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Glossary of system terms

How Cochrane systems work together

People and roles

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Menus and actions

Main menu

Manuscript action menu

Manuscript details

Editorial Process

1. Add content to Editorial Manager

Proposals for new reviews or updates

Guidance for topic experts assessing review proposals

Initiate proposal

Solicit commentary

2. Submissions

New submissions

Edit submissions

Assign Editor

Remove submissions and proposals (invitations)

3. Editorial quality checks

Assign an editorial task

Editorial checks

Similarity checks

Declarations of Interest

Supplementary materials: accessing in EM

4. Internal and external review

Discussions

Reviewer roles

Reviewer forms

Invite comments from editors or peer reviewers

Information Specialist search peer review

Internal and external review for diagnostic test accuracy reviews

End reviewer assignments

5. Editorial decisions

Notify authors of editorial decisions

View peer reviewer comments

Editorial decision following peer review

Return peer review comments to authors

Sign-Off Editor decisions

6. Accepting content for publication

Accept content for publication

Copy edit and publication: Central Editorial Service

Licence for Publication forms: Central Editorial Service

Copy edit and publication: group sites

Licence for Publication forms: group sites

Amendments

Living systematic reviews

Withdrawing published content

Features and functions

Searching and reporting 

Search for people

Proxy as another user

Search for reviews

Reports

Enterprise View

Tasks

Information Specialist tasks

Handling Editor tasks

Sign-Off Editor assignments

Sign-Off Editor tasks

Production Manager tasks

Copy Editor tasks

Tracking production tasks

View tasks assigned to me

Change a task due date

Proposal Manager tasks

Independent appeals editor tasks

Emails

Template letters

Automatic notifications and reminders

Storing external emails

Ad hoc emails

Email attachments

Settings 

Flags

Set reviewer preferences

Corresponding Editors

Permissions linked to editorial roles

Red-Amber-Green warning thresholds

Technical configuration - production tasks

High-profile and High-priority submissions

General

File attachments

Planned improvements to Editorial Manager

Transfers 

Transfer submissions to Central Editorial Service