There is a variety of sources about new research on MS. Which you use depends on your own inclinations, and indeed your own resources! The most important source of reliable and accurate scientific research on MS is that contained in the peer-reviewed scientific, and especially neurological, journals. Usually these are not obtainable directly except in specialist medical libraries, but recent key issues and findings on MS from the journals can be obtained through computer searches, often through ordinary libraries, using one of the major medical databases such as ‘Medline’. Increasingly the MS Society in Britain, and the MS Society in the United States are putting out press statements and information on major current research issues, often highlighting advances in their regular Newsletters.
If you have access to the World Wide Web, there are now all sorts of possibilities of keeping track of new research. These include:

• the websites of the MS Society in Britain and the United States;
• the website of MS Trust, which is fast, efficient and up to date;
• using one of the ‘search engines’ on the Web to trawl for updates on MS, and other sources of information;
• joining ones of the growing number of Newsgroups in which people exchange information about new developments and other issues about MS. These latter groups are particularly important in terms of contact with other people with MS, and are often likely to be amongst the first sources of information about all kinds of developments, both scientific and non-scientific.

Web addresses are currently changing too fast to permit any sensible listing here, but one source which is likely to be with us for sometime is the Usenet News Group at news://alt.support.mult-sclerosis. This group hosts 50–100 messages per day and includes announcements about new web pages and updates about existing pages.
The next stage beyond these publications is to go to a good public library (a regional centre rather than a local library) and search for books on MS. Most libraries, including most local public libraries now have computer terminals for keyword and title searches. Library staff are usually keen to help with difficult searches and to help locate specific information.