Key projects and milestones

Cochrane’s change programme is made up of the following 11 major projects:

Thematic Groups

Establish Thematic Groups that prioritise, develop, and disseminate high-quality Cochrane evidence, and retain and attract Cochrane volunteers.

Evidence Synthesis Units

Establish Evidence Synthesis Units focused on delivering timely evidence syntheses that address stakeholder needs.

Central Editorial Service

Expand Cochrane's Central Editorial Service to handle the editorial process for all evidence syntheses, including a direct pathway and a fast-track service.

Review Development Pipeline

Aims: Secure submissions to a Centralised Editorial Service; reduce time to publication; and generate content that aligns with external stakeholder priorities.

Central Study Identification Service

Aim: Offer a customizable suite of dependable, high-quality search and screening services for all Cochrane reviews that will streamline study identification tasks and help eliminate development bottlenecks.

Prospective Author Journey

Aim: Enable authors wishing to work with Cochrane to submit proposals for new or updated reviews to our central Editorial Manager site and get the go-ahead to start work.

New Review Format

Aim: Implement a new shorter review format for Cochrane evidence syntheses in 2024.

Implementing RevMan Web

Aim: Cochrane has now fully upgraded to RevMan Web. This has been done to improve and simplify the author experience while ensuring that the people using Cochrane evidence are getting simple and accessible information.

Optimise production workflows

Aim: implement and monitor improvements to our production (copy editing and publishing) processes; to support the timely publication of evidence on the Cochrane Library.

Revise Editorial Policies

Aim: Review and revise key editorial policies to support the new model for producing Cochrane evidence syntheses (for example Rejection and Updating Policies).

Review Portfolio Management

Aim: review Cochrane portfolio management to improve how we handle our reviews and streamline our processes.