The Cochrane Web Team offers content to help you bring Cochrane branding into your entity's website and to minimise the work you must do to maintain up-to-date content:

1. Entity Website Builder (EWB)! .
   This system allows you to create a website quickly and easily, using a browser-based editor inside 'Archie', the CC's Information Management System. In addition to material you provide, you can also choose to include content from Cochrane.org, your entity module, and your Cochrane reviews. It all is presented in a professionally-designed Cochrane template/scheme of your choice, and it is maintained and hosted by the Collaboration's own Web Team. You control the content, versioning, and editorial access by others in your entity, all through Archie, from any computer, anywhere.

   • Get started, read these instructions.
     Read the FAQs here.
     Monthly EWB Tips Archive here.
     Read the Citeria for access to the Entity Website Builder.

2. Snippets! - Single lines of HTML code that will automatically bring up-to-date and consistent content to the entity web site that you already have. Just copy-and-paste.

Learn more on the Web Editors's page, about:

• Managing your entity newsfeeds and contributing news to cochrane.org
• Using Macromedia Contribute for cochrane.org and your entity websites
• Web style guide - guidelines for all editors of Cochrane online materials
• Your entity not in Archie? For more information about accessing and using Archie, please read the criteria for inclusion in Archie. This information is also available in Section 1.4.6 of The Cochrane Manual.

We also encourage you to join the Entity Webmasters email list, where we'll make announcements each time we add new features or content to the EWB, or any other services which we think may be useful to you. To subscribe, visit: http://lists.cochrane.org/mailman/listinfo/entitywebmasters

 

Criteria for access to the Entity Website Builder

The Cochrane Collaboration Secretariat (secretariat@cochrane.org) is responsible for dealing with requests for access to the Entity Website Builder (EWB) template, and for considering exceptions that do not meet the criteria below. Requests from 'Possible' entities should be put forward by the Director of the relevant reference Cochrane Centre, in accordance with established practice. This does not apply to the Steering Group’s advisory and working groups, which should be given access to the EWB template on request.

1. All Cochrane entities officially registered with The Cochrane Collaboration should be given access to the Entity Website Builder.

2. Collaboration-wide working groups reporting to the Steering Group (such as the CENTRAL Vision Group, the Umbrella Reviews Working Group, the Updating Working Group, etc.) should have access to the Entity Website Builder if they request it.

3. 'Possible' Cochrane entities (i.e. groups of people who have held an exploratory meeting attended by a member of the Monitoring and Registration Group) should have access to the Entity Website Builder if they request it, so that they can prepare a website for use post-registration. The template for their site would contain a disclaimer stating that the site is 'in preparation' and that the group is not yet officially registered with The Cochrane Collaboration. The 'Possible entity should not be given its final site address until after it has achieved official registration with The Cochrane Collaboration via the Monitoring and Registration Group.

4. Any group of people not officially registered with The Cochrane Collaboration should not have access to the Entity Website Builder, as the Cochrane logo is an integral feature of this software, and people would be misled into thinking that the group is officially part of The Cochrane Collaboration.

5. The Cochrane Collaboration Secretariat (secretariat@cochrane.org) is responsible for considering exceptions that do not meet the above criteria, put forward by the Director of the relevant reference Cochrane Centre.

This information is also available in Section 1.4.6 of The Cochrane Manual.

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