Why join the Imperial College Library Services’ license for Covidence?

Covidence is a web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic 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.

The interface is intuitive and suitable for students and experienced reviewers. Covidence can save time on repetitive review tasks, enabling faster review production and more time for analysis and interpretation by:

  • Import references - Covidence works seamlessly with reference management software such as EndNote, or any tool that supports RIS or other file formats. Covidence can automatically remove duplicates for you.
  • Screen title & abstract - Breeze through screening with keyword highlighting & a lightning-quick interface. Covidence keeps full records of who voted and supports single or dual screeners.
  • Bulk PDF import - Transfer PDFs stored in your reference manager to Covidence in a few clicks.
  • Screen full text - Decide quickly on studies in full text. Capture reasons for exclusion and any notes so you can resolve any disagreements quickly, with a click of a button.
  • Create forms - Be in control and stay focused on your PICO question. Customizable extraction forms mean you only spend time extracting what you need.
  • Customize risk of bias - Automatically populate your risk of bias tables by highlighting and commenting on the text directly in your PDF.
  • Conduct data extraction - Extract data efficiently with a side-by-side view of your customized form and PDF. Then, when you are done, easily compare your form with other reviewers.  
  • Export - Covidence exports to all the common formats so you can continue your review in your preferred software. 
  • Collaborate - You can invite other reviewers (including external colleagues) to work with you on the project.


Imperial College’s institutional licence with Covidence gives you:
  • Unlimited references/citations for each review.
  • Unlimited number of reviewers for each review (you can add reviewers from outside college e.g. collaborate with NHS colleagues).
  • Unlimited number of reviews.

How to join Imperial College’s institutional licence:

To request access to Imperial College’s Covidence account, you must have an active Imperial College e-mail address.

  1. Go to - Request your invitation page.
  2. Enter your college email address and click “Request Invitation”.
  3. Accept the invitation via your e-mail. 

  

Starting a review under the unlimited institutional-wide licence:

  1. Sign in to Covidence 
  2. Select “Start a new review”
  3. Under 'Which account do you want to use?", ensure to select "Imperial College London"

Reviews created using the Imperial licence account will be visible to Covidence subscription administrators at the organisation. Reviews created using your user account are only visible to you.

Once you have created a review or accepted an invitation to another university account review, the title will appear in a separate section on your account homepage:

 

Support for Covidence and Systematic and Research Reviews

Our Medical Librarians support students andstaff and conducting literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and other types of research reviews.
For more guidance inplanning, conducting, reporting and publishing research reviews at Imperial College, see our Systematic Review Flowchart, or contact your Librarian to get 1:1 advice.

More information and useful links for literature searching and evidence synthesis can be found on our Medicine Subject Support page.

 

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 have a hands-on experience and understand the process better. 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.

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.