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Please see the Cochrane Library editorial policy on co-publication.




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Cochrane does not currently have a specific preprint policy and publishing preprints of Cochrane Reviews is not something we want to allow without more consideration and guidance (i.e. the development of a specific policy).

We would therefore currently advise authors not to upload preprints of unpublished reviews to online preprint servers

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The co-publication of Cochrane Reviews in other journals is permitted in certain circumstances to support the dissemination of the findings of Cochrane Reviews. In general, the journal for the co-publication is likely to be a specialist publication (and therefore reaching a specialist audience) or published in a language other than English (reaching a wider audience). The underlying principles that govern co-publication include the following:

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