The EQUATOR Network (www.equator-network.org) is an international 
initiative that aims to facilitate high standards of reporting in health research 
publications. The EQUATOR website pulls together all available guidelines for 
reporting various types of health research studies, guidance on scientific 
writing, examples of good reporting practice and many other useful resources. 
The website is freely accessible and journal editors and research institutions 
are encouraged to alert their researchers and research students - authors and 
peer reviewers to the available resources and link to the EQUATOR website.

The internet-based “Library for Health Research Reporting” has been recently 
upgraded and contains the following resources:

•	Reporting guidelines
•	Reporting guidelines under development
•	Guidance on scientific writing
•	Guidance developed by editorial groups 
•	Medical writers - additional resources
•	Research ethics, publication ethics and good practice guidelines
•	Resources related to development and maintenance of reporting 
guidelines
•	Examples of editorials introducing reporting guidelines
•	Examples of good research reporting
•	Examples of guidelines for peer reviewers 
•	Useful and interesting presentations
•	EQUATOR 'pick' - comments, discussion and other thought provoking 
articles and interesting quotes

The EQUATOR team also pulled some of these resources together to make 
them more relevant and easier to use for our main user groups (see pages 
dedicated to authors, editors and developers of reporting guidelines).

If you are considering writing an editorial or commentary about EQUATOR you 
might find publications on this page useful: http://www.equator-
network.org/about-equator/equator-publications0/  

There are already nearly 200 journals and organisations that link to the 
EQUATOR website

We are also interested to find partners and organisations willing to support our 
initiative. The EQUATOR resources are freely available to everyone to ensure 
their wide use but we need to secure enough financial support for the further 
development and maintenance. We hope to attract research funders worldwide 
to join the UK and Canadian funders to provide support for this valuable 
service.

Please share this information around your institutions.

With kind regards,

Iveta Simera

On behalf of the EQUATOR Network team


EQUATOR Network Steering Group:
Professor Doug Altman, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, 
UK
Dr John Hoey, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Dr David Moher, Clinical Epidemiology Methods Centre, University of Ottawa, 
Canada 
Dr Kenneth F. Schulz, Family Health International, Durham, NC, USA

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