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Covidence: Information & support

Covidence is an easy-to-use web-based tool that assists in streamlining the production of systematic reviews.

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  • Overview
  • Introduction to Covidence
  • Create a linked author profile
  • Instructions for adding a review
  • Instructions for adding authors
  • Other help videos
  • Support

Features

Covidence is designed to easily import citations ready for screening by multiple reviewers. It provides keyword highlighting and records the voting of screeners. Uploading full copy PDFs is quick and easy and exclusion notes can be captured to resolve disagreements.

Covidence includes customisable data extraction forms and automatically populates the Risk of Bias tables and Prisma Flow Chart. Covidence can be used from the beginning of your Systematic Review - title/abstract screening right through to the beginning of your meta-analysis

InfoThis resource is available to all ANZCA Fellows and Trainees.

HelpIf you would like Librarian assistance with your Systematic Review/Using Covidence please tick YES in this section within the ANZCA Author Profile Invite Form. Our Research Librarian can assist with searching across databases, advice on conducting and reporting systematic reviews.

HelpLibKey Nomad integration available for full-text article access

Upcoming webinars

Title: Building your Data Extraction Template

Date/Time: Thursday, 22 May 2025; Live 1-2AM (AEST) - 1 hr

During this session we will use a protocol to provide a step-by-step approach to create and edit a Template using Data extraction 1 newest features. You will get to see the finished product. This webinar is aimed at new and experienced users interested in acquiring skills to use our Data Extraction 1 template.

We will showcase our latest features in:

  • Data Extraction 1

Bonus: You get to see how our Data extraction template can accommodate both quantitative and qualitative designs.


Duration: 3 mins 24 secs

In order to take advantage of the ANZCA Covidence subscription, it is necessary for us to send you an invite so that we can link your author profile to the ANZCA account.

  1. Complete the ANZCA profile invite form.
  2. A "You've been invited to Covidence" email will be sent to your nominated email address with 2-3 working days.
  3. Click on the Accept invitation link and link an existing Covidence author profile or create a new author profile which is linked to the account.

How to create a review (1 min 40 secs)


To begin a new review:

  1. Sign into Covidence
  2. Select the [ Start a new review ] button

  1. The Start a new review pane will appear:

  1. Input the details of your new review:
    • Enter a name in the Name your review field
    • Which account to use? = make sure to select the ANZCA - unlimited reviews leftradio button
  2. Click the [ Create Review ] button when complete

You can add authors/reviewers when you first create your review, or you can add them later by going to the Settings> Reviewers menu.

To add to a reviewer directly after creating a review:

  1. Select the Reviewers tab
  2. Select the [ Invite another reviewer ] button
  3. Enter their First name and Email address and click the [ Invite ] button

To add to a pre-existing review:

  1. Sign into Covidence
  2. Click on the review name
  3. From the menu, select Settings
  4. Select the Reviewers tab
  5. Select the [ Invite another reviewer ] button
  6. Enter their First name and Email address and click the [ Invite ] button

LibKey Nomad can be used to access ANZCA full-text via Covidence using Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi and Safari. It will also allow users to request articles not held full text and see article retraction warnings.

Click here to learn more

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