Dear all,

We are delighted to announce that the work of Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane’s new citizen science platform, is going open access.

We, as a community, have already identified thousands of reports of randomized controlled trials eligible for Cochrane’s Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), helping Cochrane Review authors around the world to find the evidence they need for their reviews.

As part of Cochrane’s commitment to improving the knowledge base and being transparent about the data going in to systematic reviews, the plan now is to make the crowd’s data about trial identification available and accessible to everyone. The open access data will be stored in a data repository, accessible via Cochrane Crowd and regularly updated.

We hope to implement this new and exciting phase of Cochrane Crowd by August 2016.

As always, I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for helping make this possible.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.

With best wishes,

Anna

on behalf of Cochrane Crowd and Project Transform