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A searchable catalogue of more than 700 reporting guidelines for health research. You can filter it by study type, clinical area and report section to find the right checklist for a manuscript.
The official home of the 2025 SPIRIT checklist for trial protocols and the 2025 CONSORT checklist for reporting randomised trial results. Checklists, explanation papers and free online writing aids can all be downloaded at no cost.
The main reporting guideline for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The site provides the checklist, the flow-diagram template, the explanation papers, extensions for other review types and translations.
The widely adopted standards on authorship, conflicts of interest, peer review and publication ethics for medical journals. The latest version, updated January 2026, can be read online or downloaded as a PDF.
NLM's official training for searching PubMed, including short video quick tours, longer tutorials, on-demand classes and handouts. It is regularly updated, and some classes ask for free registration.
A free library of more than 3,000 medical illustrations covering anatomy, physiology, pathology and treatment. The images are licensed CC BY 4.0, so they can be adapted for slides, posters, theses and articles with attribution.
