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Authorship and contributorship
Date | Section | What's new |
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| Authorship disputes | New section (replace sentence in older version) with link out to relevant COPE resources. | |
| Deceased authors | Updated Archie/RevMan guidance on email address format. |
| Criteria for authorship (authors on the by-line) | Updated section on 'Acknowledgements' to clarify permission must be granted by named individuals and added a link to relevant section of the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals. |
| Authors using a group name | Separated Archie/RevMan guidance from general guidance. |
| Change in author affiliation | Added new section on a change to author affiliation. | |
| Deceased authors | Updated process for the licence for publication form when author deceased (advised by Publisher): a signed licence is required, but the licence may be submitted by the corresponding author on the others’ behalf (provided he/she had the deceased authors’ agreement and consent to publish in advance of their passing). |
Cochrane Handbooks
Date | Section | What's new |
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| General | Combined pages on the Handbooks (intervention and DTA) with links to websites for both resources. |
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Date | Section | What's new |
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| Cochrane Style Manual information | Deleted and include link to separate Cochrane Style Manual location |
Date fields in Cochrane Reviews: overview
Date | Section | What's new |
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| General | Updated to match current format for published Cochrane Reviews. |
| General | Revised to focus on date fields only. Title changed from "Dates and events in Cochrane Reviews" to reflect this change. |
Defamation
Date | Section | What's new |
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| General | Section changed from "Libel" to "Defamation". Updated links to publisher resources, and added section on "For Editors" plus updated contact details. |
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Date | Section | What's new |
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| General update | Updated heading from "IMS workflow for Cochrane Reviews" to "Editorial workflows for Cochrane Reviews". Added information about using workflows for reviews with no update planned. |
Impact factor
Date | Section | What's new |
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| General | 2018 impact factor report added. |
International editorial organizations: information for Cochrane Editors
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Date | Section | What's new |
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| Gold open access | Clarified that PDF version submitted is set out in the licence for publication forms. |
| Green open access | Clarified that PDF version submitted is set out in the licence for publication forms. |
| Policy overview (open access) | New page for this overview; and added subheading and text for Editorials. |
| Open access policy | Green open access policy was updated. |
| Open access policy (first version) | Open-access options were introduced for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). |
Date fields in Cochrane Reviews: overview
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Peer review
Date | Section | What's new |
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| Exceptions to named peer review: special cases | New page added for the post-implementation phase |
| Type of peer review | Added in text in italic: Note that Consumer peer reviewers are exempt from the named peer review process, and may remain anonymous if they wish to do so. (Consumers still follow the policy for Declarations of potential conflicts of interest for peer reviewers). |
| Peer review policy | Removed "Note: this policy is currently being implemented across all Cochrane groups. It will be implemented fully by all Cochrane groups by January 2019." |
| Type of peer review | Added statement regarding consumer reviewers remaining anonymous. |
| May 2018 | Peer review policy | Organizational peer review policy published: ADD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
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