Public Health Scotland Library have scheduled 3 upcoming online training sessions to support its users - Register and join the sessions for free!

Covidence 101 (General Overview) - Tuesday 11th November, 12:00-13:00 (GMT) - Register here!

Extraction Overview in Covidence - Wednesday 19th November, 13:00-14:00 (GMT) - Register here!

Data Extraction 1 - Thursday 11th December, 14:00-15:00 (GMT) - Register here!

If you can't attend the live session, register anyway, and you will receive a recording 24 hrs after the session

Public Health Scotland (PHS) can offer its staff and researchers access to its organisational licence to Covidence.

Covidence is a web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic/scoping/rapid/literature/umbrella reviews. It supports reference/citation screening, full-text review, risk of bias assessment, extraction of study characteristics and outcomes, and the export of data and references.

Why use the PHS's access to Covidence?

• Unlimited references/citations for each review

• Unlimited number of reviewers for each review

• Full access to all the functions and features

How to launch a review in PHS's licence account:

1. Submit your request by emailing the following information to PHS Knowledge Services, at phs.knowledge@phs.scot:

• Name of review:

• Review Type (Systematic, Scoping, Rapid, Umbrella or Literature [other]):  

• Question type (Therapy, Prevention, Etiology, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Qualitative, Other):

2. Once approved by the administrator, an email invitation will be sent to you to join your review (you may need to check your spam folder): click 'Accept invitation'

3. Sign in to your existing Covidence account if you already have one with your university email OR sign up for a new account (make sure to use your university email address) 

Once you have successfully accepted the invitation to the review, you can invite your team members to work on the review.

The review will appear in a separate section on your account homepage:

Support from Covidence

Covidence offers a range of available resources and support to help you along the way with your systematic review process. 

To get familiar with how a Covidence workflow works, you can try our pre-set Demo review. This will allow you to gain hands-on experience and better understand the process. You will find it at the bottom of your dashboard once you have signed in. Give it a go and feel free to explore!

Getting started with Covidence - video tutorials that guide you through the initial area to get you started.

Covidence Knowledge Base - home to all of our comprehensive articles, instructions and advice to FAQs.

Covidence Academy - Learn and understand the essentials of systematic reviews and gain insight with expert-led training and content to guide you through every step of the review process.

Covidence eBook Collection - Download our step-by-step practical guides for Systematic Review Success!

Monthly Open Training Webinars - Join our Community Team for free webinars (registration required) or watch our recent recordings without delay.

Online Support Team- contact our team directly for support on your review by emailing support@covidence.org

When logged into your account, you can also easily contact the Support Team and the comprehensive articles from our Knowledge Base within Covidence by clicking the 'Need help?' button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.