Links to other resources

 

• Initiatives to improve research design, conduct, and reporting
• Research methodology and statistics
• Blogs, online discussions, collections on reporting
• Editorial organisations and guidelines
• Professional organisations and associations
• Copyright information
• Research integrity and ethics
• Other useful links
• Initiatives that EQUATOR supports

Initiatives to improve research design, conduct, and reporting

• COMET (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials) Initiative –
  development and application of agreed standardised sets of outcomes
• CONSORT Statement
• Core outcome networks / groups / collaborations
• The IDEAL Collaboration
• StaR Child Health – Standards for research in child health
• MIBBI – Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations
• ORION Statement
• PRISMA Statement
• PROSPERO – Register of systematic reviews
• REWARD Alliance
• STARD Statement
• STRICTA Statement
• STROBE Statement
• SQUIRE Statement
• TREND Statement
• CONSORT Plus – Trial bank project
• MERIDIAN (Menagerie of Reporting guidelines Involving Animals)
• Nutritools – Dietary assessment guidelines and tools for the design and conduct of epidemiological and clinical studies
• AIMe Registry – a community-driven platform for reporting biomedical AI systems
• PROTEUS Consortium – patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials and clinical practice

Research methodology and statistics

• RD Direct – Research Flowchart (PDF) (currently under update)
• Survey and Questionnaire Design Resources
• Tom Lang. Twenty Statistical Errors Even YOU can Find in Biomedical Research Articles. Croatian Medical Journal. 2004;45(4):361-370

Blogs, online discussions, collections on reporting

• BiomedCentral Blog – Open Data
• BMJ Research Methods & Reporting – Collection of published papers
• PLoS Medicine Blog on Reporting
• PLoS Medicine Guidelines and Guidance – Collection of published papers

Editorial organisations and guidelines

• COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics
• CSE – Council of Science Editors
• EASE – European Association of Science Editors
• FAME editorial guidelines (Forum for African Medical Editors (PDF))
• ICMJE – International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations)
  [formerly Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication]
• ISMTE – International Society of Managing and Technical Editors
• International Academy of Nursing Editors
• WAME – World Association of Medical Editors

Professional organisations and associations

• The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
• AuthorAID – supporting developing-country researchers in publishing their work
• International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
• International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)
• Society for Scholarly Publishing
• The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
• International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM)

Copyright information

• Creative Commons
• UK Copyright Service
• US Copyright Office

Research integrity and ethics

• CODEX – rules and guidelines for research (online access to codes, laws, regulations, rules and guidelines)
• Office of Research Integrity (US)
• UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO)
• World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation – fostering the exchange of information and discussion about responsible conduct of research

Other useful links

• The Publication Plan – a central online news resource for professionals involved in the development of medical publications
• Cochrane
• Instructions to Authors – a repository of instructions to authors from 6000 journals in the health and life sciences  (Mulford Library, University of Toledo )
• James Lind Library – helping to understand fair tests of treatments in health care
• Testing Treatments – an interactive website based on a book Testing Treatments explaining how treatments should be evaluated
• MORE – McMaster Online Rating of Evidence

The EQUATOR Network supports the following initiatives: