Strategy and structure

• The Cochrane Collaboration Strategic Plan
• Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Cochrane Collaboration
• Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group (CCSG) documents - procedures, minutes and reports of the CCSG, its advisory groups, and Annual General Meetings of The Cochrane Collaboration
• The structure, remit and membership of groups accountable to the Steering Group

Procedures

• The Cochrane Manual - the Collaboration's principal procedural resource
• Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions -
  the definitive 'how-to' guide with required procedures
• Registration of new Cochrane entities
• CRG Procedures Collection (password required - ask your entity administrator) - procedural resources for editorial bases, including checklists, forms, and examples from various CRGs. Provided by the Quality Advisory Group.

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Registration of new Cochrane entities

The following documents can be downloaded (they are in Rich Text Format (RTF) which allows them to be opened in most word processing software):

• regispro.doc - The registration process for new Cochrane entities
• centrlst.doc - Checklist for registering a new Centre
• crglist.doc - Checklist for registering a new Cochrane Review Group
• fieldlst.doc - Checklist for registering a new Field
• mglist.doc - Checklist for registering a new Methods Group

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