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Literature Reviews: Systematic, Scoping, Integrative

What is Covidence?

Covidence is an online tool to help you manage and streamline your review protocol. Thanks to Treadwell Library at MGH, it is free for the IHP community. Watch the short video below to preview some of its features.

Learn How to Use Covidence

You have several options for learning how to use Covidence.

Take the Workshop

Our self-paced and asynchronous D2L workshop makes it easy and convenient to learn how to use Covidence. Click here to enroll. The entire workshop takes about 1-2 hours to complete.

Request a Consultation

If you need further assistance after taking the workshop or would prefer a live group training, please Ask a Librarian to set up a consultation/training.

Use Covidence Support

Covidence has an extensive Knowledge Base with instructions and videos to help you learn how to use all of Covidence's features.

Register for Covidence

To access Covidence, request an invitation here using your mgh.harvard.edu or mghihp.edu e-mail address. Do not use your partners.org address.

Critical Appraisal Tools

If you are making critical appraisal/quality assessment part of your review, there are several tools and checklists out there to help make it easier.

More Review Tools

The tools linked to below are just some of the software packages and applications that are available to help you manage and/or complete your review. This is a list of the tools that we felt were the most useful and usable. Most of these are free. If any of them have a cost to use, this will be indicated in the description. To search for more tools not listed here, check out the Systematic Review Toolbox, linked below. If you need advice choosing a tool or help using one, please Ask a Librarian.

Review Management Tools

Search Assistance Tools

Data Extraction Tools

Reporting Tools