Cochrane Collaboration > colloquia > abstracts > dublin 2006 Information Management System (IMS) for Trials Search Co-ordinators (TSCs) in Cochrane Review Groups

Information Management System Team,Nordic Cochrane Centre,Rigshospitalet,Copenhagen,Denmark.

Objectives: To provide training for Trials Search Co-ordinators in how to use and benefit from The Cochrane Collaboration's Information Management System (IMS) in their daily work. Summary: The IMS training session for TSCs will centre around:

• working the module text: checking the module text out from and into Archie, and editing the search strategy section;
• working with the topics list: adding, editing and deleting topics; saving and printing the topics list; linking new review titles to the topics list;
• working with reviews: checking reviews out from and into Archie; checking and revising search strategies in the reviews.

Other topics may be covered as well if there is time. Level of knowledge required to attend: basic. The workshop will be for TSCs in Cochrane Review Groups only.

Dublin 2006 -- W37