Output Types

Publications are documents directly funded by a grantee’s current NIDILRR award. Publications include journal articles, periodicals, web journals, proceedings from meetings and symposia, books or book chapters, monographs, abstracts, technical or research reports, and reviews. Within this output category are peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications. Peer review is a process to evaluate the accuracy of a manuscript and the validity of the research methodology and procedures described. Manuscripts are typically reviewed by a panel of reviewers from the same scientific or academic discipline as the authors. This process is conducted prior to publication, and the review panel can recommend revisions to the work or reject its submission for publication. Non-peer-reviewed publications do not receive this level of review and feedback. Documents that are currently in review, accepted for publication, in press, or self-published are not reported in the APR (source: APR-PPR, Tables 18 and 19).
Tools, measures, and intervention protocols include instruments or processes created to acquire quantitative or qualitative information, knowledge, or data on a specific disability or rehabilitation issue as well as research-based protocols for delivering interventions to specific target populations of people with disabilities. Examples include checklists, survey questionnaires or interview schedules, interventions, statistical or methodological techniques, databases, and diagnosis or assessment instruments, including physiologic measures and outcome measures (source: APR-PPR, Table 20).
Technology products and devices are developed, modified, tested, or evaluated by the grantee. This category refers to any technology product or device developed under the award that the grantee disseminated or delivered to external audiences during the current reporting period. These include the development of industry standards/guidelines; software or netware; inventions, patents, licenses, and patent disclosures; working prototypes; product(s) evaluated or field-tested; product(s) transferred to industry for potential commercialization; and product(s) in the marketplace (source: APR-PPR, Table 21).
Information products refer to items such as training manuals/curricula, fact sheets, newsletters, audiovisual materials, marketing tools, educational aids, websites, presentations, and other forms of disseminated information (source: APR-PPR, Table 22).