Réseau francophone Cochrane

We are pleased to announce the official registration of the Réseau francophone Cochrane (RFC) as a Branch of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre. The primary goal of the Réseau is to better serve the needs of French-speaking authors and users of Cochrane reviews. 

There are approximately 200 million French-speaking people around the globe. It is important that French-speaking health care providers, consumers and decision makers are reached in their own language if they are to effectively use this information. We hope that this will also make it easier for French-speaking people to become involved in producing and advocating for Cochrane and Cochrane Systematic reviews. 

Dr Bernard Burnand and Myriam Rège Walther of the Health Care Evaluation Unit at the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland are leading the new Branch.  Current members include people from France, from Belgium, the Canadian Cochrane Centre and network sites from the Canadian province of Quebec. The Dutch, Italian and German Cochrane Centres have also supported the registration of this group. 

Visit to the Réseau now!
http://res_franco.cochrane.org/fr/about.html

Goals of the Réseau:

• To allow a wide diffusion of the information contained in The Cochrane Library to the French- speaking countries or regions.
• To increase the number of potential users of this information source for their professional practice of the French-speaking countries or regions.
• To involve a larger number of reviewers from French-speaking countries and regions
• To train, in French, Francophone people in the use of The Cochrane Library, particularly health care professionals and librarians in hospitals and academic centres.
• To develop new methodological approaches in systematic reviews and knowledge transfer
• To support francophone contributors involved in review groups and hand-search groups by giving training and information in French.
• To contribute to hand searching in specialised journals in order to find studies published in French.

If you have any questions or would like to become involved please contact: 

Myriam Rège Walther - Myriam.Rege@chuv.ch

Reference Centre

The Canadian Cochrane Centre is also pleased to provide support to the countries and territories of French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Pierre et Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna.

Links to French-language resources

Cochrane user guide (French version)
The Guide provides a detailed overview of The Cochrane Library and easy step-by-step guidance on: How to Register; Logging-on; Browse; Performing Basic, Advanced and MeSH Searches; Using Search History; Citation Export; Linking; Navigating Reviews; Odds Ratio Diagrams and more.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/homepages/106568753/UserGuideFrench.pdf

Co-published French-language products
The Réseau francophone Cochrane and the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre has a co-publication agreement with the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) whereby a selection of Cochrane Collaboration abstracts, reviews and plain language summaries will be chosen and translated for the Journal.

Coming soon

Other French-language products
Throughout the French-speaking world, there are numerous Cochrane reviews, abstracts and plain language summaries that are being translated into French. Let us know if you have any and we'll post the links here!

Coming soon