Ottawa_IMS_training_for_non-CRGs.htm

Times

* A7: 2 October, 9.00-10.30 - "Register at the Colloquium site":http://www.colloquium.info/?PageID=256&pid=218&ItemID=279 * A8: 2 October, 11.00-12.30 - "Register at the Colloquium site":http://www.colloquium.info/?PageID=256&&pid=218&ItemID=280

Facilitators

IMS team (contact: Monica Kjeldstrøm)

Objectives

The purpose of this workshop is to provide administrative staff at centres, the Consumer Network, fields and methods group with a core set of knowledge and skills to enable them to use the new Cochrane Information Management System (IMS) successfully. The workshop will be a combination of brief presentations, exercises and discussion of practical issues, including but not limited to: * Managing contact details and assigning roles * Working with modules * Document versioning * * Publishing in the Cochrane Library and elsewhere * Review groups’ use of the new IMS * Supporting authors in their use of RevMan 4.3 Plans for rolling out the system Collaboration-wide will be presented.

Description

Each entity in the Cochrane Collaboration is maintaining a module in the Cochrane Contact Database, which each quarter is published in the Cochrane Library. As well as updating their module at least once very year, Cochrane entities are expected to contribute to maintaining the contact details in the Cochrane Contact Database. In the autumn of 2004, when the Cochrane Contact Database will be integrated with the new IMS, administrative staff of Cochrane entities will need to use the new system. This workshop will provide training in the use of the relevant functions. Centres are also responsible for providing support and training to authors of Cochrane reviews, therefore the workshop will also provide a quick overview of how authors can work with the new IMS If there are particular issues that you would like to see addressed during the workshop, please send a mail to Monica Kjeldstrøm ("m.kjeldstrom@cochrane.dk":mailto:m.kjeldstrom@cochrane.dk)