You should plan in advance how you will manage the files and records for your review.

• Deakin University has a Systematic Review Planner document which you could adapt. It's available from Deakin's Systematic and systematic-like review toolkit.
• A PRISMA flow diagram will be useful for organising a workflow for your review, including recording the number of results you have after each stage of the screening process.
• The Systematic Review Toolbox is a constantly evolving online catalogue of tools for all systematic Reviews, including software, critical appraisal, reporting standards, and guidelines. You can search by discipline, cost (including free), and stage of review.
• Retraction Watch is a website that track scientific papers that have been retracted. The reason for the retraction is also recorded.
• Retractions Australia is an online resource dedicated to highlighting data regarding scientific retractions - the removal of published research papers from scientific journals.
• Systematic Reviewlution is a website that compiles evidence of Systematic Reviews that are not done well. 

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 

Note - if you have previously used Covidence, log in and check that your Charles Sturt email address is associated with your account (you can have two email address in your Profile). 

To join Charles Sturt's institutional license, go to the Covidence website and follow these instructions:

1. Click on the sign-up to Covidence link
2. Enter your information using your Charles Sturt 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 or log in to your Covidence account, using the same email address. 
5. Create a review project with Charles Sturt's subscription.

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.

• How to get started with Covidence Step by step instructions and videos to start using Covidence

JBI SUMARI

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. 

JBI SUMARI is available to Charles Sturt users. 

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.

• How to get started with JBI Sumari Step by step instructions and videos to start using JBI Sumari

Rayyan

Rayyan is a free online tool that can be used for screening and coding studies in a systematic review. It supports collaboration between reviewers, and includes a mobile app for screening. For more information about this tool, see McGill University's Rayyan for Systematic Reviews guide.

Systematic Review Accelerator (SRA)

Produced by the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University, the SRA is a suite of automation tools designed to speed up the systematic review process. You can access the tools at the Systematic Review Accelerator, but you might to check first the IEBH's Research tools webpage.

A new update to the SRA is now available called TERA.

EndNote

EndNote is a reference management software that you can use to download this tool and use it to organise your references, store your PDF files, and generate in-text citations and reference-lists. For information on how to download and use EndNote, go to our EndNote guide.

EndNote is particularly useful for systematic reviews as (among other things) it enables you to:

• Import references from databases and Primo search
• Sort your references into groups for each database searched 
• Attach the article PDF to a reference 
• Check for duplicate records
• Share your library with your colleagues.

More detailed information can be found in the University of Newcastle's guide, EndNote tips for systematic reviewers.

For help with EndNote, contact a Faculty Librarian or attend an EndNote online workshop - see Join library workshops.

NVivo

NVivo can be used in systematic and systematic-like reviews to code and analyse qualitative data. The Research Office conducts online workshops on NVivo - check the Researcher Training Calendar.

For more information, see Qualitative Data (NVivo).