Covidence 101 - Do you have questions about how to get started on your first project or review? Then please join this monthly training webinar by Covidence which includes a live demo
Covidence Support Knowledge Base - Covidence provides pages of useful information including short video tutorials
Covidence is a web-based tool that will help you through the process of screening your references, data extraction, and keeping track of your work. It is particularly useful for researchers conducting a systematic review, meta-analysis or clinical guideline.
For more information and guidance on conducting knowledge synthesis projects, please see the UNBC Library Knowledge Synthesis Guide.
If you have not yet signed up to Covidence, you’ll need to create a new account. You can do this simply by signing in via SSO.
To do this:
Go to the Covidence sign up page.
Select Create account with SSO.
You'll be redirected to another page with this window:
Enter your UNBC email address.
Click Create account with SSO.
You'll be redirected to UNBC's SSO log in.
Enter your UNBC credentials. If you have multi-factor authentication enabled, you will have to complete the MFA process.
If you have entered correct credentials, you will be redirected back to Covidence.
To ensure your Covidence account functions correctly, you’ll be asked for a few additional details to get started. Fill these in, and then click Create account.
Welcome to your new Covidence account! You will be automatically associated with the UNBC subscription, so you’ll be able to get started right away.
If you have previously used Covidence, you already have a user account. If this user account is associated with your UNBC email address, you can simply log in via SSO and reach your existing account. You will see all of your existing reviews and subscriptions.
To do this:
Over time, people’s affiliations change, and it may become necessary to remove their access to an organizational subscription. It’s also important, however, that authors of systematic reviews are able to complete work they have already started so that research and dissemination of knowledge can progress. (That’s why Covidence exists, after all!)
When a user is signed in to their Covidence account via a method that is not SSO, they will not be able to use the organizational subscription to create new reviews, but they can still access their existing reviews. This also means that they will still appear as a member in the list of authors available to the administrators of the UNBC subscription.
A member becomes a non-member when their @unbc.ca or @alumni.unbc.ca email address is removed from their Covidence account. A non-member retains access to their existing reviews.
We recommend adding a secondary email address prior to the end date of your institutional affiliation to make it easier to continue using your Covidence account without interruption.
To do this follow these instructions:
1. Log into your Covidence account.
2. Click on your initials in the upper right corner and select Profile from the drop down menu.
3. Under Email Addresses, enter an alternate email address in the Add email address box.
4. Press Add.
Unlimited records for each review
Unlimited number of reviewers for each review
Unlimited number of reviews
