Editorials - The Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is changing

  • By: David Tovey
  • On: March 17, 2010, 09:00

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With the launch of this, the new homepage of The Cochrane Library, we reach a landmark in the programme of activities aimed at improving the presentation of Cochrane Reviews to our audience. Our “web programme” aims to ensure that The Cochrane Library is a website built around the needs and preferences of its users...

The Impact of Cochrane Reviews

  • By: David Tovey
  • On: July 07, 2010, 09:00

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Research teams who prepare Cochrane Reviews are made up almost entirely of volunteers. The task is onerous, perhaps more so than people who come to this for the first time can imagine, and over time it has become more challenging, as methods aimed at improving internal and external validity advance...

Cochrane in the United States of America

  • By: David Tovey & Robert Dellavalle
  • On: September 22, 2010, 18:11

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On 18 October 2010, the first joint Colloquium between the Campbell and Cochrane Collaborations opens in Keystone, Colorado, USA. The USA last hosted the Cochrane Collaboration Colloquium and annual meeting in 1998 in Baltimore, Maryland. The Colloquium's return to the USA comes on the heels of President Obama's signing of historic health care reform legislation...

Evidence of the people, by the people, and for the people

  • By: Prathap Tharyan
  • On: November 10, 2010, 11:52

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At the recently concluded Colloquium of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations, The Cochrane Collaboration announced that from October 2010, 500 million internet users living in 42 countries with a gross national per capita income of US$ 1250–US$ 3500 will have free direct access to the resources in The Cochrane Library. This initiative is an expansion of the policy introduced in 2007 allowing free one-click access to The Cochrane Library in 67 countries with a gross national income per capita of less than US$ 1250...

Making systematic reviews global

  • By: Lisa Bero & Davina Ghersi
  • On: February 16, 2011, 11:57

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On January 24 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) executive board awarded The Cochrane Collaboration the status of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in official relations with the WHO, establishing a partnership with formalised communication between the two organisations. In this editorial we reflect on the importance of this step and the opportunities that it implies...

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