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I often blog about evidence. One of the things that we are planning over the coming months is how to make our evidence more accessible.  We already publish all of our research findings in the Agency Information Centre and summarise them on our website, but we are planning to take this one step further in the autumn.

We are looking for an organisation to establish and host an open access repository on our behalf.  When this repository goes live you will be able to access all of our research final reports from your pc.  Whether your interest is nutrition or nanotechnology, you will be able to see the evidence and judge for yourself.

Making the findings of our research more accessible is important because, as well as being a record of our research used to inform our policies, it will mean that other researchers, wherever they are based, can make use of our findings.  When there is a significant development in a particular area, it is published in a peer reviewed journal, but researchers out there will know that not all of their work makes it into such publications. 

In the meantime, project summaries of all our research – in progress or complete – can be obtained from our website, with full text available, on request, from our Information Centre.