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Appeals policy: editorial management
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| Appeals policy: editorial management Appeals process | Edited to reflect updated policy and process active from 27 October 2022. |
| Support resources (appeals) | Added information about COPE and relevant resources. |
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| 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. |
| October 2018 | ADD | Clarification of dates in NIHR Programme Grants section |
| General | Updated to include scholarly collaboration networks and to reflect new green open access policy |
Authorship and contributorship
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Article sharing
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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). |
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| 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 | Combined pages on the Handbooks (intervention and DTA) with links to websites for both resources. |
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| Digital object identifier (DOI) and website address (URL) of a Cochrane Review | Updated with new Cochrane Library URL and Crossref DOI display guidelines. | ||
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| Policy for assigning ‘What’s New’ events | Scenarios updated; the previous iteration of the policy is available as a PDF file. |
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| General | Added report of Comments received during 2018. Updated information on how to cite comments. |
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- Removed section about Journalists (as information available on Cochrane Library).
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- Added Canadian Urological Association Journal, Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, and PM&R (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation).
- Updated contact details.
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| Deceased authors: RevMan and Archie guidance | Minor edit to correct the order of the steps in the guidance. | |
| 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
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| General | Updated link to new Handbook. |
| General | Combined pages on the Handbooks (intervention and DTA) with links to websites for both resources. |
Complaints procedure: Cochrane Library
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| General | Changed to link to policy on Cochrane Library to remove duplication of content. |
Cochrane Review Group Specialized Register: request for exemptions
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| General | New. |
Cochrane Review proposals
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| Cochrane Review proposals | Full text removed, prior to new proposal process set to begin on 24 June 2022. Note added directing users to the Cochrane Library Author information page as first source of author-facing information on this topic. |
| Cochrane Review proposals | Notification added directing users to the new Cochrane Library Editorial Policies page as the source for policy on review proposals. |
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| General revision | Separated policy into sections. |
| Living systematic reviews | General update; and this section added to updates. |
Citation versions: DOIs and URLs
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25 Jun | 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
| Digital object identifier (DOI) and website address (URL) of a Cochrane Review | Updated with new Cochrane Library URL and Crossref DOI display guidelines. |
Comments: policy
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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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| 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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| 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. |
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Highlighted where Cochrane membership opportunities.
- Updated contact details.
- Updated description of EQUATOR Network
- Added section on ORCID (text moved from separate standalone page). Removed line about Cochrane Library publication of ORCID IDs.
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| Process for dealing with submitted comments | Updated to reflect minor changes in process for screening Comments |
| Receiving and responding to comments | Updated to reflect minor changes in process for screening Comments |
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Complimentary access to selected Wiley journals for Cochrane Review Groups and Satellites
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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 Research Integrity Editors and CoI panel decisions
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- Revised authorship criteria for consistency with ICMJE criteria.
- Authors are directed to the Cochrane Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource for Cochrane’s updating policy.
- Removed text about Cochrane Review Group approval ahead of publication (moved to Cochrane Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource).
- Changed following author rights:
- Revised the rights to post in repositories and Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs).
- Added sharing rights with colleagues.
- Updated the section on contributions owned by Employer to include US National Institutes of Health (US NIH) employees and grantees, and UK National Institute for Health Research (UK NIHR).
- Updated hyperlinks and minor text edit updates, including the addition of generic email addresses for all Wiley contacts and directing authors to Rightslink for permission requests.
Note: Note that version 3 of the Cochrane standard (green OA) licence for publication form was due to launch on 21September 2016. Due to a technical hitch the new licence for publication form was not actually available until 14 October 2016. During this time 53 Cochrane Reviews and 29 Cochrane protocols were published under the previous version of the licence for publication. We would like to apologize for this and assure all Authors affected that we will honour the new licence terms, as described above. If you have any questions about this, please contact the Cochrane Editorial & Methods Department (emd@cochrane.org).
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- Amended to reflect the introduction of green open access.
- Introduces the new right for authors to post the final accepted version of the Protocolor Review (in a format specified by the Publisher) in an institutional repository or any repository mandated by the author’s funder, such as [insert an appropriate example], 12 months after publication.
- Introduces text to explain automatic deposition to PMC and free access on CDSR 12 months after publication
- Clarifies the right to post the Protocol or Review as an electronic file on the author’s own website and/or the author’s institution’s intranet (previously stated website), using the PDF version of the article available in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
Other change:
- Minor editing to the introductory text in italic as shown in the Policy Manual and RevMan versions (not needed in the Archie version).
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- Authors are directed to the Cochrane Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource for Cochrane’s updating policy.
- Removed text about Cochrane Review Group approval ahead of publication (moved to Cochrane Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource).
- Changed following author rights:
- Revised the rights to post in repositories and Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs).
- Added sharing rights with colleagues.
- Updated the section on contributions owned by Employer to include US National Institutes of Health (US NIH) employees and grantees, and UK National Institute for Health Research (UK NIHR)
- Updated hyperlinks and minor text edits, including the addition of generic email addresses for all Wiley contacts and directing authors to Rightslink for permission requests.
Note: Note that version 3 of the Cochrane standard (green OA) licence for publication form was due to launch on 21 September 2016. Due to a technical hitch the new licence for publication form was not actually available until 14 October 2016. During this time 53 Cochrane Reviews and 29 Cochrane protocols were published under the previous version of the licence for publication. We would like to apologise for this and assure all Authors affected that we will honour the new licence terms, as described above. If you have any questions about this, please contact the Cochrane Editorial & Methods Department (emd@cochrane.org).
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- Amended to reflect the introduction of green open access.
- Introduces the new right for authors to post the final accepted version of the Protocol or Review (in a format specified by the Publisher) in an institutional repository or any repository mandated by the author’s funder, such as [insert an appropriate example], 12 months after publication.
- Introduces text to explain automatic deposition to PMC and free access on CDSR 12 months after publication
- It also clarifies the right to post the Protocol or Review as an electronic file on the author’s own website and/or the author’s institution’s intranet (previously stated website), using the PDF version of the article available in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. These new terms are backdated to 1 February 2013 for all authors who have signed the Licence for Publication Form between 1 February 2013 and today.
Other changes:
- New sections added to the Archie and RevMan versions (were already included in the Cochrane Policy Manual version): UK Government work (Crown Copyright); US Government work; Other Government work; World Health Organization (WHO) work.
- New addition: National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantees.
- Minor editing to the introductory text in italic as shown in the Policy Manual and RevMan versions (not needed in the Archie version).
Addendum to licence for publication of a World Health Organization (WHO) manuscript as a Cochrane Review
- Corrected the number of the addendum clauses.
- Updated the following sentence in Clause 7 to include non-WHO author rights: “The preferred format is “The World Health Organization and [Author X] and [Author Y] retain copyright and all other rights in their respective contributions to the manuscript of this Review as submitted for publication”.”
- Addendum has been prepared as a Microsoft Word (97-2003) file for authors to download from the Cochrane Policy Manual.
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- Field added for digital object identifier (DOI) version number.
- Revised authorship criteria for consistency with ICMJE criteria.
- Authors are directed to the Cochrane Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource for Cochrane’s updating policy, consistent with the standard licence.
- Removed text about Cochrane Review Group approval ahead of publication (moved to Cochrane Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource), consistent with the standard licence.
- Terms of use: removed line around “commercial purposes” in the CC BY licence.
- “permission to republish” sections updated so that they are relevant to individual CC BY licences (e.g. NC/ND versions).
- Changed following author rights:
- Revised the rights to post in repositories and Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs).
- Added sharing rights with colleagues.
- Updated the section on contributions owned by Employer to include US National Institutes of Health (US NIH) employees and grantees, and UK National Institute for Health Research (UK NIHR).
- Updated hyperlinks and minor text edit updates, including the addition of generic email addresses for all Wiley contacts and directing authors to Rightslink for permission requests.
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- In Clause 5, a contact email address for seeking permission to re-publish was provided and the postal address for John Wiley and Sons Ltd. was removed.
- Clause 6 was split. The content of that section now forms two Clauses. Clause 7 now starts at the sentence beginning with ‘WHO agrees that any and all copies of the Review’. All Clauses following this have been re-numbered.
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| 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 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
Date | Section | What's new |
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| Policy: conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews | 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. |
Co-publication
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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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Arranging co-publication of a Cochrane Review:
Co-publication agreements with other journals:
Co-publication forms and templates
Reuse of published Cochrane content by Cochrane Groups
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| Agreements between journals and the CDSR for co-publication of Cochrane Reviews |
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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. |
| n/a | Minor copy edits. |
| 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:
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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
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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 | Added impact reports for 2018, 2019, 2020 (2018 report had been present only as 'pending'). Removed 2012 guidance for CRGs on how to influence impact factor. |
| 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 | Removed content from page and installed redirect to https://www.cochranelibrary.com/about/author-information. |
| 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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| Title formats for Cochrane Reviews | Collated relevant information; added the flowchart (previously linked to Managing expectations: what does Cochrane expect of authors, and what can authors expect of Cochrane?). |
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Open access
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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). |
Overlapping scope: editorial management
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| Steps to resolve potential overlap with a new title |
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Peer review: policy
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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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| Updated checklists to include up to date links to Handbook: | ||
| 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: | ||
| 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. |
Permission to reuse Cochrane Reviews
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| General update | Policy focuses on Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and section heading reflects this. General revisions for currency. Removed following sections as information available on the Cochrane Library: Permission to re-use of material from the Cochrane Library website; Reprints of Cochrane Review. Removed following section as information available on the Handbook Cochrane pages: Permission to re-use material from the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. |
Permission to reuse Cochrane Reviews: translator terms and conditions
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- The ‘INSERT TITLE’ section of Clause 1 was removed.
- In Clause 1, the sentence in parenthesis referring to non-PAHO authors was removed.
- In Clause 5, a contact email address for seeking permission to re-publish was provided and the postal address for John Wiley and Sons Ltd. was removed.
- Clause 6 was split. The content of that section now forms two Clauses. Clause 7 now starts at the sentence beginning with ‘PAHO agrees that any and all copies of the Review’. All Clauses following this have been re-numbered.
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- Removed text about registering diagnostic test accuracy reviews (out of date).
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- Changed step 16 to reflect current topics publication process: "The protocol and subsequent review are included in both CRGs’ Topic Lists, which are reflected on the 'Browse' menu in the Cochrane Library." to "CRGs can add the protocol and subsequent review to both CRGs’ topic lists."
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Removed following section as information available on the Handbook Cochrane pages: Permission to re-use material from the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
Plagiarism: policy
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11 Jun | Across policy | Minor revisions for currency and updates of contact details. |
| September 2014 | n/a | New policy; the following group of people contributed to the development of this policy: Ann Jones, Anna Hobson, Gavin Stewart, Harriet MacLehose, Karin Dearness, Laura Prescott, Liz Wager, Paul Garner, Peter Tugwell, Phil Wiffen, Ruth Brassington, Sera Tort. The starting point for this policy was text drafted by Liz Wager and Phil Wiffen on publication ethics, including plagiarism. |
Plagiarism: editorial management
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11 Jun | Across policy | Minor revisions for currency and updates of contact details. |
| September 2014 | n/a | New policy; the following group of people contributed to the development of this policy: Ann Jones, Anna Hobson, Gavin Stewart, Harriet MacLehose, Karin Dearness, Laura Prescott, Liz Wager, Paul Garner, Peter Tugwell, Phil Wiffen, Ruth Brassington, Sera Tort. The starting point for this policy was text drafted by Liz Wager and Phil Wiffen on publication ethics, including plagiarism. |
Promoting Cochrane Reviews: how to plan dissemination activities
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04 Jul | General | Content revised and directs readers to locations for key information on dissemination. |
Rejection of Cochrane Reviews: policy
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11 Jun | Policy: rejection of Cochrane Reviews | Moved 'definitions' from a standalone section and into the 'Policy' section. Edited wording of 'withdrawn' definition. |
| August 2017 | New policy | Added to policy resource. |
Rejection policy: editorial management
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| Implementing the rejection policy | Amended instructions for unpublished Cochrane Review or unpublished update of a Cochrane Review (on the history tab). |
| August 2017 | New policy | Added to policy resource. |
Reporting search dates in Cochrane Reviewssearch dates in Cochrane Reviews
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| General | Clarified definition of "Full search – results fully incorporated" in Table and provided references. |
January 2015 | General information | At the joint meetings of the Co-ordinating Editors, Managing Editors, and Trials Search Co-ordinators held during the Cochrane Colloquia in Auckland (2012) and Quebec (2013) it was agreed that ‘Date of search’ should be used instead of ‘Assessed as up-to-date’ to reflect the search and full incorporation of all search results into a Cochrane Review. The technical issues associated with retiring the ‘Assessed as up-to-date’ field are currently being addressed by Cochrane and Wiley; however this will not prevent editorial teams from adhering to this new policy on how to report search dates.to report search dates. |
Serious errors in published Cochrane Reviews
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| General | Updated and revised: definition of serious errors revised to include factual errors in describing one or more included studies; and the process has been revised to direct notification to the Editor in Chief who will work with the Co-ordinating Editor and Network Senior Editor. |
Standards for Cochrane Reviews
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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. |
Submission: policy
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| General | First version published. |
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External data and files
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18 Jun | General | General revision. |
| General | Expanded the options for suitable repositories. |
Updating Classification System
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| Support resources (updating classification system) | Added report on publication |
| Guide to applying to Cochrane Reviews | Added updated version of guide. |
| Guide to applying to Cochrane Reviews | Added updated version of guide. |
| Support resources (updating classification system) | Added recording of webinar and PDF file of webinar slides. |
Withdrawing published Cochrane Reviews: policy
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| General | Definition of serious errors revised to include factual errors in describing one or more included studies. |
28 Jun | General | Policy updated to define that reviews should only be withdrawn in exceptional circumstances, as set out in the policy. |
Withdrawing published Cochrane Reviews: editorial management
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| Steps to withdraw a Cochrane Review | Clarified which steps should be used for published protocols of Cochrane Reviews. |
28 Jun | General | New section to reflect updated policy. |
Archived pages
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25 Jun | General | Following sections removed:
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20 Jun | Introduction to Publish When Ready | Document prepared for the move from monthly publication to 'when ready' publication for Cochrane Reviews and protocols for Cochrane Reviews. Covered following areas: About Publish When Ready (general information); Publish When Ready publication steps and schedules; Author and editing steps; Impact on other databases and published content; Changes for dissemination activities, including press releases; Publication reports; Upon publication in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and The Cochrane Library; and Support and training. Previously hosted on https://community.cochrane.org. Updated: minor update 26 November 2014, introduced initially in June 2013. Download PDF |
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