Systematic Reviews

Covidence is an online tool that helps streamline the process of systematic, narrative and scoping literature reviews. With an intuitive user experience, researchers can handle independent title/abstract screening, full text screening, data extraction and quality assessment using a single platform. Covidence makes collaboration easy and saves considerable amount of time for the whole team. To request access to the institutional account in Covidence, you must use your current @bswhealth.org or @tamu.edu email address.

Rayyan is a free web-tool designed to help researchers working on systematic reviews and other knowledge synthesis projects. It can help you dramatically speed up the process of screening and selecting studies.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has complied a extensive list of free or open source tools that can be used during the systematic review process. Our library subscribes to Covidence, which you can access for free from our library website.