Covidence

The Library, in partnership with the Office of Research Services & Graduate Studies, has signed up for a 12 month limited license to Covidence, with access to 100 projects in total. 

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

During the first 12 months, access to the Charles Sturt Covidence projects will be offered to academic staff and research students ready to start a review project, . If you are interested in using Covidence and are ready to start your review, please contact the Library. 

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 futher help.

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

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.