Cochrane reviews , widely considered as ‘gold standard’ for systematic reviews and used in formulation of evidence based clinical guidelines and policy making has declared that it will follow the Open Access route. As a part of its committment to become open access by 2020 from early 2016 all Cochrane Protocols will become open access and Reviews automatically deposited in PubMed Central after one year embargo.
This is a positive step towards open access on part of the Cochrane. Cochrane Library is freely available in India has the Indian Council of Medical Research has been buying nation-wide licenses , but many poor nations continue still do not have access to the Cochrane Library.
More details here: http://community.cochrane.org/news/tags/authors/cochrane-steering-group-announces-main-decisions-meeting-vienna
