The Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce that, in association with our partners at the UNC Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Global Public Health, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, we now have an institutional site license for Covidence!
What is Covidence?
Covidence is a web-based software platform designed to facilitate the systematic review process. It can also be used in the classroom as a tool to help demonstrate the systematic review research method and critical appraisal of studies.
What does Covidence do?
Covidence assists with multiple steps in the systematic review process, including:
- Importing data from bibliographic management software tools
- Screening and selecting studies
- Resolving disagreements
- Extracting study data
- Assessing study quality/risk of bias
- Exporting data to multiple file types
- Creating PRISMA diagrams
How do I access Covidence?
You can access Covidence by going to the UNC Covidence Sign-Up Page and entering your name, UNC email address.
Where can I request help?
There are multiple ways to get help with using Covidence.
- If you would like a summary of what Covidence does and how it works, or more information on the systematic review process, check out our Covidence guide or our Systematic Reviews Guide.
- If you would like more in-depth instruction, sign up for a class on the HSL classes page.
- If you would like individual instruction or would like to set up a group instruction session, you can request a consult or class on our Ask a Librarian page.
