How to get a report

Reports published within our journal series are available for free download from the website and include the full text and any appendices, as well as executive summaries (four to six pages) and abstracts or mini-summaries where available (one page).

Downloading reports

Journal issues are in the Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF documents.

If you do not already have Acrobat Reader installed on your system, you can visit the Adobe website to download a free copy.

How to order printed copies

You can order printed copies of journals at £20 each, direct from individual project pages of the website. You can order online, by post, by fax or by phone. Find out more. Subscriptions are also available.

Searching

To find a journal you have three alternatives:

  • browse the listing of all published journal issues - most recently published appears first
  • word search - symptoms can be fed into this word search, but on the whole we recommend search strategies based upon the disease and specific technologies of interest. Use the search box in the top right hand corner of the page.
  • advanced search - search by categories such as ICD Disease or ICD Chapter Heading, Health Intervention or Government Imperative. Also search by project number, author, organisation or research type

If you cannot find the journal issue you want it may be that the project concerned has not yet published. If so you can search our project pages and register to receive an email alert on publication. The project details page will give an estimate of the publication date.

Classification

We use the ICD10 classification system for diseases as the main way of classifying our work. This is an internationally recognised disease classification, and we have chosen this as our main index. We recommend using the disease category for finding projects.

The other ways to "classify" our work are locally devised, and provide alternative ways to search for research topics or groupings of research. These systems are not comprehensive or based upon internationally recognised conventions.

Advanced search How to use the search function