How to join SUNY Upstate’s Covidence institutional license

To request access to Upstate’s Covidence account, you must have an active @upstate.edu email address.

  1. Go to our invitation request page.
  2. Enter your name and upstate.edu email address, then click “Request Invitation.”
  3. Accept the invitation in your email (check your spam folder if the invitation doesn’t arrive in a few minutes).
  4. Create your new account (or if you have an existing Covidence account associated with your upstate.edu email, log in). This should link you to SUNY Upstate’s institutional account.
  5. If you experience any problems, reach out to us at libsuppt@upstate.edu.


Creating a review using the SUNY Upstate unlimited license

After clicking “Start a new review”, you will have the option to use your personal account license or select the SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library account. If you choose to use your personal account you will be given one free trial, which will allow for a maximum of 2 reviewers and 500 references. After you use your free trial, you will be required to pay Covidence directly for any additional reviews set up using your personal account.

Upstate users may create unlimited reviews for no personal cost using the SUNY Upstate Health Sciences Library account.

Please note that reviews created under the institutional license will be visible to the administrators of the SUNY Upstate Covidence account. Your personal account review(s) will only be seen by you.

 

Once you have created a review or accepted an invitation to another SUNY Upstate 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”

  1. From the review Settings, navigate to “Add/remove reviewers”
  2. Click on “Invite another reviewer” and enter your reviewer’s first name and email addresses to invite them

Want to learn more?

Covidence offers monthly training webinars (registration required), along with 24-hour methodological or technical support at support@covidence.org. 

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. Their Knowledge Base can help you with Getting Started with Covidence with your review, or you can refer to their online video tutorials for assistance.

Logged into your Covidence account and need help? Click the question mark in the upper right hand corner to access support.

Happy Reviewing!