A new institute faces an obvious temptation: to look established before it is. The Sterling IMRES blueprint is explicit that the website should not publish invented staff, affiliations, findings or credentials, and that it is better to launch with fewer verified records than with a large volume of weakly supported content.
Our first public content follows that rule. The Sterling reference library brings together published articles, standard reference books and registered clinical studies for each of the nine divisions — at least five works per division — chosen because they are landmark, widely used or methodologically important.
How each record is checked
Articles are checked against Crossref using their DOI, which gives us the title, author list, journal, volume, pages and licence exactly as the publisher deposited them. PubMed and PMC identifiers come from NCBI. Books are checked against the publisher’s page or a library catalogue, and studies come directly from ClinicalTrials.gov, including the date the registry entry was last updated.
Summaries are written by our editors in their own words. Original abstracts and full texts stay with the publisher, and every record links back to it.
What a listing means — and what it does not
Listing a work means we consider it useful for study and citation. It does not mean the authors are affiliated with Sterling IMRES, and every library page says so. Authors and editors appear in the people directory only as people credited on those works, with affiliations as published.
Verified Sterling IMRES team profiles, and titles from the proposed Sterling IMRES Press, will be added as they are confirmed.