Covidence

UC Davis Library has licensed Covidence systematic review software. Covidence is a tool to manage the systematic review process, and is used in many health professions systematic reviews, including Cochrane reviews. Current UC Davis affiliates wanting to use Covidence for systematic review management can use this link to sign up.

JBI Sumari

UC Davis Library licenses Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Evidence-based Practice database, including SUMARI (The System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information), its tool for systematic review management. For systematic reviews in nursing or other health professions, or for those using the Joanna Briggs approach, this is a key tool. SUMARI can be accessed through the JBI database.

Abstract Screening Tools

Brown School of Public Health’s Abstrakr — Helps upload and organize literature for systematic reviews and assists with screening and organizing citations.

Data Extraction

AHRQ’s Systematic Review Data Repository (also see SRDR Plus above)— Tool for the extraction and management of data for systematic review or meta-analysis. It is also an open and searchable archive of systematic reviews and their data.

Brown School of Public Health’s SRDR Plus — The Systematic Review Data Repository: Plus (SRDR Plus) is a tool for extracting, managing, and archiving data.

Citation Organization

Rayyan — Helps organize and track citations in a systematic review

Other Systematic Review Project Management Tools

DistillerSR — Systematic review project management tool [fee-based product]

RevMan — used for Cochrane Collaboration systematic reviews. Allows you to prepare text, build tables showing the characteristics of studies and comparisons in the review, and add study data