The bespoke content managment system allows staff to maintain their own profiles on the website – a step forward on what was a previously completely static site.

The new staff profile pages will be launched in the near future, along with a complete website redesign.

The UK Cochrane Centre has worked in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth to develop the Online Learning Resources for Undertaking a Systematic Review.  This project is partially funded by The Cochrane Collaboration Opportunities Fund and is intended to enhance learning opportunities for Cochrane Review Authors.  It is based around an online learning tool which incorporates the face-to-face training materials used by the UK Cochrane Centre and complements The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions.

ADL Consulting has taken responsibility for the online registration of new users.

Many organisations protect their intellectual property as a matter of routine. The alternative is to risk costly and damaging consequences. Unfair as it may seem, if you fail to register your design and someone else does you can be made to withdraw your product, or you may have to buy a license from its new owners; pay compensation or even in extreme cases be forced to cease trading.

ADL Consultings has developed this site from the ground up, with design work supplied by an outside source, and integrated by our staff.

Paul Rowley, knowledge transfer co-ordinator at the Centre for Renewable Energy at Loughborough University and co-founder of the energy advice website Greenenergy360.org, said that starting out green did not just make sense from an ethical point of view, it also made sense from a business point of view.

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