Useful Research Sites
National Institute for Health Research
http://www.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx
Research Design Service
http://www.ccf.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/RDSMap.aspx
Research Glossary
http://www.rds-sw.nihr.ac.uk/glossary.htm
National Electronic Library for Health
www.library.nhs.uk
Department of Health
www.dh.gov.uk
Health Research Authority, incorporating the Research Ethics Service (formerly the National Research Ethics Service)
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/
NHS Patient Involvement
www.invo.org.uk
Patients’ Forum
http://experience.patient.co.uk
Vienna School of Osteopathy
www.osteopathic-research.com
Cochrane Library
www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html
PubMed
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
National Institute fo Health Research – Clinical Trials Toolkit
www.ct-toolkit.ac.uk/
Research Trial Registers
Controlled trials
www.controlled-trials.com
National Research Register of Health Related Research Projects in England, Scotland and Wales
https://portal.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/NRRArchive.aspx
Statistics
A range of websites exist providing general statistical information. These include:
- Online statistics education developed by Rice University
- VassarStats: website for statistical computation. This comes with a free interactive textbook.
- Will G Hopkins – A new view of statistics
- Online learning resource that includes video tutorials on statistics and probability
Journals
Osteopaths have free access to IJOM as well as some additional journals and articles via the o zone.
Video explaining how osteopaths can access articles published in IJOM and other Elsevier journals:
- Annals of Internal Medicine www.annals.org
- BioMedCentral. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine is an open access peer-reviewed journal www.biomedcentral.com/bmccomplementalternmed/
- British Medical Journal www.bmj.com
- Clinical Biomechanics www.journals.elsevier.com/clinical-biomechanics/
- Clinical Chiropractic (formerly British Journal of Chiropractic) www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/14792354
- European Journal of Pain www.elsevier.com/locate/ejpain
- Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/
- Free Medical Journals www.freemedicaljournals.com
- International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/17460689
- Journal of the American Medical Association http://jama.ama-assn.org
- Journal of the American Osteopathic Association www.jaoa.org
- Journal of Clinical Investigation www.jci.org
- Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) www.jmptonline.org/issues
- Journal of Neuroscience www.jneurosci.org
- Musculoskeletal Science and Practice (formerly Manual Therapy) https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/musculoskeletal-science-and-practice
- Medscape General Medical Information www.medscape.com
- New England Journal of Medicine http://content.nejm.org
- Pain www.elsevier.com/locate/pain
- Spine www.spinejournal.com
- The Lancet www.thelancet.com
- The Medical Literature Guide www.amedeo.com