This is a non-exhaustive listing of initiative related presentations, media mentions, blog coverage, scientific papers etc.

Prior to instigation of the initiative

• The original Met Office proposal to the 2010 session of the Commission on Climatology is available here
• An opinion piece that appeared in Nature related to this effort is also available. Citation: Peter A. Stott Peter W. Thorne, Nature 465, 158-159 doi:10.1038/465158a
• A follow up letter to Nature is available here, Citation: Peter Stott & Peter Thorne Nature 466, 1040-1040 doi:10.1038/4661040d
• A Nature news piece preceded the workshop, as did a piece in The Economist and Sunday Telegraph
  
• Various versions of the initial workshop agenda are available here, here, here and the final version here

Press and selected blogs subsequent to initiative launch (most recent first)

• IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation) Technical Committee 12 newsletter July 2011
  
• Piece at climatecentral
• Piece in the online version of Significance
• Meeting thoughts at:
• Serendipity (Steve Easterbrook)
• Bryan Lawrence
• Clear Climate Code
• Protons for Breakfast (1) (2) (Michael de Podesta)
  

Presentations/Posters on the work of the Initiative (see also working group and task team pages)

• Summary document for presentation of ISTI progress and recommendations to GCOS Steering Committee, presentation and meeting report, September 2011, ECMWF, Reading, UK (Kate Willett) 
• Presentation on the Initiative from the 4th ACRE Workshop, KNMI, Netherlands, September 2011 and meeting report.
  
• Poster on the initiative from the World Climate Research Program's Open Science Conference, October 2011.
• Talk given at WCRP OSC, October 2011
• Poster at the first Earthtemp network meeting, June 2012
  
• Posters on generic progress and engaging homogenization efforts at EGU 2013
• Poster at TEMPMEKO metrology meeting, October 2013
  
• There were additional talks that are too large to be uploaded here (if links are available at third party sites they are provided but may break) given at:
• NIST, June 2011
• ITS9, March 2012
• ESA Globtemperature user consultation, June 2012
• SAMSI meeting June 2013
  

Papers relating to the initiative and its progress

• Yatagai, A., N. Yasutomi, H. Saito and K. Ishihara (2011)
  Report on Exeter workshop "Creating surface temperature datasets to meet 21st Century challenges",   J. Japan Soc. Hydrol. and Water Resour., 24 (1), 50-57.
• Yatagai, A., N. Yasutomi, H. Saito and K. Ishihara (2011)
  Report on workshop "Creating surface temperature datasets to meet 21st Century challenges", Tenki, 58 (1), 47-53.
• Thorne, Peter W., and Coauthors, 2011: Guiding the Creation of A Comprehensive Surface Temperature Resource for Twenty-First-Century Climate Science. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92, ES40–ES47. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011BAMS3124.1
• Chandler, R. E., Thorne, P., Lawrimore, J. and Willett, K. (2012), Building trust in climate science: data products for the 21st century. Environmetrics, 23: 373–381. doi: 10.1002/env.2141
• Jay Lawrimore, Jared Rennie and Peter Thorne (2013) Responding to the Need for Better Global Temperature Data, EOS, 94 (6), 61–62 DOI: 10.1002/2013EO060002 
• Thorne, Peter W. and co-authors (2013) The International Surface Temperature Initiative. AIP Conference Proceedings 2013, Volume 1552.
• Lawrimore, J H. and co-authors (2013) The international surface temperature initiative's global land surface databank. AIP Conference Proceedings 2013, Volume 1552.
  

Papers that mention the initiative

• Rob Allan, Philip Brohan, Gilbert P. Compo, Roger Stone, Juerg Luterbacher, Stefan Brönnimann (2011) The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. doi: 10.1175/2011BAMS3218.1 (AOP version is available from here)