Covidence = “Collaboration” + “Evidence”, is a powerful web-based platform designed to simplify and accelerate the systematic review process. Researchers and students may feel the systematic review workload is overwhelming, from screening thousands of articles to extracting data and resolving conflicts.
What can Covidence do?
Covidence can support key stages of the review process, including:
Importing references from databases
Screening titles and abstracts to identify relevant studies
Full-text review to assess eligibility
Data extraction and quality assessment of included studies
Collaboration with team members, including conflict resolution
How to invite a team member to a review
Get Started with Covidence
While the library does not currently have a subscription to Covidence, a trial has been established for all EdUHK members until April 15, 2025. Trial accounts can only be created by invitation. If you are interested in trying it out, please inform us at myhyiu@eduhk.hk, and the library will send you an invitation as below:

Note: When you fill in the required information to complete the registration, remember to use your EdUHK email.
Training Resources from Covidence
Covidence has its own YouTube channel with video tutorials to to guide you through the main features of the system.
Useful Resources from Covidence
- Quick Step-by-Step Guide
- Data Extraction for Intervention Systematic Reviews
- Covidence blog - Follow Covidence's blog to find helpful resources, insights and product updates
- Covidence Webinar - Attend the next live session or watch the latest recording