Covidence

Covidence is an online systematic review program developed by, and for, systematic reviewers. It can import citations from reference managers like EndNote, facilitate the screening of abstracts and full-text, populate risk of bias tables, assist with data extraction, and export to all common formats.

Covidence Demo video [3:24]

Covidence is a core component of Cochrane's review production toolkit and has also been endorsed by JBI.

Access to UTAS Covidence account

If you are the project leader, follow these steps to create a UTAS Covidence account:

Once you have created your UTAS Covidence account, you can create a review and invite others to join the review.

If you are not the project leader, please wait for your invitation from your project leader to join the review (you don't need to create a UTAS Covidence account).
 

Covidence Training & Help

• Need some help getting started? Covidence offers regular training webinars. You also have the option to 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. The Step-by-step webinars playlist is particularly useful for in-depth guidance.
• Head to the Covidence knowledge base to get answers to FAQs.
• Contact support@covidence.org anytime to answer any of your questions.

Abstrackr

Abstrackr is a software for semi-automated abstract screening for systematic reviews. At present, Abstrackr is a free, open-source tool for facilitating the citation screening process. Upload your abstracts, invite reviewers, and get to screening!

Rayyan

Rayyan is a free online tool that can be used for screening and coding of studies in a systematic review. It uses tagging and filtering to code and organise references.

JBI SUMARI

The System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information (SUMARI) is JBI's software for the systematic review of literature.

It is designed to assist researchers to conduct systematic reviews and facilitates the entire review process. SUMARI supports 10 review types. It is especially useful for new review types and qualitative reviews.

University of Tasmania researchers have access to SUMARI via the JBI EBP Database under EBP Tools.

SUMARI support:

Systematic Review Accelerator

The Systematic Review Accelerator (SRA) is a suite of automation tools developed by the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University. The SRA tools aim to make literature review and synthesis processes faster while maintaining and enhancing quality. The suite includes tools that can help with designing search strategies, title and abstract screening, citation tracking, and writing drafts for methods and result sections.

The SRA tools are free and include extensive help pages.
 

RevMan

RevMan 5 is the software used for preparing and maintaining Cochrane Reviews. RevMan facilitates preparation of protocols and full reviews, including text, characteristics of studies, comparison tables, and study data. It can perform meta-analysis of the data entered, and present the results graphically.

RevMan 5 is no longer being developed, but they continue to support Cochrane authors.

RevMan Web is the next generation of Cochrane's software for preparing and maintaining systematic reviews. This web-based version of RevMan works across all platforms, is installation-free, and automatically updated. 

DistillerSR

DistillerSR is a systematic review software. It was designed from the ground up to provide a better review experience, faster project completion and transparent, audit-ready results.

What can you do in DistillerSR?
Upload your references from any reference management software, create screening and data extraction forms, lay out workflow and assign reviewers, monitor study progress and review process, export results (incl PRISMA flowchart automation).

This software is more sophisticated and a bit harder to learn. DistillerSR attracts a fee.

SR Toolbox

The Systematic Review Toolbox is a community-driven, searchable, web-based catalogue of tools that support the systematic review process across multiple domains. The resource aims to help reviewers find appropriate tools based on how they provide support for the systematic review process. Users can perform a simple keyword search (i.e. Quick Search) to locate tools, a more detailed search (i.e. Advanced Search) allowing users to select various criteria to find specific types of tools and submit new tools to the database.