The default access level for papers submitted to the Board.

These papers are published on the Cochrane Community website as part of an open access ‘agenda pack’ and are available to anyone.

Cochrane's Trustees' Reports & Financial Statements are open access and made available on cochrane.org, here.

For papers that include information about individuals, or strategic and business plans that are not in the Charity’s best interests to make publicly available.

Full versions of these papers are only made available to the Trustees, and other meeting participants at the Co-Chairs’ discretion, in advance of a meeting. If only certain sections of a paper need to be kept restricted, an open access version will be published with the restricted access content redacted.

Following consideration of the full paper, the Board may choose to keep it permanently restricted where the information remains private or sensitive, or publish it when sensitive information is time-limited.

    
For papers that contain private or sensitive information at the time of submission to the Board that the authors feel should only be shared with the Trustees.

These papers are made available only to the Board.