Research Dissemination
NIHR Dissemination Centre

The aim of the NIHR Disemination centre is to put good research evidence at the heart of decision making in the NHS, public health and social care. The work is intended to help clinicians, commissioners and patients to make evidence-based decisions about which treatments and practices are most effective and provide the best use of resources. The dissemination centre appraise the latest health research from both within the NIHR and other research organisations to identify the most reliable, relevant and significant findings and disseminate these findings as actionable, accessible, and trustworthy information in the form of Signals, Highlights and Themed Reviews.

CSO contributes to NIHR funding to allow researchers based in Scotland to apply for the majority of the research programmes administered by NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC).  Therefore summaries and reviews published by the NIHR dissemination centre includes research performed in Scotland,  funded either via the NETSCC schemes or by other funders.

CSO Funding Schemes

Abstracts are available for all CSO funded projects and when the projects are finalised a Research Briefing is added to the table with a summary of the results and outcomes of the project.

 

CSO Outturn Summary

Extracts of annual figures from official internal monitoring documents are provided for an insight of how the delegated CSO budget is used.

 

ResearchFish

CSO uses the ResearchFish system to collect the outputs from grants and fellowships that it funds. Collection of such information is vital in order for CSO to be able to demonstrate the value of the research it funds and highlight case studies of where a genuine impact on the health service has been realised.

 

Open Access Policy

CSO aims to ensure the widest and fastest possible dissemination of the research it supports, thereby encouraging the rapid uptake of research finding into clinical practice. CSO is also committed to ensuring that the outputs from the research it funds are publicly available.In order to facilitate compliance with our open access policy an application may be made for open access publication charges up to a limit of £6,000. This support is limited to papers presenting the methods and/or findings of the study, and which are accepted for publication within 18 months of completion of the project (taken as the date of financial reconciliation). Applications for open access publication charges should be made on Form 6a.

For CSO grants other dissemination costs (such as feedback of findings to research participants or healthcare practitioners, or other decision makers) and costs associated with data-sharing, such as preparation of datasets for archiving or compilation of metadata may be applied for separately up to a limit of £2,000 within six months of completion of the project. Applications should be made on Form6b.

CSO Fellows are allowed to apply separately for help with costs of attending conferences (one per year, which in the final year can be overseas).  These costs do not count towards the £6,000 limit for open access publication charges.  Applications should be made on Form 6c.

 

Europe PubMed Central

CSO is one of the funders of this resource which offers free access to biomedical literature resources.

 

UK Health Research Analysis

CSO participates in this analysis, the last report which covers research supported in 2014 was published in August 2015.

 

 CSO is also committed to an open and transparent system for awarding research.  As such we publish proactively the minutes of all of our Research Advisory Committee meetings, which detail grants awarded and final reports received.