Covidence is a web-based tool that can simplify the processes of systematic and scoping reviews. It is designed to easily import citations ready for screening by multiple reviewers. The tool provides keyword highlighting and records the voting of screeners. Uploading PDFs is quick and easy and exclusion notes can be captured to resolve disagreements. Covidence includes customisable data extraction forms and automatically populates the Risk of Bias tables and Prisma Flow Chart.
New accounts
University of Melbourne staff and students can now access Covidence directly using their institutional login (SSO).
You’ll then have access to the University of Melbourne’s Covidence subscription — no separate registration or invitation is required.
Existing accounts
Covidence has recently moved to a new authentication system and access is now only available via Single Sign-On (SSO) using your institutional credentials.
If you previously logged in using your University email and password directly on covidence.org, please note that this method will no longer work.
To access Covidence, please use one of the following options:
Click “Start a new review”. Add a title and click "Create Review". Other team members can then be invited to the review in the settings area. You can also set up screening rules, exclusion reasons, study tags and inclusion/exclusion keywords.
Covidence offers short video tutorials in their Knowledge Base to help you get started. See Getting Started with Covidence and the Covidence Knowledge Basefor a full account of how to use all aspects of the product.
Click the question mark in the upper right-hand corner to access support.
