Welcome!

ESHRE Guidelines Team is excited to offer current staff access 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. 

In Covidence you can:

  • 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 complete 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.

 

Why join the ESHRE Guidelines Team access to Covidence?

  • Unlimited records for each review
  • Unlimited number of reviewers for each review

How to join the ESHRE Guidelines Team account:

You can create your personal sign-in information with Covidence before or after joining the subscription.

If you have '@eshre.eu' email address;

  1. Request an invitation to ESHRE Guidelines Team’s Covidence subscription via the self-sign-up link - https://app.covidence.org/organizations/7YNp3/signup
  2. Accept the invitation in your email (please check your spam folder if the invitation doesn’t arrive in a few minutes. Please also keep in mind that the link is one-time use and will expire in ~30 days)
  3. Log in to your existing Covidence account or sign up for a new account which will automatically link you to ESHRE Guidelines Team.

After creating a personal Covidence account and joining the ESHRE Guidelines Team subscription, you will be able to sign in from anywhere by visiting: https://www.covidence.org/sign_in

Starting a review using the ESHRE Guidelines Team license

  1. Sign in to Covidence
  2. Select “Start a new review”
  3. Select 'Which account do you want to use?", - ESHRE Guidelines Team
  4. Reviews created using the subscription account will be visible to Covidence subscription administrators at the company. Reviews created using your personal account are only visible to you. 

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

Working with review team members from other institutions?

Once a review is created, you are able to add co-reviewers.

  1. From the homepage (Your reviews), select the review you wish to add co-reviewers to and click on “Settings"
  2. From the review Settings, navigate to “Add/remove reviewers”
  3. Click on “Invite another reviewer” and enter your reviewer’s first name and email addresses to invite them

 

 

Support

To help you get familiar with how the Covidence workflow works, you can try our pre-set Demo review that resets after 24 hours. 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!

Covidence offers short video tutorials in their Knowledge Base to help you get started. See Getting Started with Covidence and Main steps in Covidence.

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

Covidence Academy is also a great resource containing useful ‘How to’ guides, step-by-step videos on Covidence features, and helpful links to additional resources.

Online Support Team - contact our team 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.