Why Cochrane should prioritise sharing data

Why Cochrane should prioritise sharing data Open sharing is vital for collaboration, innovation, and reproducibility: Cochrane could show leadership.Packer 1 discusses that the one who submits a research for public good should be ready to receive a request for data sharing for examination and re-analysis and tax payers assume that a national agency is checking such data and analysis.Here we discuss Cochrane's practice on data sharing.Open science, as endorsed by the G7, 2 includes sharing data, computer code and materials.It is essential for reproducibility, collaboration, and innovation.We support the work of Cochrane, but are concerned Cochrane is not sharing all its reviews' data.These data should be fully accessible for re-use by third parties.Cochrane, a non-profit private company 3 and registered charity, produces and maintains systematic reviews in health and social care.Its work is undertaken by a global network of thousands of people, 4 and its support largely comes from public funding.5 Most people producing Cochrane reviews are volunteers, not specifically funded for this work 6 7 and Cochrane encourages 'crowdsourcing' of work.[8][9][10] Cochrane Editorial bases help volunteers obtain study reports and manually extract the wealth of data needed to generate systematic reviews.[11][12][13] Cochrane teams use RevMan software 14 to produce files in standard format (XML), storing information on the studies, their methods and results for publication in the Cochrane Library.