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Systematic Reviews for Health: Tools for Systematic Review

A guide on how a Research Librarian can help you during a systematic review process

Tools for Systematic Reviews

Managing the selection process can be challenging, particularly in a large-scale systematic review that involves multiple reviewers. There are various free and subscription-based tools available that support the study selection process (Cochrane Handbook, 4.6.6.1).

The University of Tasmania has access to Covidence and JBI SUMARI.

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

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.
 

Need More Help?
Book a consultation with a Learning and Research Librarian or contact Librarians@utas.edu.au.