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I find this troubling, lack of transparency and wonder if volunteers knew. I was certainly not informed. Can any of you get into CDSR, we can't and we are Uk resident and Cochrane authors is the NICE Agreement still in place Best AMy Sent from my iPhone On May 2, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Jon Brassey <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hi All, I was happy to see Cochrane's EMBASE screening project<http://community-archive.cochrane.org/news/news-events/current-news/embase-screening-project-six-months-old-and-going-strong> as it was an innovative project and used the power of the 'crowd' to identify controlled trials in EMBASE. As the project was powered by volunteers I was curious to what extent Cochrane would share these efforts. When asked I got this reply: References to trial reports identified as part of the Embase Project are republished in CENTRAL under a licencing agreement between Wiley and Elsevier. As such, we are not permitted to share those records with any other parties. If you took part in identifying trials through this project were you aware your efforts were going to be restricted and used solely at the discretion of Cochrane? I ask as typically, in the world of crowdsourcing, the efforts are for the wider public good (eg Wikipedia). It now appears volunteers are helping boost the profits of private companies. Am I the only one disturbed by this precedent? Best wishes jon -- Jon Brassey Director, Trip Database<http://www.tripdatabase.com> Honorary Fellow at CEBM<http://www.cebm.net>, University of Oxford Creator, Rapid-Reviews.info<http://Rapid-Reviews.info>