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Scoping Reviews in Social Work

Covidence

Covidence is now available to BU researchers. This is a powerful tool for managing your evidence synthesis project and it enables you to de-duplicate your citations and allows you to collaborate on the screening process with your fellow students or researchers. Covidence also has a data extraction tool. Here are some resources to help you get started with Covidence:

Accessing Covidence

BU has institutional subscription to Covidence for systematic and scoping reviews. To sign-up:

1.  Visit this link.

2. Enter you name and BU email address:

Covidence sign up window

 

3. An email will then be sent to the BU email you shared. Log-in to your BU email address, and look for an email from Covidence with your invitation:

 

Accept Covidence email

 

4. Press the button that says "Accept Invitation." You will then be all set to log-in and get started! 

5. Log-in using your new username and password.

6. When asked which account do you want to use, select "Alumni Medical Library." You will have unlimited reviews you are able to create, edit, and work on:

Which account do you want to use

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