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GeneralSection 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 2018Inclusion in PubMed CentralClarification of dates in NIHR Programme Grants section.

GeneralUpdated 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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  • Page title changed from “What's New events (publishing events) in Cochrane Reviews: new publication, new citation, or change in publication status” to “Policy for assigning ‘What’s New’ events”
  • Text changed to clarify policy requirements
  • Text about citations moved to new section ‘About citation versions’.

 

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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  • Title change from "Registering titles for new Cochrane Reviews" to two sections "Cochrane Review proposals" (for prospective authors) and "Managing proposals for new Cochrane Reviews".
  • Clarified what is policy, and provided links for additional information for authors and editors.

 

Proposals for new Cochrane Reviews: editorial management

Flowchart for registration of new titles replaced by guidance to accompany revised proposal forms. Added information on conflict of interest declarations, data protection, and storage of forms. 

Cochrane Review updates

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Policy (: Cochrane Review updates)Definition of updates and amendments: removed note that definitions from Handbook.

  

General revisionSeparated policy into sections.

 

Living systematic reviewsGeneral update; and this section added to updates.

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Policy (: conflicts of interest and Cochrane Reviews)Revised out-of-date organizational and product names, including removing reference to the 'About The Cochrane Collaboration' database and updating Cochrane Steering Group to the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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Policy and overview (: co-publication)Minor updates to names/dates etc.

 

Agreements between journals and the CDSR for co-publication of Cochrane Reviews
  • Title changed from "Agreements between journals and the CDSR for co-publication of Cochrane Reviews" to "Agreements with journals for the co-publication of Cochrane Reviews".
  • Added Canadian Urological Association Journal, Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, and PM&R (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation).
  • Updated contact details.

  

Publishing summaries (e.g. a ‘Cochrane Corner’) of Cochrane Reviews in another journal or resource

  

Simultaneous publication: publication in a journal on the same or similar date
  • Updated contact details.

 

Prior publication: publication in a journal before publication in the CDSR
  • Updated contact details.

 

Post-publication: publishing in a journal after publication in the CDSR
  • Updated contact details.

 

Co-publication forms and templates
  • Updated contact details.
  • Updated contact details and minor edits to Word file (Cochrane-copublication-form).

 

Agreements between journals and the CDSR for co-publication of Cochrane ReviewsAdded Journal of Evidence-based Medicine and Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Medicine.

 

Co-publication process: how to request and implementUpdated links and added new process diagram for clarity.

 

Co-publishing Updates of Cochrane ReviewsUpdated links to "permission to co-publish" form and "Co-publication process".

 

Agreements between journals and the CDSR for co-publication of Cochrane ReviewsCo-publication agreements: added "Journal of Evidence-based Medicine" and "Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Medicine".

 

n/aUpdated 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/aMinor copy edits.

 

n/aMinor copy edits.

n/aFirst 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).

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Moved the linked flowchart about the editorial process for title registration to Editorial process (: titles).

Updated terminology and removed need for Centres to provide support with queries now covered by Cochrane Support team.

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Review proposal forms
  • Renamed "Managing title registration (for Cochrane Review Groups)" to "Review proposal forms". Removed historical note that these forms, developed by the Cochrane Editorial Resources Committee (since disbanded), were previously called Title Registration Forms and were renamed "review proposal forms" in 2013.
  • Updated to latest version of forms (August 2019), including revisions for data protection compliance.

 

Editorial process (: titles)Collated relevant information; added the flowchart (previously linked to Managing expectations: what does Cochrane expect of authors, and what can authors expect of Cochrane?).

 

General
  • Title change from "Registering titles for new Cochrane Reviews" to two sections "Cochrane Review proposals" (for prospective authors) and "Managing proposals for new Cochrane Reviews".
  • Removed text about registering diagnostic test accuracy reviews (out of date).

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