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Article sharing
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| Inclusion in PubMed Central | Updated introductory information to reflect closure of PMC Canada. |
| General | Section renamed from "Including Cochrane Reviews and Protocols in Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) and Repositories", and separated into general policy and information about including in PubMed Central. Updated general policy text with a link to howIcanshareit.com and a link to Wiley's information on Scholarly Communication Networks. |
October 2018 | Inclusion in PubMed Central | Clarification of dates in NIHR Programme Grants section. |
General | Updated to include scholarly collaboration networks and to reflect new green open access policy. |
Assigning ‘What’s New’ events to Cochrane Reviews
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| General | Added an example of when a new citation is not required: addition of new information to a withdrawal notice. |
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| General | Added an example of when a new citation is not required: addition of a comment and/or a reply to the feedback section but with no other changes to the (apart from minor typographical errors). |
| General | Scenarios updated; the previous iteration of the policy is available as a PDF file. |
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Comments: policy
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| All sections | Minor changes to update in relation to new processes for managing Comments |
| Policy and process overview | Updated contact details |
| Reports and presentations | Added report of Comments received during 2018. Updated information on how to cite comments. |
Comments: editorial management
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02 Sept | Process for dealing with submitted comments | All sections | Major revisions Updated to reflect minor changes to the process for managing Comments. |
| Process for dealing with submitted comments | Updated to reflect minor changes in process for in process for screening Comments | |
| Receiving and responding to comments | Updated to reflect minor changes in process for screening Comments |
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| Updated list of journals from Wiley. |
| Updated to include access for Cochrane Review Group Satellites. |
Conflict of interest: steps to action
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Research Integrity Editors and CoI panel decisions
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24 Feb | Conflict of interest: steps to action Funding Arbiter decisions | Page renamed Conflict of interest: steps to action Research Integrity Editors and CoI panel decisions and updated throughout to reflect that decisions relating to Cochrane's conflict of policy are now made by Research Integrity Editors and the CoI panel (previously Funding Arbiters). | ||
| Table 1: Which What's New/publishing event to use | What's New/publishing event | Table 1: Which What's New/publishing event to use | What's New/publishing event for Protocols changed from 'Major Change', which generates a new citation, to 'Amended' (no new citation) to be consistent with the event required for Reviews. |
| Conflict of interest: steps to action Funding Arbiter decisions | First version published. |
Conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews
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| Policy: conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews | Added following statement at the top of the page: March 2020: This policy was developed in 2014 and applies to all Cochrane Reviews until the launch of the new Cochrane Conflict of Interest Policy for Cochrane Library Content, which is planned for July 2020. After the launch of the 2020 policy, the policy set out below will still apply to the following content: protocols being prepared based on new titles registered before the July launch date; protocols for Cochrane Reviews already in progress before the July 2020 launch date; and Cochrane Reviews (including updates) in progress before the July 2020 launch date. |
| Policy: conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews | Revised out-of-date organizational and product names, including removing reference to the 'About The Cochrane Collaboration' database and updating Cochrane Steering Group to the Cochrane Governing Board. |
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Made minor edits to following sections: 1.1. 2.1. 2.2. 2.2.2. 2.2.3. | ||
| Conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews | Amended to correct minor error in text. |
| Updated text in section 8. If a Cochrane Review Group has questions about conflict of interest. | |
| New text explaining the relationship between the 2014 and 2020 conflict of interest policies: Cochrane has two conflict of interest policies relating to Cochrane Library content. Which policy applies to a particular review or update depends on whether the title of the review was registered (or whether work began on the update in the case of an update) before or after 14 October 2014.
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| Policy: conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews | Added statement at the top of the page October 2020: This policy was developed in 2014 and applies to all Cochrane Reviews that were registered before the launch of the Cochrane Conflict of Interest Policy for Cochrane Library Content (2020) on 14 October 2020, and any updates where the work began on the update before this date. Addition of links to applicable sections of the 2020 policy to Sections 3 and 8. |
| Potential scenarios and actions for editorial teams and authors | Page removed (guidance obsolete) |
Policy: conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews | Added following statement at the top of the page: March 2020: This policy was developed in 2014 and applies to all Cochrane Reviews until the launch of the new Cochrane Conflict of Interest Policy for Cochrane Library Content, which is planned for July 2020. After the launch of the 2020 policy, the policy set out below will still apply to the following content: protocols being prepared based on new titles registered before the July launch date; protocols for Cochrane Reviews already in progress before the July 2020 launch date; and Cochrane Reviews (including updates) in progress before the July 2020 launch date. | |
| Policy: conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews | Revised out-of-date organizational and product names, including removing reference to the 'About The Cochrane Collaboration' database and updating Cochrane Steering Group to the Cochrane Governing Board. |
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| Updated Wiley contact info to Tony Aburrow, Senior Editor, Wiley; taburrow@wiley.com. | |
| Updated to clarify what types of co-publication are available on both pages. | |
| Australian Occupational Therapy Journal changed to 'original commentary' only | |
| Renamed from 'Co-publication forms and templates' and moved template information to Co-publication templates for CRG Managing Editors in the For Editors: editorial management section. | |
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| Agreements between journals and the CDSR for co-publication of Cochrane Reviews | Added Journal of Evidence-based Medicine and Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Medicine. |
| Co-publication process: how to request and implement | Updated links and added new process diagram for clarity. |
| Co-publishing Updates of Cochrane Reviews | Updated links to "permission to co-publish" form and "Co-publication process". |
| Agreements between journals and the CDSR for co-publication of Cochrane Reviews | Co-publication agreements: added "Journal of Evidence-based Medicine" and "Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Medicine". |
| n/a | Updated to reflect restructure of this section. |
| Permission to reuse Cochrane Reviews | New section added: 'Inclusion of a Cochrane Protocol or Review in a thesis or dissertation'. |
| n/a | Minor copy edits. |
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n/a | First publication of the co-publication policy. Policy was developed by Cochrane (Harriet MacLehose and David Tovey) and Cochrane's publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (Bryony Urquhart and Deborah Pentesco-Gilbert). |
Co-publication templates for CRG Managing Editors
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Copy Edit Support
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General | Updated contact details for Copy Edit Support and updated team membership. |
Date fields in Cochrane Reviews: overview
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| General | Removed ‘Assessed as up-to-date’ and ‘Date next stage expected’ Details of removed content: |
| 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
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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. |
Editorial responsibility and approval
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| General | New section that combines previous sections on editorial approval and editorial responsibility. |
Editorial workflows for Cochrane Reviews
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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. |
EMD screening resources
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| Feedback from Associate Editors | First version published. |
Impact factor
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| General | 2019 impact factor added. |
| General | 2018 impact factor report added. |
International editorial organizations: information for Cochrane Editors
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| General | Updated information on activating ISMTE membership. |
Licence for publication forms
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| Submitting forms on behalf of an author | Removed "no form is required, but a Managing Editor must submit a form to enable publication" from circumstance two, when an author is deceased, as this was in contradiction to the directions for editors at Deceased authors. |
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| General | With effect from 25 February 2011, Managing Editors are no longer required to send paper copies of Licence for Publication forms to the Central Executive Team. |
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Managing expectations: what does Cochrane expect of authors, and what can authors expect of Cochrane?
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| General | Moved the linked flowchart about the editorial process for title registration to Title formats for Cochrane Reviews. Updated terminology and removed need for Centres to provide support with queries now covered by Cochrane Support team. |
Proposals for new Cochrane Reviews: editorial management
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| Title formats for Cochrane Reviews | Added wording that Methodology Reviews should be handled by the Methodology Review Group only |
| Review proposal forms | Minor corrections to all forms |
| Review proposal forms | Updated forms for Cochrane Reviews of interventions, diagnostic test accuracy, methology, and prognosis studies, and for Cochrane overviews. |
Review proposal forms | Added form for methodology Cochrane Reviews. | |
| Review proposal forms | Updated forms for Cochrane Reviews of interventions and diagnostic test accuracy studies. Added new form for Cochrane Reviews of prognosis studies. |
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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. |
| Green open access | Clarification of green open access arrangements for Cochrane Reviews and protocols. |
| 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). |
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Inviting peer reviewers | Redirected link to Peer reviewer conduct from previous reference to a 'Resources for peer reviewers' page. | |
| 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. |
Peer review: editorial management
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Inviting peer reviewers | Redirected link to Peer reviewer conduct from previous reference to a 'Resources for peer reviewers' page. | |
| 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. |
Peer review: editorial management
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Inviting peer reviewers | Updated information on what the invitation email to authors should include: "The invitation email should contain the following: The title and abstract and plain language summary of the Cochrane Review (or title only if a protocol);" | |
Cleared up an inconsistency between the policy and guidance around Acknowledgement of peer reviewers: The policy states a named peer-review process, but does not state that peer review names need to be made publicly available. The guidance implied that peer reviewer names should be made publicly available unless anonymity was agreed by the EinC. The wording in the guidance has been changed in the following sections to address this inconsistency: | ||
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Declarations of potential conflicts of interest for peer reviewers: implementation information | Corrected link to conflict of interest policy | |
Acknowledgement | Corrected Archie search term from "Peer reviewer" to "External referee". | |
Exceptions to named peer review: editorial management | Added "Reason(s) for opting to remain anonymous" to the list of information that needs to be provided to the Editorial & Methods Department. | |
Cochrane TaskExchange: new peer reviewers | New section added. | |
Peer review checklists | Updated guidance for consumer peer reviewers to v3. General updates/revisions to branding/format, contact details, and terminology. Updated peer review checklists to v3. Added data protection statement, updated acknowledgement, links and formatting. |
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| Plain Language Expectations for Authors of Cochrane Summaries (PLEACS) | Outdated 'Process of writing plain language summaries' removed. |
| MECIR and PLEACS | New section that includes high-level information about MECIR standards and PRISMA. |
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