We’re excited to kick off the new year with the second volume in our 2025-26 Doody’s Special Topics Lists series, covering excellence in health research. Legitimacy, reproducibility, and equitability in health research are more important than ever in today’s academic and professional environments. This curated collection gathers resources for clinicians, researchers, educators, and policymakers seeking a higher standard of quality in health research. The list ranges from authoritative guides on research design and methodology to evidence-based practice across the nursing and allied health specialties. There is comprehensive coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research, including growing areas that deal with ever-developing technology such as AI and Big Data analytics. There is also a need to address ethical conduct and integrity, as well as highlight inclusivity, equity, and the importance of representation in research. Combining all these factors and facets, this list covers a comprehensive base for attaining excellence in health research. We hope this book list assists librarians in building collections that empower healthcare professionals and researchers to advance evidence-based practice and trustworthy science across disciplines and care settings. 

This Doody’s Special Topics Lists comprises 51 titles from 21 publishers. The prices for these titles range from $22 to $250, with an average cost of $90.63. Doody’s Core Titles 2025 features numerous titles in this DSTL, including Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice, 10th Edition, Polit and Beck (Wolters Kluwer, 2021), Burns and Grove’s The Practice of Nursing Research, 9th Edition, Gray and Grove (Elsevier, 2021), and Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches, 2nd Edition, Leavy (Guilford Press, 2023). 

Doody’s Review Service subscribers can access the list by clicking  here and logging in.  Doody’s Core Titles customers can view the list by clicking here to log in. Readers may also be able to access the list through one of our licensing partners: EBSCO, GOBI, and Matthews. For help getting access, please contact Customer Service. Stay tuned for the next issue of the Doody’s Special Topics Lists on understanding autism, which is due to be released in April.