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Scoping reviews

Information describing scoping reviews and suitability for your topic, and resources to aid in conducting one.

Introducing Covidence

About Covidence

Covidence is a web-based tool that can simplify the processes of systematic and scoping reviews. It is designed to easily import citations ready for screening by multiple reviewers. The tool provides keyword highlighting and records the voting of screeners. Uploading 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.

With Covidence you will be able to:

  • import citations from your reference manager
  • screen titles and abstracts
  • upload references
  • screen full text
  • create custom tables for data extraction
  • populate risk of bias tables 
  • export 

Covidence demo (4:07 mins) by Covidence (YouTube)

Accessing Covidence

Use your RMIT University email address to request access to the RMIT account in Covidence.

  1. Go to the Covidence Sign-up page
  2. Select create an account with SSO
  3. Enter your email (@rmit.edu.au OR @student.rmit.edu.au)

If you have already joined RMIT University's Covidence account, then you can log into Covidence with your email and password and proceed to use Covidence.
 

RMIT Vietnam and RMIT Europe

To ensure compliance with RMIT's privacy guidelines, RMIT Vietnam and RMIT Europe staff and students are asked not to accept invitations to access Covidence review projects created under the RMIT licence using non-RMIT emails. Australian-based staff and students are asked not to invite colleagues based outside Australia to use the system.

Getting started with Covidence

Creating a review

How to create a review (1:40 min) by Covidence (YouTube)

Invite a reviewer

Invite a reviewer (0:26 sec) by Covidence (YouTube)

How to use the team settings page in Covidence

Importing references and duplicates

How to import references

How to import references (5:29 min) by Covidence (YouTube)

Importing citations into Covidence from EndNote

Managing duplicates

Managing duplicates (0:37 sec) by Covidence (YouTube)

Screening

How to screen by title and abstract

How to screen by title and abstract (2:11 min) by Covidence (YouTube)

How to screen by full-text

How to screen by full-text (4:48 min) by Covidence (YouTube)

How to undo a vote

How to undo a vote (2:34 min) by Covidence (YouTube)

Resolving conflicts

Resolving conflicts (3:37 min) by Covidence (YouTube)

Other Covidence features

Introduction to Extraction with Covidence

Customising your quality assessment in Covidence

PRISMA: download and edit the flow diagram

Covidence support

There are a number of support resources available from Covidence.

Reviews in Covidence are automatically backed up. If you have any issues with a Covidence review, contact the support team via their email support@covidence.org