Legal Research

Canadian Cochrane Centre

By Simon Fodden

Something with only a tangential relation to law, but squarely in the middle of our interest in online resources and libraries:

As of today all Canadians can log into the Canadian Cochrane Centre, part of “The Cochrane Collaboration,” and free of charge read abstracts in plain language of studies in medicine and health care — or, as the welcome page puts it:

…the best available evidence on which health treatments work, which ones don?t, and which may cause harm.

I have to say I’ve never encountered the Cochrane Library before and am basically ignorant about how it’s funded and managed. It seems, in the Canadian manifestation at least, to be a non-profit venture with funding from public and private sources.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).