Author Details Access to and use of research by rural nurses Charlene Winters1 DNSc, Associate professor, winters@montana.edu Helen Lee2 PhD, Professor Emeriti, hlee@montana.edu Jamie Besel3 MN, Adjunct assistant professor, jbesel@montana.edu Aven Strand4 MN, Clinical Nurse Specialist Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, Aven.strand@lackland.af.mil Rebecca Echeverri5 BSN, CNS graduate student and adjunct instructor, recheverri@montana.edu Kathy Jorgensen6 MN, Family nurse practitioner, kathyp@imt.net John Dea7 BSN, FNP graduate student and adjunct instructor, edea@montana.edu 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 Montana State University College of Nursing, Missoula, MT, USA. 4 United States Air Force, Willford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, TX, USA. 6 Planned Parenthood of Montana, Great Falls, MT, USA. Correspondence: C Winters, 32 Campus Drive #7416, Missoula, MT 59812-7416, USA  Author contribution: Charlene A Winters: designed the project, original concept, supervised data collection, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, literature review. Helen J Lee: designed the project, original concept, statistical analysis, literature review, wrote the first draft. Jamie Besel: collected data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts, literature review. Aven Strand: collected data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts. Rebecca Echeverri: collected data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts. Kathy P Jorgensen: collected data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts. John E Dea: collected data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts. Citation: Winters CA, Lee HJ, Besel J, Strand A, Echeverri R, Jorgensen KP, Dea JE.  Access to and use of research by rural nurses. Rural and Remote Health 7 (online), 2007: no. 758. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 31 March 2007 Revised: 14 August 2007 Accepted: 24 August 2007