Web Research and Source Citations

Some grant questions can only be answered with information the applicant did not provide — an organisation's public reputation, whether a claimed award is real, a figure published elsewhere. Optible can research these on the open web as part of assessment.

How it works

A grant admin sets up a web-research enriched field and chooses which application answers and document values give it context. During assessment, Optible searches the web, reads the most relevant sources, and returns a single value — the same shape of result as any other enriched field.

You always see the sources

A web-research field is shown to reviewers with its citations: the title, link, and (where available) author and date of each web page behind the answer. Click a citation to open the source and check it yourself. This is the same idea as document citations, pointed at the web instead of an uploaded file.

It is configured per grant

Web research only runs where a grant admin has set up a web-research field. It does not run on every application by default, and it is always tied to a specific question or check the grant needs answered.

Reviewers have the final say

Like any enriched value, a web-research result is a starting point, not a decision. If it is wrong, correct it the same way you would any other field. The citations are there so you can verify the answer before you rely on it.