Europe PMC Team

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More than 300 Cochrane Systematic Reviews, funded under the 2007  
and 2010 UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme
Grant  
programmes, are available on Europe PMC.

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This has been a collaborative project between Cochrane,  
Wiley, and the Europe PMC team, and has enabled us to make this subset
of  
full-text reviews available to access for free via [Europe
PMC](http://europepmc.org/) with the functionality that papers  
in Europe PMC enjoy.

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Cochrane Reviews are [systematic
reviews](http://www.cochrane.org/about-us/evidence-based-health-care) of
primary research in human health care and health policy, and are  
used internationally to inform [evidence-based health
care](http://www.cochrane.org/about-us/evidence-based-health-care)
policy and practice. Those  
included in Europe PMC investigate the effects of interventions for
prevention,  
treatment and rehabilitation, or studies assessing diagnostic test
accuracy.

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We look forward to adding further reviews in the future as  
they become available.

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To find Cochrane Reviews on Europe PMC you may use the  
search term:  
[*(JOURNAL:"Cochrane Database Syst Rev") AND
(EPMC_AUTH_MAN:y)*](http://europepmc.org/search?query=%28JOURNAL%3A%22Cochrane%20Database%20Syst%20Rev%22%29%20AND%20%28EPMC_AUTH_MAN%3Ay%29)***  
***or use journals search box in the [Advanced
Search](http://europepmc.org/advancesearch) facility.

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This post is by Rob Rowbotham, Europe PMC Helpdesk Manager.

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Stay in touch with what's happening at Europe PMC by  
following us on
Twitter: [@EuropePMC_News](https://twitter.com/EuropePMC_news)

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More than 300 Cochrane Systematic Reviews, funded under the 2007 and 2010 UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme Grant programmes, are available on Europe PMC. This has been a collaborative project between Cochrane, Wiley, and the Europe PMC team, and has enabled us to make this subset of full-text reviews available to access for free via Europe PMC with the functionality that papers in Europe PMC enjoy.

Health care and health policy reviews now available: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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A core strategy of the development of UKPMC has been to help users
access, (through a single search interface), a range of relevant
information, in addition to peer-reviewed journal articles, that could
prove useful in their research.  Since the launch of the new service in
June 2010, we have provided links to an increasing number of PhD theses
and clinical guidelines, as well as a range of research reports.

The latest enhancement is the inclusion of links to
[databases](http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CMS2Web/) maintained by the Centre
for Reviews and Dissemination ([CRD](http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/)),
part of the National Institute for Health Research
[(NIHR](http://www.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx)).

The CRD provides research-based information about the effects of health
and social care interventions via its databases and undertakes
systematic reviews evaluating the research evidence on health and public
health questions of national and international importance.

The CRD databases, updated daily, provide access to:

• Over 9,000 quality assessed systematic reviews

• Over 11,000 economic evaluations

• Over 10,000 summaries of completed and ongoing health technology
assessments

• Summaries of all Cochrane reviews and protocols

• Summaries of Campbell reviews

Links are now provided from articles in UKPMC to the corresponding
record in a CRD database.  The example
[here](http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/19168529) provides a link from
the UKPMC abstract through to the corresponding  record in the DARE 
(Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) database where the reader
is informed that "*apart from a relatively limited search, this was
well-conducted and clearly-reported review, and the authors' conclusions
are likely to be reliable*."

Currently, there are 11,658 links from UKPMC articles to DARE abstracts
and 9,218 links from UKPMC articles to NHS EED (Economic Evaluation
Database) abstracts.
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A core strategy of the development of UKPMC has been to help users access, (through a single search interface), a range of relevant information, in addition to peer-reviewed journal articles, that could prove useful in their research.  Since the launch of the new service in June 2010, we have provided links to an increasing number of PhD theses and clinical guidelines, as well as a range of research reports.

Messages de Rogue Scholar

Health care and health policy reviews now available: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

UKPMC — now with links to records held in the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) databases