Talk:Cochrane Collaboration

Rationale for the article

There is one thing possibly wrong with this entry, The Cochrane Collaboration is a portal to subscription only databases. The abstracts can be viewed for free and there is a feedback process for the reviews available to the public. However, it is not unlike PubMed wherein most references are available in full by subscription or pay-per-article. While we assiduously try to avoid promoting commercial efforts, the bottom line is that most research is in some ways only available for a price, though often through nonprofit sources. It is also true that the Cochrane Library Databases have become one of the largest of the highest quality databases for research in medicine. With these factors in mind, it is simply not possible to pretend it is not there but to present this effort as objectively as possible. Thomas Simmons 04:10 9 April, 2007 (EPT)