Covidence

Covidence

The Library has signed up for an unlimited license to Covidence. 

Covidence is an online tool used in the management and creation of systematic and systematic-like reviews. Covidence makes citation screening easier and supports many aspects of the systematic review process including full-text review, risk of bias assessment, extraction of study characteristics and outcomes, and the export of data and references. Covidence streamlines the production of reviews and enables a collaborative team-based approach to complex reviews. 

Access to Charles Sturt University’s Covidence account and projects 

If you are interested in using Covidence and are ready to start your review, please request a project through the Covidence website.

1. Click on the sign-up to Covidence link
2. Enter your information using your Charles Sturt University email address (e.g. @csu.edu.au) and select "Request Invitation"
3. An invitation will be emailed to you. Open the email invitation and select "Accept this invitation".
4. Create a Covidence account, using the same email address. 

Covidence Training & Help

• Covidence offers monthly Covidence 101 training webinars. You can also listen to the recording of a recent session.
• Work through the content of the Covidence Academy.
• Subscribe to the Covidence YouTube Channel to find video tutorials and recorded webinars.
• Head to the Covidence knowledge base to get answers to FAQs.

Contact support@covidence.org if you need further help.

Students

Access to Covidence reviews is available to staff and postgraduate students with a @csu.edu.au email address. Undergraduate students requiring access must have their lecturer or supervisor submit the review on their behalf. Alternatively, for immediate access, we recommend utilising the free trial version of Covidence or JBI Sumari.

A trial version is available for reviews with up to 500 citations and a maximum of two reviewers.

Contact support@covidence.org if you need further help.

SUMARI - System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information - is published by the Joanna Briggs Institute at the University of Adelaide. "JBI SUMARI facilitates the entire systematic review process, from project and team management to writing of the final report." [from https://www.jbisumari.org/]. It has 10 different methodologies for 10 different types of research questions.

For instructions on how to access JBI SUMARI:

On 31 January 2022, JBI introduced a new login process for JBI Tools.

• If you are a new SUMARI user, you will need to set up an account. Go to Ovid's JBI Tool Login Options and follow the instructions for new JBI Tool users.
• If you had an existing Sumari account before January 2022, go to Ovid's JBI Tool Login Options and follow the instructions for Existing MYJBI users who have never accessed via Ovid before.

For a full range of help resources, go to the JBI Knowledge Base. It includes a link to the JBI SUMARI video playlist, a collection of 23 short videos.