple types of resources, use multiple sub-headings to break them up by type. Use the “Heading 4” style for these sub-headings (the “Heading 2” and “Heading 3” styles are not very visually distinct from Heading 1).

• If there are multiple items within a sub-section, use a bulleted list to display the items (bulleted text will look unusually small in the admin panel, but will look fine on DEP).

  • • If you are only listing one item under a heading, you do not need to use a bullet for that item.

• List any additional research publications in Chicago style (author-date). You can use a reference manager or online tool to create properly formatted references.

• URLs entered in this field will not automatically be converted to hyperlinks on DEP, so make sure you use the hyperlink tool (looks like this:🔗) to create any necessary hyperlinks.

  • • For Chicago-formatted references, the URL goes at the end, so you should hyperlink that. For other types of resources (like blogs), you can just hyperlink the titles—see the example linked in the final bullet below.

• Do not insert any blank lines in the field, including between sub-sections—appropriate spacing will be added automatically.

• Changes to a field in the admin panel are saved and pushed to DEP as soon as you click outside that field. So you can keep track of how your changes look on DEP by having the DEP record open in a separate tab while you edit the admin panel. When you make a change in the admin panel, you can refresh the DEP page to see the live changes. Be sure to check how the “Related resources” section looks on DEP after you are finished editing in the admin panel, to ensure everything is formatted correctly.

• See the “Related resources” section here for an example of how this should look.

[1] Records in DEP represent studies rather than publications. So if a study has produced a working paper/report and several journal articles reporting on different outcomes, these should all be collected in a single DEP record. When studies have multiple publications, we choose a single representative publication as the “master publication” for each study. This is the paper whose title and bibliographic metadata will be shown in the main part of the DEP record, while remaining publications are listed under “Other resources”. For 3ie-funded or -produced studies, the master publication should be the 3ie report, working paper, IE series report, etc., rather than any journal publications.

[2] Apologies if this is confusing—the field was originally named “Other resources”, but the DEP team deliberated and decided “Related” was a better term. We hope to change the name of the field in the admin panel to make this less confusing.