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Systematic reviews: Covidence and other Screening tools

Screening tools & review platforms

Covidence
Institutional licensed review platform.

Silvi.ai
Silvi is an end-to-end screening and data extraction tool supporting Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis. Flexible text tagging and data export functionalities. Useful for qualitative reviews as it also supports an inductive approach to text analysis as well as the expected workflows in the traditional systematic review process.

Rayyan
Web-screening tool, with different pricing options. Free version is good, even with the limited choice of features
Guide: Rayyan Youtube

Cadima
CADIMA is a free web tool facilitating the conduct and assuring for the documentation of systematic reviews, systematic maps and further literature reviews. Link to Cadima tutorials

EPPI reviewer
SSoftware used for all types of reviews, including literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyzes and narrative reviews.
The system is developed by The EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit for UCL Institute of Education, University of London. 
Licensed, UCPH does not have access.

DistillerSR
AI-powered review platform that automates the review process claiming faster project completion and transparent, audit ready results. Developed by Evidence Partners, Canada.

SR ToolBox
The Systematic Review Toolbox is a free web-based catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process across many different disciplines. Edited and maintained by a small team of researchers from the Evidence Synthesis Group at Newcastle University and the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield.

Screening tools & review platforms

Screening tools and review platforms support and guide you through the screening of academic literature for your systematic review. The screening is initially conducted on titles and abstracts, later on full texts, and also includes support for, for example, inclusion and exclusion criteria. The programs can be particularly useful tools when:

  • You have multiple reviewers collaborating
  • You want support to systematically work through the review process and gather documentation along the way
  • You anticipate needing to prepare multiple reviews and want to ensure an efficient process

Covidence - UCPH access

Covidence is a cloud-based review platform that helps you import up to 100,000 references, sort your references, attach PDFs and allows integration with reference managers. Covidence supports the screening process, and allows screening on your mobile. Further, you can automatically populate your risk of bias tables by highlighting and commenting on text directly in your PDF and export a single, machine-readable file that easily integrates into all the common statistics packages.

How to access the University's institutional licence account:

New Users:

If you have not yet signed up to Covidence with your University (KU) email address you need to create a new account. You can do this by simply signing in via Single-Sign-On (SSO).

  1. Go to the Covidence Sign-up page, select Create account with SSO and enter your KU email address.
  2. You will be redirected to your university's SSO login page, and enter your university credentials. If entered correctly, you will be redirected back to Covidence.
  3. You will be required to provide additional details to ensure your Covidence account functions correctly. Please specify your academic affiliation in the field “Please specify your role”. If you are a student please select the title of your program as it appears (and can be found) by using University of Copenhagen’s official homepage: https://www.ku.dk/studies, such as “Master of Science (MSc) in Medicine” or “Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Psychology”. If you are a researcher please write the title of your department.
  4. Then click Create account.

Please read the introduction to Covidence-powerpoint that can be accessed in the right menu, "Get help with Covidence".

Existing Users:

  1. Go to the Covidence Sign-in page, select Sign in with SSO, and enter your KU email address.
  2. You will be redirected to your university's SSO login page, and enter your university credentials. If entered correctly, you will be redirected back to Covidence.
  3. If you have previously used Covidence and already have a user account associated with your KU email address, simply log in via SSO to see your existing reviews and subscriptions and to create new reviews

Covidence





Covidence is a licensed cloud-based review platform.
Students and researchers affiliated UCPH will have access from Autumn 2021.
Contact the SR service at the university library here for more information: KUB SR Service

Guides:

Videos to get you started with Covidence

Up-to-date introductory videos from Covidence. This video series covers:

  • Creating a new review
  • Inviting reviewers
  • Importing citations
  • Screening

Covidence YouTube channel

Covidence has an active YouTube channel in which short topical tutorials are regularly published. Learn, amongst others, how to:

  • Export in Covidence compatible files
  • Data extraction
  • Developing the search
  • Machine learning in Covidence
  • Voting
  • and much more....

Longer webinars that go more into details and methods are available at the  "Covidence Academy" . Find, amongst others, webinars on data extraction, bulk upload of references and how to conduct systematic reviews. 

Courses at the faculty libraries