IMS bulletins for CRGs

1. Warning: Archie registration message
2. CRG conversions
3. Updated Conversion Checklist
4. Reminder: marking RevMan 5 conversions for publication
5. Strategies for converting RevMan 4 reviews to RevMan 5
6. Withdrawing protocols and reviews
7. Permissions for the Entity Role Internal Referee
8. Questions of the week:
   (a) Should I complete the ‘Assessed as Up-to-date’ date for protocols?
   (b) Can anybody else arrange for the Archie registration message to be sent to authors or is it only the Super User of the author’s Primary Entity?

1. Report on Archie quarterly module submissions for The Cochrane Library 2008, Issue 3 (from Michelle Ames, Production Controller, John Wiley & Sons)
2. New features in the latest update to RevMan 5 (5.0.12): 6 June 2008
    (a) Specifying a Working Directory and a Backup Directory
    (b) Undo check-out from RevMan
3. Archie Privacy Policy
4. Reference management files and RevMan 5
5. Information about RevMan 5 and Archie for authors
6. Expiry of Archie registration message
7. Question of the week: How do I create a list of email addresses of all my authors?

1. Tips and checks for module submission on Wednesday, 14 May 2008
2. Reminders
3. Warning: republishing a review which has been superseded by a more recent draft version in Archie
4. Review Contact Details Wizard
5. Questions of the week:
   (a) Question: Have you any tips on how to ensure that I choose the correct What's new Events in RevMan 5 for protocols and reviews?
   (b) Question: Do I keep the 'Amended - Converted to new review format' What's New Event which is automatically generated when I convert a RevMan 4 file to RevMan 5?

1. Cochrane mailing lists
2. Converting reviews from RevMan 4 to RevMan 5 at editorial bases of CRGs
   (a) Reminder: read 'Converting reviews from RevMan 4 to RevMan 5 format at editorial bases of CRGs'
   (b) Details of payments to be made to CRGs for converting their own Group's reviews
   (c) Tips when converting reviews from RevMan 4 to RevMan 5 (d) Reminding and communicating with authors whose published RevMan 4 files must be converted this year
3. Publication View for RevMan 5 reviews in Archie
4. Questions of the week:
   (a) How is the Out-of-date report in Archie compiled?
   (b) Should the RevMan 5 date ‘Assessed as Up-to-date’ be later than the ‘Date of Search’?
   (c) When I attempt to check into Archie a RevMan 4 file  (in RevMan 4.3 XML format) from a review team for a review which I have already converted to RevMan 5 in Archie, I am told that the file format is incompatible. What do I do?

Report on Archie quarterly module submissions for The Cochrane Library 2008, Issue 2 (from Michelle Ames, Production Controller, John Wiley & Sons)

 Summary of results of RevMan 5 pilot

RevMan 5 rollout

Next Archie deployment

For your information: authors may confuse Archie with an Australian organisation known as ARCHI 

Checking RevMan 4 reviews from authors into Archie after the rollout of RevMan 5

Additional information in check-in message when first checking a RevMan 5 review into Archie

Questions of the week:
(a) How do I change a person's Primary Entity?
(b) When creating a new Person record, what do I choose if the country does not appear in the drop-down list available in Archie?
(c) How can I view, edit or delete the Calendar events I created for dates that go beyond the number of weeks I can view in Archie?

1. Change to the way flags will be used to highlight updated reviews in Issue 2, 2008, of The Cochrane Library
2. Tips and checks for quarterly module submission: 0700 (UTC/GMT), Thursday, 21 February 2008
   (a) All CRGs
   (b) Non-RevMan 5 Pilot CRGs
   (c) RevMan 5 Pilot CRGs
3. Reminder: resolving duplicates
4. Question of the week: Should I ask authors to post their signed Licence for Publication form as well as fax it to me?

• Plain Language Summaries: preparing for the release of RevMan 5
• Authors' contact details: reminder
• Materials from the RevMan 5 Conversion Workshop for UK RGCs
• Contact details for a Contact person of a published review: summary of fields not published  
• Use Ctrl-P to print graphs from Archie
• Question of the week:  How do I allow our CRG's statistician to read reviews in Archie?

• Latest Archie deployment (v.2.0): 10 December 2007
• Checking the status of Archie
• Start of RevMan 5 pilot
• Reminders:
• (a) Training for authors in RevMan 5
• (b) Archie user accounts for authors
• UK IMS workshop for Editors will be held in York in March 2008
• Registering titles in Archie
• IMS support during the holiday period
• Question of the week:
• (a) For All
  Question: A member of our CRG editorial staff is no longer working with us. As a member of staff he had an Archie user account. He still has an Archie record because he is on our CRG's mailing list and is also a member of a non-CRG entity. Is it still appropriate for him to have an Archie user account?
• (b) For RevMan 5 pilot CRGs
  Question: Can I print the full review, including forest plots, from within RevMan 5?

• Update on role of IMS Support
• Dates for diary: workshops for CRG editorial staff
• Authors' contact details: in preparation for the release of RevMan 5
• Reminder: Out-of-date Reviews report
• Checklist for authors whensubmitting draft protocols and reviews for editorial consideration
• Warning: RevMan and Vista
• Advance notification: next Archie deployment
• Question of the week: why is a former RGC and Super User of our Group still receiving email messages about registered and deregistered titles when she no longer has the Entity Roles Super User or RGC with our Group?

• Contact details
• IMS Clinic at the Brazilian Colloquium
• Distribution of IMS Bulletins
• RevMan 5 Pilot Strategy
• Question of the week: Is it still compulsory to complete the Next Stage Expected in Archie for Protocols? I notice that it is no longer published in The Cochrane Library.

• Change to date and location of 'Introduction to new Cochrane Handbook Methods and RevMan 5' workshop for Australian authors
• Archie registrations
• RevMan 5 rollout and implementation strategy: updated version
• RevMan 5 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Question of the week: Can I delete Inactive protocols?

• Report on Archie quarterly submission for The Cochrane Library 2007, Issue 4
• RevMan 5 rollout and implementation strategy
• RevMan 5 beta testing now underway
• Reminder: marking duplicates
• IMS-related workshops
• Question of the week: I have assigned the Wiley Copy Editor the Copy Editor Document Role for the review I would like her to copy edit. Do I delete the Document Role after she has checked-in her copy-edited RevMan file to Archie?

• Reminders

  • (a) Tips and checks for quarterly submission on Wednesday, 22 August 2007
  • (b) Republishing the module text
  • (c) Cut-off for submission
• Module text: warning
• Questions of the week
• (a) If I enter the reference for a published protocol as it is cited in The Cochrane Library (i.e. add '(Protocol)') after the full stop after the title), RevMan validation check reports a Warning. What should I do?
• (b) We are using Copy Edit Support. Do I give the Wiley copy editor an Entity Role with our Group?
• (c) I want to delete a review that has been superceded by a new review following a new protocol. How do I do this?

• Next Archie deployment: 8 August 2007
• RevMan 5 beta
• RevMan 5 rollout and implementation strategy and FAQ
• Reminders
• (a) Relationship between Document roles and Entity roles in Archie
• (b) Person Report
• Message from Dave Booker, Web Development Manager
• Question of the week: How can I use Archie to help me identify our CRG's out-of-date reviews?

• CRG Satellites
• Editor's User Guide + Quick Start for Editors
• Reminder: resolving duplicates

• Reminder: Person Report
• Module text editor
• Removal of Entity roles not relevant to CRGs
• Question of the week: I have two email addresses: one that I use for everything relating to my role as an author, which should therefore be published in The Cochrane Library, and another that relates to my job as a member of the CRG editorial staff. How do I manage this in Archie?

• Tip: Searching archived IMS Bulletins for information
• Centralised copy editing in Archie
• Report on Archie module submission for Issue 3, 2007
• Authors who are testing RevMan 5
• Questions of the week

• (a) We had previously withdrawn a review because it was out-of-date. It has now been updated by two new reviews, both of which are ready to be released for publication. How can we remove the withdrawn review from publication and indicate that the new reviews have updated it?

• (b) We have a duplicate registered title in Archie. If we delete the duplicate title, this will trigger a deregister message, which would be misleading. How should we delete the duplicate record in Archie?

• Reminders
• (a) Tips and checks for module submission on 23 May 2007
• (b) Republishing the module text
• (c) RevMan 4.3
• Preparing PDF files of reviews and publication forms
• Question of the week: I remember being told that we should include the Art. No. and the DOI information when citing Cochrane reviews. Where can I find instructions on where and how to enter this information?

• Proposal that all RGCs become RevMan 5 beta testers
• Preliminary call for volunteers to pilot Archie workflows
• Question of the week:
• (a) I want to send one PDF file of a review, which includes all the graphs, to referees. How do I do this in Archie?
• (b) Can I delete versions of reviews from the History of the review or must I keep them all?

• Editor's Guide to Working with Reviews in the Information Management System (IMS)
• Reminder: Person Report
• RGCs as RevMan 5 beta testers
• Question of the week: Why can't my Editor check out a review from Archie even though she has a Document role for the review?

• Latest Archie deployment: 28 February 2007
• Report on Archie module submissions for Issue 2, 2007
• IMS training events in 2007
• RevMan 5
• Training server
• Questions of the week:
  (a) If I delete a protocol from Archie, does this trigger a 'Newtitles message' to inform subscribers that the title has been deregistered?
  (b) Why, just after the module deadline, are some reviews marked with a half blue circle whereas others are marked with a full blue circle

• Latest Archie deployment
• Warning: avoid using the 'Cancel' option for 'Check Out (XML format)'
• Reminders
  • (a) Tips and checks for module submission on Wednesday, 21 February 2007
  • (b) Resolve duplicates
  • (c) Referencing the current publication for a substantively updated review
• Question of the week: I have changed the status of a review to Withdrawn. Do I have to republish the review?

• Summary of actions that do and do not trigger 'Newtitles' messages when working with Registered and Vacant Titles in Archie
• Question of the week: All the reviews for which we have entered comments via the RevMan system have retained their commented flag ever since. When and how are these flags removed?

• In preparation for future Steering Group elections: resolving duplicates and identifying 'inactive' people
• Latest Archie deployment: 18 December 2006
• Question of the week: When I change the Stage of a review from Vacant Title to Registered Title, does Archie still check for overlap with other review titles?

• Information on transitions for Cochrane protocols and reviews in The Cochrane Library
• Resolving duplicates: reminder
• Update on RevMan 5
• Question of the week: We have a published review that has been relinquished by the contact author, who wants his name to be removed as the Contact author when the review is next published in The Cochrane Library. We don't want to withdraw the review from publication because it is up-to-date. What should I do?

• (a) Resolving duplicates
• (b) Removal of CRG Entity role 'Member'