Covidence

Covidence is a web-based software that streamlines literature and systematic reviews. It helps with the heavy lifting that comes with importing citations to facilitating the screening of abstracts and full text - populating risk of bias tables, extracting data, and exporting. It is particularly useful for researchers conducting a systematic review, meta-analysis or clinical guideline.

You will need a personal account.

1. Go to self-signup page to request an invitation. Be sure to use your @umb.edu email.
2. This triggers an invitation to automatically be sent to your email. 
3. Accept the invitation in your email – 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.
4. Log in to your existing Covidence account or sign up for a new account, which will automatically link you to University of Massachusetts Boston.
5. If you have already joined the University of Massachusetts Boston Covidence account, then you can log into Covidence and log in with your email and password and proceed to use Covidence.

In Covidence you can:

• Import references - Covidence works seamlessly with your favorite 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. Customizable extraction forms means you only spend time extracting what you need.
• Customize risk of bias - Automatically populate your risk of bias tables by highlighting and commenting on 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.