The Smeartaker Training Unit has compiled a list of seminal references and further reading. While most references can be downloaded in PDF format, the Smeartaker Training Unit does not have access to all references. However, most references can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.

• A Strategy for Cancer Control in Ireland (2006) - Department of Health and Children
• An Evaluation of the First Phase of the Irish Cervical Screening Programme (2004) - The Women's Health Council, Dublin
• Benefit of Cervical Screening at Different Ages: Evidence from the UK Audit of Screening Histories (2003) - British Journal of Cancer
• Cervical Cancer Screening Programmes: Managerial Guidelines (1992) - World Health Organisation, Geneva
• Effetiveness of Cervical Screening with Age: Population Based Case-Control Study of Prospectively Recorded Data (2009) - Brittish Medical Journal
• Effect of Screening on Incidence & Mortality from Cancer of the Cervix in England: Evaluation on Routinely Collected Statistics (1999) - British Medical Journal
• Emotional Reactions in Women attending a UK Colposcopy Clinic (1995) - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
• European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Cervical Screening (2nd edition) (2008) - International Agency for Research on Cancer 
• Guide for Smeartakers - CervicalCheck (2008) - The National Cervical Screening Programme
• HPV 16 & Cigarette Smoking as Risk Factors for High-grade Cervical Intra-epithelial Neoplasia (1998) - International Journal of Cancer 
• HPV Vaccination - More Answers, More Questions (2007) - The New England Journal of Medicine
• Human Papillomavirus Vaccine - Opportunity and Challenge (2007) - The New England Journal of Medicine
• Annual Report 07/08 (2008) - The National Cancer Screening Service
• Natural History of Cervical Intra-epithelial Neoplasia: A Critical Review (1993) - International Journal of Gynaecological Pathology
• Report of the Department of Health & Children Cervical Screening Committee (1996) - Department of Health & Children
• Review of Current Knowledge on HPV Vaccination: An Appendix to the European Guideleines for Quality Assurance in Cervical Cancer Screening (2007) - Journal of Clinical Virology
• Report on the Irish Cervical Screening Programme (2004) - Eugene McGoogan
• Screening for Cancer of the Uterine Cervix (1986) - International Agency for Research on Cancer
• Screening for Cervical Cancer: A Review of Women's Attitudes, Knowledge & Behaviour (1998) - British Journal of General Practice
• The 2001 Bethesda System: Terminology for Reporting Results of Cervical Cytology (2002) - Journal of the American Medical Association
• Women's Experience of Coping with a Positive PAP Smear (2003) - Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica