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Covidence is a web-based software platform that streamlines the production of knowledge synthesis projects, such as scoping and systematic reviews. It supports citation screening, full text review, risk of bias assessment, extraction of study characteristics and outcomes, and the export of data and references.

The interface is intuitive and is suitable for new and experienced reviewers. Covidence can save time on repetitive review tasks, enabling faster review production and more time for analysis and interpretation.

A short demo video of Covidence is available below:

Due to copyright laws and publisher licensing agreements, there are restrictions on sharing full-text articles in Covidence with individuals who are not affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan (USask). USask reviewers working with colleagues from other institutions should not upload full-text articles or book chapters obtained through University Library subscriptions or interlibrary loan services to Covidence. You may upload the full text of articles when they have been made available under terms and conditions which permit this use, such as by an open license. Article DOI links may also be used to facilitate full-text access. If you have questions about uploading materials to Covidence, please contact copyright.help@usask.ca.

• Covidence is not approved for restricted or limited data
• Users are responsible for the appropriate use of review data
• Personal and review data may be stored outside of Canada
• Personal and review data deletion is available by contacting Covidence
• Users are responsible for ensuring review data is deleted after the project is completed. 
• Review data can be exported in multiple formats, depending on the data type (see Exporting Data)
  • Ensure that the research data you export from Covidence is stored according to the USask's Data Storage and Handling Guidelines

Please read Covidence's Privacy Policy for more information on how Covidence uses personal and review data.