> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.myresearchlab.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Findability

> Attach persistent identifiers — language, funders, and your affiliation's ROR — so your study record is discoverable and its support is attributable.

The **F** in [FAIR](https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/) is *Findable*. Beyond the [preregistration DOI](/methodology/preregistration) and [reuse licence](/methodology/replication), My Research Lab lets you attach a few standard **persistent identifiers (PIDs)** to a study so search engines, indexers, and other researchers can find it and credit the people and bodies behind it.

Everything here is **optional**. A study record is complete without it — these fields just make the record richer and more machine-readable.

## Where you set it

Open your study's **Record** stage. In the **Findability** panel you'll find two fields:

| Field                     | What it is                                                                                                   | Where it comes from                                                                                    |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Language of materials** | The [BCP-47](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp47) language your study is written in (e.g. English, Dutch). | A curated dropdown.                                                                                    |
| **Funders**               | The bodies that funded the work.                                                                             | Type-ahead against the [Crossref Funder Registry](https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/). |

Your **affiliation's** identifier — its [ROR](https://ror.org) id — is set once on your profile, not per study. See [Researcher profiles](/workspace/researcher-profiles); it then rides along on every record you author.

Both Findability fields save the moment you change them — there's no separate save step.

## Funders

Start typing a funder's name and pick it from the list. Each match comes straight from the Crossref Funder Registry and carries the funder's **DOI** — the canonical identifier for that body. Your record then links to it, and the metadata we emit tags the funder with its `@id` so a machine reads the same identifier a person does.

<Note>
  No match in the registry? Keep typing and choose **Use "…"** to add the funder as plain text. It appears on your record by name; it simply won't carry a registry id.
</Note>

## Where these identifiers show up

Once set, your PIDs appear in two places, kept in step by construction:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="On the record, for people" icon="eye">
    The public study record shows the language and links each funder to its Funder Registry page. Your affiliation on the byline links to its ROR page.
  </Card>

  <Card title="In the metadata, for machines" icon="robot">
    The record embeds <a href="https://schema.org">schema.org</a> JSON-LD carrying `inLanguage`, each `funder` with its `@id`, and the author's `affiliation` with its ROR `@id` — what Google Dataset Search and other indexers read.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

### Resource type

The record also derives a **[DataCite](https://datacite.org) resource type** from its state — `Dataset` when you've published a data table, `StudyRegistration` for a preregistered study, otherwise `Text`. It's emitted in the metadata so indexers classify the record correctly. My Research Lab does **not** mint a separate DataCite DOI — your [OSF registration DOI](/integrations/osf) stays the one canonical identifier for the study.

<Tip>
  Filling these in takes under a minute and pays off at discovery time: a funder can find every study it supported, a reader in another language knows before clicking, and your institution gets credit that resolves to a single, unambiguous ROR page.
</Tip>