Covidence allows research teams to move through the stages of evidence syntheses more efficiently while tracking and documenting their progress.

Covidence can assist with multiple steps in the systematic review/evidence synthesis process, including:

• Importing data from citation management tools like EndNote or databases
• Screening and selecting studies
• Resolving conflicts
• Extracting study data
• Assessing study quality/risk of bias
• Exporting data to multiple file types
• Creating PRISMA flow diagrams

Health Sciences Librarians at Abbott Library are available to assist with planning, searching, and reporting stages of knowledge syntheses. Please visit Evidence Synthesis with the Health Sciences Librarians at Abbott Library for more information.

You can create your personal account with Covidence before or after joining the institutional subscription. To request access to the institutional account in Covidence, you must use your current UB email address (@buffalo.edu).

Do not use your UBIT password when creating your credentials for Covidence.

1. Go to the sign up page: https://app.covidence.org/organizations/7xRoa/signup
2. Enter your information using your UB email address (@buffalo.edu) and click "Request Invitation" link. Do not use your UBIT password when creating your credentials for Covidence.
3. Open the email invitation and select “Accept this invitation”. If you are unable to find the invitation in your inbox, please check your junk folder.

Create a review

1. Sign-in to Covidence through https://www.covidence.org/
2. Click on “Start a new review”.
3. You will have the option to select your personal account or select the University at Buffalo license. Select University at Buffalo Libraries and “Create Review” to continue.

Please view the University at Buffalo Covidence support page for more information.