Free Services

Abstrakr

Abstrakr is a free online tool to help you upload and organize the results of a literature search for a systematic review. It helps you and your team screen, organize, and manipulate all of your abstracts in one place.

Rayyan

Authors create systematic reviews, collaborate on them, maintain them over time and get suggestions for article inclusion.

RevMan Web / RevMan 5

There are two versions of this: web based and desktop. Both versions are available through Cochrane Library.  RevMan Web is free for Cochrane Authors. RevMan 5 is free of charge for preparing Cochrane reviews or for purely academic use.

Subscription-Based Services

Note: These services may have free trials.

Covidence

Software program for the screening process of articles. Covidence allows you to import references from numerous programs (e.g., EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero) as well as upload references. Users can screen titles, abstracts and full-text.

DistillerSR

Software program for the screening process of systematic reviews. In addition to screening, assists with reporting (e.g., PRISMA) as well as customized reports.

EPPI

It has been developed for all types of systematic reviews (meta-analysis, framework synthesis, thematic synthesis etc) but also has features that would be useful in any literature review.

JBI Summari

Part of Joanna Briggs Institute. It is designed to assist researchers and practitioners in fields such as health, social sciences and humanities to conduct systematic reviews.
 

SysRev

A platform for collaborative extraction of data from documents.