Welcome!
Erasmus MC is delighted to offer its researchers access to its unlimited institutional-wide licence to Covidence.
What is Covidence?
Covidence is a web-based software platform that streamlines the production of systematic reviews. It supports 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.
Discover more about Covidence on each link:
Import references - Covidence works seamlessly with your favourite reference managers like EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, Mendeley or any tool that support RIS, CSV or PubMed XML 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. Customisable extraction forms mean you only spend time extracting what you need.
Customise 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 customised 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.
Benefits to Erasmus MC access to Covidence?
Unlimited records for each review
Unlimited number of reviewers for each review
Unlimited number of reviews
How to join Erasmus MC institutional licence account
You can create your personal account sign-in information with Covidence before or after joining the institutional licence account. To request access, you must use your Erasmus MC domain email address (@erasmusmc.nl).
Go to this request your email invitation
Enter your information (using your @erasmusmc.nl email address) and click the "Request Invitation" link
An email invitation will be sent (may need to check your spam folder): click Accept Invitation
Sign in if you already have a personal account with the Erasmus email address or sign up for a new account (recommended using your Erasmus email address as this will make it easier to affiliate with your institutional's licence)
After creating a personal Covidence account and joining the institutional's licence account, you will be able to sign in from anywhere by visiting: https://www.covidence.org/sign_in
Starting a review within the institutional licence account:
Sign in to Covidence
Select the 'Start a new review' button
Under 'Which account do you want to use?', MAKE SURE TO SELECT - 'Erasmus MC'
Reviews created using Erasmus MC licence account will only be visible to your local Covidence subscription administrators.
Reviews created by you are only accessible to you and your invited reviewer team.
Once you have created a review or accepted an invitation to another review, the title 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 via the chat icon in the lower right corner, and the comprehensive articles from our Knowledge Base from the '?' icon on the upper right corner of the window.
Maintaining Access to Your Work When Leaving the Institution
You are required to add a secondary email address before leaving, as this will ensure uninterrupted access to your Covidence account.
If you need to log back into your Covidence account but cannot because you don’t have access to your university email address anymore, please get in touch by emailing support@covidence.org.