National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Journals Library

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will soon start publishing reports of the research it commissions – provided reporting is of sufficient quality – within its own NIHR Journals Library. The Library will comprise a suite of programme–specific journals encompassing the following participating programmes:

• Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme
• NIHR Health Services Research (HSR) programme
• NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme
• NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) programme
• NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) programme
• NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) programme
• MRC-NIHR Methodology Research (MRP) programme

On these pages, you will find information about the project background, plans for developing the NIHR Journals Library, as well as resources for authors who are preparing and submitting final reports for publication. In addition, there is a frequently asked questions page relating to dual publication, copyright and permissions.

The NIHR Journals Library will be managed by the editorial office at the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) based at the University of Southampton. NETSCC is home to evaluation research programmes and is part of the NIHR.

The NIHR Journals Library, based on the Health Technology Assessment journal (www.hta.ac.uk/research), will comprise a suite of programme-specific journals and will be made available online. The impact of Health Technology Assessment was again confirmed by the latest published impact factor (2010) of 4.197, ranking it in the top 10 per cent of medical and health-related journals. It is also indexed on MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, UK PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library and the ISI Science Citation Index.

The NIHR Journals Library will help disseminate the findings of the research commissioned by these programmes, and will provide an important permanent and comprehensive record of the work which has been funded.

The NIHR

The goal of the NIHR is to create a health research system in which the NHS supports outstanding individuals, working in world class facilities, conducting leading edge research focused on the needs of patients and the public.

The NHS reputation for international excellence is growing as it gains recognition for being the preferred host for collaborative and multi-centred research in the public interest in partnership with and for industry. This will benefit patients, society, the NHS and their stakeholders.

The NIHR will work with key partners involved in the different elements of NHS research.

For further information, please see www.nihr.ac.uk