Advanced Document Search

You can use Advanced Search to search for all types of documents stored in Archie; both the Cochrane specific documents such as entity modules, protocols and reviews; and also files.  

You can search for documents using the following search fields:

• Common fields – searches the following record fields: Title and Text

• Text - the entire text of e.g., a module

• Title

• Document Type

• Entity

- Miscellaneous -

• Publication status

• Notes - searches title and text of Notes

• Created

• Modified

• Is Checked Out

• Person - identifies all documents for which the chosen person has any document role

• Country of Document Role - identifies all documents for which the chosen document role is assigned to a person from the chosen country

• Reference Centre of Document Role - identifies all documents for which the chosen document role is assigned to a person with the chosen  reference centre

The following fields only apply to documents of the Cochrane Review type:

- Review Info -

• Contact Person

• Review Stage

• Review Status

• Review Phase

• Review Type

• Review No

• RevMan ID

• Review DOI (CD number)

• Next Stage Expected

• Assessed as Up-to-date

• Date of Search

• Last Edited in RevMan

- First Published -

• Protocol First Published

• Review First Published

- Stage Reached -

• Title Added

• Title Registered

• Protocol Stage Reached

• Review Stage Reached

- Last Published Version -

•  Version Stage

• Version Status

• Version is New

• Version is Amended - identifies reviews with an Amended event but not also an Updated, Concussions Changed or Stable event. - A search for Amended will return both active and withdrawn reviews (unless you also specify Last Published Version Status = Active)

• Version is Updated

• Version has Conclusions Changed

• Version is Stable

• Version has Feedback

• Version has New Citation -   does not include new protocols or reviews (which have an implicit new citation); only those with a New Citation event. There is a separate search term for New.

• Version First Published - identifies reviews of last published version which were first published in the latest issue.

- Relative to Selection -

• Review with Contact Person - search for reviews based on person selection set.

• Review with Author - search for reviews based on person selection set.

When you search for documents using the search fields Common fields, Title, Text, Notes, RevMan ID, Review DOI (CD number) or Review No, enter a free-text search term into the far right box.

• Tip: Contains and Begins with are useful if you are unsure how to spell a search term.

When you search on Entity, Publication Status, Document type, Review Stage, Review Status, Review Phase, Review Type,  Protocol First Published, Next Stage Expected,  Last Published Version Stage or Last Published Version Status, you choose your search term from a pull-down list in the far right box, and choose Is or Is not in the middle box.

Searching on the search fields Country of Document Role or Reference Center of Document Role.

Searching on the search field Person identifies all documents in relation to which the specified person has any sort of document role (e.g., Editor, Contact author, Co-author) . Searching on the search Contact Person identifies all documents to which the specified person has a contact person role.   

Advanced Document search on the date fields.

• Tip: The difference between Before and Not after, and between After and Not before, is whether the date itself is included. For example, searching on records created After 1 January 2000 will only find records from 2 January onwards.

Finally, when you search on the field  Last Published Version is New, Last Published Version is Amended, Last Published Version is Updated, Last Published Version  has Conclusions Changed, Last Published Version is Stable or Is Checked Out, you simply choose Yes or No from a pull-down list.