Guidelines for Web Sites at Harvard Medical School

Accessibility
To read the University-wide guidelines for Web accessibility, please click here.

HMS Shield and Link to the Home Page
The HMS shield with the words “Harvard Medical School” beside or below it linking to the school's homepage (http://hms.harvard.edu) should be on each page, preferably located in the top left corner.

Last Updated
All time-sensitive pages must display at least the month and year in which they were last updated.

Meta Tags
Using meta tags will help search engines find your pages. Information on using meta tags can be found here.

Copyright Notice
Copyright notice should read “Copyright 2009 The President and Fellows of Harvard College” or “©2009 The President and Fellows of Harvard College.”

Links to Commercial Web Sites
Links to commercial web sites are discouraged and should be limited to companies that are active partners with the School. Review by the Harvard Name Committee is required. Even these links should be text only, not corporate logos, and should be low and not prominent on the page.

Approval Process
Before the URL is established and the web site goes on the live server, the Office of Communications and External Relations needs to review content and design for those few issues where we look for consistency across the Harvard Medical web. Web server access and URLs are generally discussed during the review process. Please call (617) 432-0442.

This page was created by the Office of Communications and External Relations.