
BOOTH #522
MLA | SLA + Covidence.
Presenting the world's #1 systematic review software that over 270+ world-leading universities and institutes provide access to.
Covidence is excited to see you at MLA | SLA 2023!
We're thrilled to be attending this year's MLA | SLA Conference. We are located on booth number 522 to answer any questions you may have and show you some exciting product updates!
We also have a number of scheduled events in the conference calendar; on Thursday, check out our tech showcase to see the latest and greatest updates from Covidence. Then, on Friday, start your day off right with a sunrise seminar and breakfast buffet. You can also pick up a number of freebies along the way and get involved with our competition!
The details of our exciting competition are below. Find out how to enter to be in with a chance to win some amazing prizes, including some instant-win Amazon vouchers! We can't wait to see you there and hope you have an amazing time!
Tech Showcase
Covidence: systematic review technology now and for the future (25 mins)
Learn about Covidence’s new and upcoming features to help you provide expert support to your reviewing teams. Tech Showcase: Thurs 18 May, 10-10:30 AM, Exhibit Hall E, Level 1.
Thursday 10:00 am
Sunrise Seminar
Covidence: Better systematic review management (55 mins)
An overview of the Covidence platform with all the information you need to get started. Sunrise Seminar: Fri, 19 May, 7:30 to 9:00 AM, Room 260, Level 2.
Friday 7:30 am
The Covidence Competition!
Get involved to be in with a chance of winning; $10, $25 or a $50 Amazon voucher OR win a chance to be entered into our ballot to win the big prize of $300 Amazon Voucher!
How to enter
Step 1: Attend our booth or conference activity. Head to our booth or attend the tech showcase or sunrise seminar to receive your Covidence sticker to be in with a chance of winning!
Step 2: Wear your sticker with pride. Make sure your sticker is visible as you walk around the exhibition so one of our team can easily spot you!
Step 3: Get spotted and pick from the raffle. If one of our team spot you wearing a Covidence sticker you will be invited to choose a raffle ticket from a box to instantly win either a $10, $25 or a $50 Amazon voucher OR a chance to be entered into our ballot to win the big prize of a whopping $300 Amazon Voucher! The winner of the ballot will be picked at random after the event and notified via email.
Creating a center for delivering world-class research.
Innovate by leveraging technology.
Covidence is a digital tool that has been found to be highly valuable by students and researchers around the world. Our access models are designed to remove obstacles around access, collaboration, and support. Covidence is always available without limits of any kind, to every patron of the library and beyond, if need be, as access/usage is always at the sole discretion of the library. We’ve now partnered with over 300 medical/academic libraries around the world, which has allowed Covidence to become the largest online community of evidence-based researchers in the world. Covidence is also the most popular Systematic Review platform in use today.
Used by world-leading institutions
Covidence is used by leading institutions across the world from Harvard and Johns Hopkins and Yale University.
Covidence is a not-for-profit organization and has a mission to change the way the world creates and uses trustworthy knowledge. Join a community of over 300k Covidence users who take advantage of:
- Remote team collaboration
- A centralized repository of institutional research
- A centralized administrator dashboard so you can track progress, from anywhere
- Publication ready with auto PRISMA population
- 24-hour support team
- A dedicated academic success manager
- A step-by-step systematic review workflow.
Read more below.
TESTIMONIAL
“[Covidence] Enables the whole review team to screen collaborate on a systematic review online from anywhere"
A University Lecturer.
Systematic Reviews are on the rise across the world.
With the rate of Systematic Reviews increasing across the world, it has never been more vital to support your researchers with Covidence. By providing Covidence your organization you will set your researchers up for success from the very beginning.
Published Systematic Reviews in the world by year. Source: PubMed.
Trusted by leading institutions such as; Harvard University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University...
Deliver world-class research with Covidence...
Our intuitive platform has been designed by researchers for researchers, and, as a social enterprize, we continually reinvest in our product to bring the very best support and service to our community of thousands of researchers and world-leading institutions across the globe.
Continuous product updates & robust testing
Save your reviewers up to 71 hours.
Leveraging machine learning for smarter screening
As a not-for-profit, we continuously reinvest in our product, ensuring that it is constantly improving and rigorously tested for quality to provide the best possible product for our community.
Covidence can use your team’s voting behaviour to display the studies that are most likely to get a yes vote first. Some of your team can start reviewing the full texts of these studies while others finish up the title and abstract stage to get screening finished sooner.
Covidence streamlines the process of creating systematic reviews. It takes away the effort of a manual setup, allowing you to spend more of your valuable time on your work.
A dedicated customer support team
Our support team sees themselves as an extension of your team and will manage user access training and ongoing patron support so you have more time to provide high value services.
A team of seasoned systematic reviewers
Our team is built of experienced systematic reviewers who are here to provide guidance and support.
Quick responses (24/7)
Our members are located in different time zones across the world, so you can expect a quick response whenever you need help. This means you can stay on top of your tasks and have minimal interruptions.
Covidence Academy
We provide step-by-step guides that break down the process, so you can understand exactly what you need to do to get your desired outcome. And if you're still having trouble, we also have video demos to help you out.
Dedicated success manager
As an institutional subscriber, you will have a dedicated success manager appointed to you who will be your direct line for any inquiries you may have from support to queries about your account.
Cloud-based for quick set-up
Covidence is cloud-based meaning there is no software to install. We will even help migrate existing reviews over to save you time and get your solution set up sooner.
"I found the Covidence site simple to use as a student with little experience of systematic reviews. I think this subscription would help many others gain skills in reviews too."
A University Lecturer.
Testimonials were collected from existing Covidence users with their permission to share them with you.
Covidence + Library professionals
Create a library-centered hub for research.
We believe that the library should be the hub of knowledge, and it is where Covidence finds its place in esteemed institutions such as Yale University, the University of York and Lund Universitet. These institutions have created a central hub for institutional research, with the library at the core of the institution.

Administrator dashboard for a live overview
As an Administrator, you will have a comprehensive view of your team's reviews from a centralized repository. This feature enables you to effortlessly monitor the progress of individual projects or assess usage across your institution with ease.
Multiple review types across multiple disciplines
"I’m talking with colleagues from all disciplines about how Covidence can be applied beyond health sciences because it’s intuitive and universal – it’s a great tool to help any field of study champion evidence-based practice."
Covidence is an ideal tool for all types of systematic reviews, from literature reviews to scoping reviews and rapid reviews. It is suitable for a wide range of disciplines, including healthcare, business studies, and mathematics.
Lindsey Sikora, Health Sciences Research Liaison Librarian, University of Ottawa

A dedicated success manager and on-site training
Your success manager is there to help with everything from training sessions to existing review migration. Any questions or queries you may have; you will have a direct line to reach someone at Covidence, whenever you need it. We also offer on-site or live-streamed training sessions for you and your patrons.

Ready to learn more?
Covidence + Heads of Faculty & Research supervisors

Collaborate & supervise reviews from anywhere
With Covidence, you can easily connect with your team members from any location and work together as one. With an administrator dashboard for a complete overview, giving you control even when supervising from afar.

Student support around the clock
Our team consists of highly experienced systematic reviewers who are available to provide guidance and support around the clock. We are here to assist with any issues, big or small, and to take care of the workflow so that you can focus on the supervision.
A step-by-step &intuitive guide
"As a supervisor, Covidence helps you keep on track of [researchers'] progress as they follow the systematic review process one step at a time..."
Benita Olivier,
Professor of musculoskeletal
physiotherapy and PhD supervisor
Covidence’s intuitive design is built with methodological rigour in mind. As users progress, they are taught the process of conducting a systematic review, making it more efficient, and saving you time while increasing accuracy.
Increase accuracy and be publication-ready with the built-in PRISMA population.

Transparent reporting of methods is essential, and Covidence can help you do just that. By automatically populating a PRISMA flow diagram as you screen, Covidence makes reporting fast and accurate. You can now also keep track of which database or other source the references in your review came from, and this info will be summarised on your PRISMA diagram!
"I’m talking with colleagues from all disciplines about how Covidence can be applied beyond health sciences because it’s intuitive and universal – it’s a great tool to help any field of study champion evidence-based practice."
Lindsey Sikora,
Health Sciences Research Liaison Librarian, University of Ottawa
"Covidence has simplified our workflow and saved countless hours during the screening process. The team is always super responsive and helpful and great to work with."
Kelvin Hill,
Manager, National Manager, Clinical Services
at National Stroke Foundation
"As a supervisor, Covidence helps you keep on track of [researchers'] progress as they follow the systematic review process one step at a time..."
Benita Olivier,
Professor of musculoskeletal
physiotherapy and PhD supervisor
TRAINING
Available Training for Institutional Subscribers...
Administrator Training
(45 mins)
Patron Training: Overview (1 hour)
Patron Training: Setting up the review (1 hour)
Overview of the resources tailored to help with managing the admin dashboard of the organizational account, users, and repository on Covidence.
Overview of the Covidence workflow.
The Covidence patron training webinar includes a live demo providing an overview of the systematic review workflow and showcasing some of our most popular features. Your patrons will also get tips and tricks to jumpstart their review progress, as well as the opportunity to get their specific questions answered.
For beginners and novice users.
All you need to know about getting a review project up and running in Covidence. It’s aimed at beginners and novice users, or those who haven't used the software for a while and want to get up to speed with new features as well as the opportunity to get your specific questions answered.
Patron Training: Full-text retrieval (1 hour)
Patron Training: Data extraction (1 hour)
Awareness Day (on-site)
Arrange a day for your relevant department and/or library to help promote and raise awareness of your license by Covidence being present on-site. An awareness table setup where your students and staff can stop for more information, find help, get signed up, and giveaways to take. An in-person user training session can also be incorporated into part of the day!
A step-by-step guide to Covidence’s bulk PDF upload feature. It’s aimed at users who are at the full-text review stage, or who would like to find out more about it. You’ll also get tips and tricks to jumpstart your progress, as well as the opportunity to get your specific questions answered.
A deep dive into Covidence’s Data Extraction 2 tool. It’s aimed at reviewers who want to understand more about the process of collecting information from included studies and exporting it for analysis. You’ll also get tips and tricks to jumpstart your progress, as well as the opportunity to get your specific questions answered.
See Covidence in action and learn more about how it can help you provide a valuable and cost-effective systematic review management solution to your institution, today.
Don't just take our word for it...
Australian Clinical guidelines
University of Ottawa
Top Ranked U.S. Teaching Hospital
Top Ranked U.S. Teaching Hospital Delivers Effective Systematic Review Management
How Covidence has enabled living guidelines for Australians impacted by stroke
University of Ottawa Drives Systematic Review Excellence Across Many Academic Disciplines