Support
UJ librarians are happy to assist in your systematic review process! For systematic review tips, see our Systematic Review Guide or contact us at reference@uj.edu for individual support. For Covidence-specific questions, explore the resources below or contact the Covidence Community Management Team.

What is Covidence?  
Covidence stands for "Collaboration + Evidence"; it is an online platform supporting evidence synthesis projects like systematic and scoping reviews. Covidence streamlines parts of the systematic review process, making it easy to: 

• screen references (both title/abstract and full-text) 

• create and populate data extraction forms 

• complete your risk of bias tables 

• divide up the work among your team of reviewers 

• track the progress of the project 

What can Covidence do? 
Covidence supports teams with collaboration and the following parts of evidence synthesis. Follow the links to learn more about how to accomplish each step in Covidence: 

• Title/Abstract screening 

  • Import references

  • Screen title and abstract

  • Invite additional reviewers

• Full text review 

  • Bulk PDF import

  • Screen full text

• Quality assessment 

  • Customize risk of bias

• Data extraction 

  • Create forms

  • Conduct data extraction

  • RevMan from Cochrane

• Export data

Getting Started with Covidence 
Setting up your Covidence account:

Questions about accessing Covidence? Contact us at reference@uj.edu. 

Guides to getting started: 

• Getting Started with Covidence

• Invite Reviewers

Creating a review using the UJ license:
After clicking the “Create new review” link, you will have the option to use your personal account license or select the UJ account. Reviews created under the institutional license will be visible to the administrators of the UJ Covidence account. Your personal account review(s) will only be seen by you.

Your individual and UJ reviews will appear in separate sections on your account homepage.

Helpful Resources 

• Monthly Training Webinars

• Covidence 101 Webinars

• Covidence Academy: “How to” guides, step-by-step videos on Covidence features, and additional resources by Covidence. 

• Covidence Help Guides

• A practical guide to Data Extraction for Intervention Systematic Reviews: Guide to performing data extraction of intervention studies in Covidence. Some of the information can be generalized to other systematic/scoping review subject.