What’s happening with the Organizational Policy Manual?
Following the launch of the new Cochrane Community site in early 2016, we have been working to complete the integration of content from the old Community site and other legacy sites to make all relevant information easily accessible in one location. As part of this process, we have undertaken an extensive review and revision of the Organizational Policy Manual (OPM), which for many years had served as a repository for a variety of organizational information.
During the OPM review, we determined that a significant amount of the content was obsolete, redundant, or relevant to operational information available elsewhere on Cochrane.org, Community, or Group sites. As a result, we have relocated, re-directed, and turned off relevant content formerly housed in Sections 1 & 2 and Appendices of the OPM. Information relevant to Cochrane policies is now housed in the following locations:
- Editorial policies are available in the Editorial and Publishing Policy Resource (EPPR) on the Community website.
- Organizational policy information relevant to the wider organization and the general public is available in the ‘About us’ section on Cochrane.org.
- Organizational policy information relevant to the core Cochrane community is available in the ‘Organizational info’ section here on the Community site.
With current policy information available in one of these sections, most of the old OPM is now offline. The only section still located on the old website is operational information related to Review Groups and Methods Groups, which will eventually be updated and migrated to the new site as part of the Structure & Function project.
If you have any questions about this project, or feedback about missing, misdirected, or non-functional hyperlinks or content, please contact Nancy Owens.