Editing Cochrane Library (section)

==Access and use==
The Cochrane Library is a subscription-based database, published initially by Update Software and now published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. as part of Wiley Online Library. In many countries, including parts of Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Scandinavian countries, New Zealand, Australia, India, South Africa, and Poland, it has been made available free to all residents by "national provision" (typically a government or Department of Health pays for the license). There are also arrangements for free access in much of Latin America and in "low-income countries", typically via [[HINARI]]. All countries have free access to two-page abstracts of all Cochrane Reviews and short plain-language summaries of selected articles.<ref>{{cite web |title=Access options for the Cochrane Library |url=http://www.cochranelibrary.com/help/access-options-for-cochrane-library.html |website=Cochrane Library |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |access-date=7 September 2015}}</ref>

Cochrane Reviews appear to be relatively underused in the United States for two reasons:
1) Public access to the Cochrane Library in the United States is limited (the state of [[Wyoming]] is an exception, having paid for a license to enable free access to Cochrane Reviews for all residents of Wyoming).<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Grimes DA, Hou MY, Lopez LM, Nanda K |title=Do clinical experts rely on the Cochrane library? |journal=Obstet Gynecol |volume=111 |issue=2 Pt 1 |pages=420–2 |date=February 2008 |pmid=18238981 |doi=10.1097/01.AOG.0000300558.51373.ae |s2cid=205384002 }}</ref>
2) The government-funded [[U.S. National Library of Medicine]] maintains an alternative database [[MEDLINE]], which is free of charge to everyone and has significantly more extensive coverage than Cochrane.

From 26 March to 26 May 2020, the Cochrane Library provided temporary unrestricted access to everyone in every country in response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cochrane.org/news/free-access-cochranes-covid-19-pandemic-resources-guaranteed |title=Free access to Cochrane's COVID-19 pandemic resources guaranteed |date=26 May 2020 |work=Cochrane |publisher=The Cochrane Collaboration |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref>