Information Resources and Publications

The National Center’s website, www.ncptsd.va.gov, is a valuable resource for people seeking information — scientists, clinicians, journalists, policymakers, and the families and friends of people suffering from traumatic stress-related disorders. Usage of the Center’s website has grown dramatically in recent years, largely in response to world events. Traffic to the site has risen from approximately 20,000 users per month before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to over 1 million unique users during fiscal year 2006. In total the website currently contains more than 1,600 documents, 140 fact sheets, 600 downloadable articles, and nine videos, including a speech by the Surgeon General and a series of expert lectures on PTSD. .

The National Center’s PTSD Research Quarterly, a guide to the scientific literature on traumatic stress and PTSD, is published 4 times per year, and a new electronic newsletter was recently established: CTU-Online or Clinician’s Trauma Update Online. The CTU-Online is distributed every two months via email and contains summaries of clinically relevant publications in the trauma field, helping keep clinicians and researchers up on the latest research.

The PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) database now includes over 30,000 records. PILOTS is increasingly being acknowledged as a critical resource by literature reviews that are indexed on the database.