The Library of Trinity College Dublin

Support from Trinity College Dublin

Librarians at Trinity College Dublin can assist with planning, conducting, and reporting systematic reviews and other types of research reviews.

To learn more about conducting systematic reviews at Trinity College Dublin, contact your Subject Librarian.

How to join The Library of Trinity College Dublin’s Covidence institutional license:

You can create your personal sign-in information with Covidence before or after joining the institutional subscription. To request access to the institutional account in Covidence, you must use your current Trinity College Dublin email address (@tcd.ie).

Go to this page.
Enter your information (using your @tcd.ie email address) and click “Request Invitation” link
Accept the invitation in your email
Log in to your existing Covidence account or sign up for a new account
If you have already joined the Library of Trinity College Dublin Covidence account, then you can log in to Covidence and log in with your email and password and proceed to use Covidence.

Creating a review using the Library of Trinity College Dublin’s unlimited license:

After clicking the link “Create new review” you will have the option to use your personal account license or select the Library of Trinity College Dublin account.

Reviews created under the institutional license will be visible to the administrators of the Library of Trinity College Dublin 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 Trinity College Dublin account review, the title will appear in a separate section on your account homepage:

More about Covidence

The Covidence 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 reference management software such as EndNote (Desktop or Online), 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. 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.

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 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.