Information specialists within Cochrane generally work with their review authors and editorial staff, but rarely have a chance to work with another information specialist to produce a search strategy, or to collaborate on a review.
Samantha (Sam) Cox (Information Specialist at Cochrane ENT) and Anne Littlewood (Information Specialist at Cochrane…
October 23 2020
Dear Cochrane friends and colleagues,
I hope this email finds you well and safe. I am pleased to send you a summary of Cochrane’s COVID-19 work for October 12-23. More information about this and our other work is available on Cochrane.org or on our coronavirus research and news page.
On October 21, we published the Special Collection:…
October 23 2020
A round-up of active tender and funding opportunities that may be of interest to Cochrane contributors, authors, and groups - updated through the month.
Additional funding resources
UKRI Future Leaders FellowshipsWho should apply? UK Cochrane Groups who would like to host a fellow at up to 80% FEC for Academic InstitutionsCountry funding open…
October 20 2020
A round-up of Cochrane community news from contributors, colleagues, and partners - updated through the month. For community events, please see our 'events round-up'.
October 2020
New Cochrane CARG and EC Managing Editor
New Co-ordinating PaPaS Editor: Dr Neil O'Connell
Professor Christopher Eccleston has stepped down as PaPaS Co-ordinating…
October 19 2020
Cochrane is in the final year of its multi-year strategic plan, Strategy to 2020.
Strategy to 2020 has set in motion transformational change in the way Cochrane works at all levels of the organization with the aim of giving us the best chance to achieve our mission. Goal 4 of Strategy to 2020 challenged us to be a diverse, inclusive, and…
October 15 2020
Cochrane is pleased to announce that our revised Conflict of Interest Policy for Cochrane Library Content has taken effect as of today, October 14, 2020.
The revised Policy now applies to all reviews registered from today and to any updates where work began after today. A Conflict of Interest portal has been set up at http://conflictofinterest.…
October 14 2020
Cochrane Rehabilitation, one of 13 Cochrane Fields, has recently published details of its communication strategy in an article in the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Dedicated to knowledge translation related to rehabilitation evidence and evidence-based rehabilitation practice, Cochrane Rehabilitation has organized five…
October 13 2020
The efficient retrieval of evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is core to Cochrane's work. Cochrane developed its own search filters to identify reports of RCTs in 1994 (updated most recently in 2008). These search filters, published in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, are widely used across Cochrane and…
October 8 2020
Karen Head is writing on behalf of Cochrane’s Knowledge Translation Evaluation Working Group. The working group is made up of people across Review Groups, Fields, Geographic Groups and the Central Executive Team. In 2020 the working group has been finding out how to support Cochrane Groups that want to evaluate their knowledge translation work.…
October 7 2020
In order to be relevant to the needs of users, Cochrane evidence needs to respond to national, regional, and global health priorities. This page provides a round-up of current priority setting activities submitted by Cochrane Groups - updated throughout the month. See the 'Priority Setting' pages of Cochrane Training for additional information on…
October 5 2020
In this blog, Cochrane UK’s Knowledge Brokers, Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig, introduce new guidance for anyone who needs to choose images for a dissemination product based on any Cochrane Review, which may also be helpful for others interested in image selection, and reflect on what they’ve learned along the way. In this blog, we highlight a…
October 5 2020
The abstracts that were originally submitted for presentation at the Cochrane Colloquium that was planned to take place in Toronto, Canada, on 4-7 October 2020 are now available in a special Supplement to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
In May 2020, as a result of the continuing spread and impact of COVID-19, Cochrane’s Governing…
October 1 2020
Cochrane is in the final year of its multi-year strategic plan, Strategy to 2020.
Strategy to 2020 has set in motion transformational change in the way Cochrane works at all levels of the organization with the aim of giving us the best chance to achieve our mission. Goal 3 of Strategy to 2020 challenged us to make Cochrane the ‘home of evidence…
October 1 2020
A round-up of active surveys submitted by Cochrane contributors, colleagues, and partners seeking input from the Cochrane Community - updated through the month
Title: Use of automation tools in systematic reviews, health technology assessments & guideline development – a surveyGeneral information: We are seeking information on how…
October 1 2020
Learn about Knowledge Translation in Cochrane with the launch of the KT online learning module!
Blog author Karen Head is the Cochrane Knowledge Translation Project Manager and a Cochrane author. She works to support KT projects and help share learnings about knowledge translation across Cochrane.
As someone who is more used to conducting meta-…
September 28 2020
Cochrane is in the final year of its multi-year strategic plan, Strategy to 2020.
Strategy to 2020 has set in motion transformational change in the way Cochrane works at all levels of the organization with the aim of giving us the best chance to achieve our mission. Goal 2 of Strategy to 2020 challenged us to make Cochrane evidence accessible…
September 21 2020
Cochrane is pleased to announce that we have appointed a new Conflict of Interest Panel. This independent panel will work with Cochrane’s Research Integrity Team to arbitrate on potential breaches of the Cochrane Conflict of Interest Policy for Cochrane Library Content and provide general guidance on how the policy should be applied. The new…
September 21 2020
Cochrane is in the final year of its multi-year strategic plan, Strategy to 2020.
Strategy to 2020 has set in motion transformational change in the way Cochrane works at all levels of the organization with the aim of giving us the best chance to achieve our mission. Goal 1 of Strategy to 2020 gets to the heart of Cochrane’s work: To produce high…
September 10 2020
The Author Representatives on the Cochrane Council invite you to join the new Cochrane Author Panel. Authors of Cochrane Reviews or Protocols can join and will have the opportunity to input into the organisation’s strategic decision-making, through the Author Representatives. Members of the Author Panel will input on relevant decisions to be made…
September 7 2020
Would you like guidance on your Cochrane knowledge translation (KT) project or activity? Are you keen to share your KT experience and learnings with others? We are pleased to announce that the Cochrane KT mentoring Scheme is now open for new mentors and mentees until 30th September 2020.
The mentoring scheme aims to connect people who are…
September 1 2020
Information specialists within Cochrane generally work with their review authors and editorial staff, but rarely have a chance to work with another information specialist to produce a search strategy, or to collaborate on a review. Samantha (Sam) Cox (Information Specialist at Cochrane ENT) and Anne Littlewood (Information Specialist at Cochrane…October 23 2020
Dear Cochrane friends and colleagues, I hope this email finds you well and safe. I am pleased to send you a summary of Cochrane’s COVID-19 work for October 12-23. More information about this and our other work is available on Cochrane.org or on our coronavirus research and news page. On October 21, we published the Special Collection:…October 23 2020
A round-up of active tender and funding opportunities that may be of interest to Cochrane contributors, authors, and groups - updated through the month. Additional funding resources UKRI Future Leaders FellowshipsWho should apply? UK Cochrane Groups who would like to host a fellow at up to 80% FEC for Academic InstitutionsCountry funding open…October 20 2020
A round-up of Cochrane community news from contributors, colleagues, and partners - updated through the month. For community events, please see our 'events round-up'. October 2020 New Cochrane CARG and EC Managing Editor New Co-ordinating PaPaS Editor: Dr Neil O'Connell Professor Christopher Eccleston has stepped down as PaPaS Co-ordinating…October 19 2020
Cochrane is in the final year of its multi-year strategic plan, Strategy to 2020. Strategy to 2020 has set in motion transformational change in the way Cochrane works at all levels of the organization with the aim of giving us the best chance to achieve our mission. Goal 4 of Strategy to 2020 challenged us to be a diverse, inclusive, and…October 15 2020
Cochrane is pleased to announce that our revised Conflict of Interest Policy for Cochrane Library Content has taken effect as of today, October 14, 2020. The revised Policy now applies to all reviews registered from today and to any updates where work began after today. A Conflict of Interest portal has been set up at http://conflictofinterest.…October 14 2020
Cochrane Rehabilitation, one of 13 Cochrane Fields, has recently published details of its communication strategy in an article in the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Dedicated to knowledge translation related to rehabilitation evidence and evidence-based rehabilitation practice, Cochrane Rehabilitation has organized five…October 13 2020
The efficient retrieval of evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is core to Cochrane's work. Cochrane developed its own search filters to identify reports of RCTs in 1994 (updated most recently in 2008). These search filters, published in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, are widely used across Cochrane and…October 8 2020
Karen Head is writing on behalf of Cochrane’s Knowledge Translation Evaluation Working Group. The working group is made up of people across Review Groups, Fields, Geographic Groups and the Central Executive Team. In 2020 the working group has been finding out how to support Cochrane Groups that want to evaluate their knowledge translation work.…October 7 2020
In order to be relevant to the needs of users, Cochrane evidence needs to respond to national, regional, and global health priorities. This page provides a round-up of current priority setting activities submitted by Cochrane Groups - updated throughout the month. See the 'Priority Setting' pages of Cochrane Training for additional information on…October 5 2020
In this blog, Cochrane UK’s Knowledge Brokers, Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig, introduce new guidance for anyone who needs to choose images for a dissemination product based on any Cochrane Review, which may also be helpful for others interested in image selection, and reflect on what they’ve learned along the way. In this blog, we highlight a…October 5 2020
The abstracts that were originally submitted for presentation at the Cochrane Colloquium that was planned to take place in Toronto, Canada, on 4-7 October 2020 are now available in a special Supplement to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. In May 2020, as a result of the continuing spread and impact of COVID-19, Cochrane’s Governing…October 1 2020
Cochrane is in the final year of its multi-year strategic plan, Strategy to 2020. Strategy to 2020 has set in motion transformational change in the way Cochrane works at all levels of the organization with the aim of giving us the best chance to achieve our mission. Goal 3 of Strategy to 2020 challenged us to make Cochrane the ‘home of evidence…October 1 2020
A round-up of active surveys submitted by Cochrane contributors, colleagues, and partners seeking input from the Cochrane Community - updated through the month Title: Use of automation tools in systematic reviews, health technology assessments & guideline development – a surveyGeneral information: We are seeking information on how…October 1 2020
Learn about Knowledge Translation in Cochrane with the launch of the KT online learning module! Blog author Karen Head is the Cochrane Knowledge Translation Project Manager and a Cochrane author. She works to support KT projects and help share learnings about knowledge translation across Cochrane. As someone who is more used to conducting meta-…September 28 2020
Cochrane is in the final year of its multi-year strategic plan, Strategy to 2020. Strategy to 2020 has set in motion transformational change in the way Cochrane works at all levels of the organization with the aim of giving us the best chance to achieve our mission. Goal 2 of Strategy to 2020 challenged us to make Cochrane evidence accessible…September 21 2020
Cochrane is pleased to announce that we have appointed a new Conflict of Interest Panel. This independent panel will work with Cochrane’s Research Integrity Team to arbitrate on potential breaches of the Cochrane Conflict of Interest Policy for Cochrane Library Content and provide general guidance on how the policy should be applied. The new…September 21 2020
Cochrane is in the final year of its multi-year strategic plan, Strategy to 2020. Strategy to 2020 has set in motion transformational change in the way Cochrane works at all levels of the organization with the aim of giving us the best chance to achieve our mission. Goal 1 of Strategy to 2020 gets to the heart of Cochrane’s work: To produce high…September 10 2020
The Author Representatives on the Cochrane Council invite you to join the new Cochrane Author Panel. Authors of Cochrane Reviews or Protocols can join and will have the opportunity to input into the organisation’s strategic decision-making, through the Author Representatives. Members of the Author Panel will input on relevant decisions to be made…September 7 2020
Would you like guidance on your Cochrane knowledge translation (KT) project or activity? Are you keen to share your KT experience and learnings with others? We are pleased to announce that the Cochrane KT mentoring Scheme is now open for new mentors and mentees until 30th September 2020. The mentoring scheme aims to connect people who are…September 1 2020