PFN maintains a family of documents describing PFN’s policies relating to content developed by PFN or by PFN Participants (both Members and Collaborators) to assure that such content meets PFN standards of quality and effectiveness, including consistency, coherence, readability, and understandability. PFN content is typically available through the PFN website and other PFN venues and distribution channels.
Current Documents
About PFN Content and Statement Types. General overview of PFN content policies, particularly the review and verification requirements that apply to PFN Content Types (Exploratory Content, Beta Content, and Shared Content) and PFN Statement Types (Factual Claims, Analysis and Interpretation, and Viewpoint and Values). Click here.
About Beta Content. Sets forth the specific requirements that content must meet to qualify as Beta Content. Click here.
About Using Generative AI. Special disclosure and other rules relating to uses of generative AI by PFN or PFN Participants in the primary categories of PFN content: Exploratory Content, Beta Content, and Shared Content. Click here.
About Domain Overviews. Describes the general structure and rules for Domain Overview documents maintained by PFN Network Groups. Each Network Group has one Domain (i.e., broad topic area) and thus one Domain Overview document. The Overview document explains the general meaning and scope of the Network Group’s Domain, the key policy topics encompassed by the Domain, the reasons why the Domain is important, and other important considerations that PFN Participants should know about the Domain. Click here.
About Solution Reports. to be developed Click here [URL].
Writing Policies. Style and usage manual, etc. – to be developed. Click here [URL].
Acknowledgements
[Appears after the Endnotes section. Included by default on Beta Content and Shared Content. It may also appear on Exploratory Content posted to a Network-Group-restricted page, where relevant.
Contributors. [Each peer reviewer is mentioned as a Contributor, along with the scope of their role and review. Where there are no peer reviewers to credit, for instance on Exploratory Content, these lines are omitted.] [EXAMPLE:] [Name] reviewed this page’s factual claims and analysis as a peer reviewer. [Name] reviewed this page, including its viewpoints and values, as a peer reviewer.
[The following two sentences are default template language, included on every page and removable during customization.] [EXAMPLE:] Responsibility for the content rests with the PFN Participants listed as authors or co-authors. This content does not represent an institutional position of Policy Futures Network. It also does not necessarily reflect the views of every Participant who contributed to it, including those who listed as authors or co-authors.
Disclosures. [Included when there is at least one item to disclose.] [EXAMPLE:] This content was prepared with support from [funding source]. Generative AI was used in preparing this page under Tier [1/2/3] of PFN’s Policy on Using Generative AI, for [drafting/editing/research assistance]. [Name], a [Participant/Member] who contributed to this content, discloses [an employment relationship/a financial interest] with [organization], relevant to the subject matter of this content item.
PFN Content Type. [Default template language, included on every content item and removable during customization. Three EXAMPLES, one of which applies:] [1] This is Shared Content under PFN’s General Content Policy. Its factual claims and citations have been verified against primary sources, and it has received peer review. [2] This is Beta Content under PFN’s General Content Policy, designated by [Leader name], for the purpose of [purpose]. The existence of sources cited has been verified; full citation verification has not been completed. [3] This is Exploratory Content under PFN’s General Content Policy, shared only with Participants of the Network Group on [Domain] for purposes of discussion and development. It has not been peer reviewed or verified and should not be treated as a factual claim or analysis checked against PFN’s peer review standards.
Version History
[Include on Beta Content and Shared Content, and may also be included on Network-Group-restricted Exploratory Content where useful. A new version should be recognized as an Update if there is more than a de minimis change to the substance of the page. Corrections of typographical, formatting, or similarly minor errors are not treated as updates.]
Most Recent Update. [Date] [Brief description of what the update did] [URL]
Update. [Date] [Brief description of what the update did] [URL]
Update. [Date] [Brief description of what the update did] [URL]
Initial Version. [Date] [URL]