Ottawa_training_for_CRGs.htm

Times

* A9: 5 October, 13.30-17.00 - "Register at the Colloquium site":http://www.colloquium.info/Default.aspx?PageID=256&&pid=218&ItemID=281 * A10: 5 October, 13.30-17.00 - "Register at the Colloquium site":http://www.colloquium.info/Default.aspx?PageID=256&&pid=218&ItemID=282 * A11: 6 October, 13.30-17.00 - "Register at the Colloquium site":http://www.colloquium.info/Default.aspx?PageID=256&&pid=218&ItemID=283

Facilitators

IMS team (contact: Monica Kjeldstrøm)

Objectives

The purpose of this workshop is to provide the key users of the new Cochrane Information Management System (IMS) with a core set of knowledge and skills to enable them to use the system successfully. The workshop will be a continuation of the IMS training days helds at regional meetings earlier in 2004 and 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 reviews, including assigning access right to reviews, review versioning, comparing reviews, and more * Editorial workflows * Working with topics lists * Working with modules * Publishing in the Cochrane Library and elsewhere The plans for system roll-out will also be presented.

Description

In the beginning of 2005 the new IMS will gradually be rolled out to editorial bases of Collaborative Review Group (CRGs). The new IMS is an internet-based system that among other things will support CRGs in preparing, maintaining and publishing Cochrane reviews. It will replace ModMan and integrate the Cochrane Contact Database. It will support the editorial workflow and help with the tracking of reviews. At the same time as switching over to the new IMS, editorial bases will also be switching over to RevMan 4.3, which will have an communication module to enable checking reviews in/out of a central server. A large proportion of Review Group Co-ordinators (RGCs), Trial Search Co-ordinators (TSCs) of editorial bases have already been introduced to the new IMS at one of the IMS training days in March, May or June earlier this year. This workshop is a continuation of the previous training. Because the number of places is limited to 30 participants per workshop (90 in total), please note that priority will be given to Review Group Co-ordinators. The final programme, including the practical exercises, will be developed in close collaboration with the IMS support team, members of which who will also be present during the workshop. 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).