Account Manager

•  Create/edit a user account (3:30) Creating a user account (with free 1 month trial)
•  Purchasing access online (5:25) Purchasing user account extensions or review sharing
•  Inviting a user into your review (1:13) Giving others access to your shared reviews

Back to top

Initial Steps

•  A PowerPoint presentation covering the basic features of ER Web can be found here.
•  Introduction (3:07) Introduction to ER Web.
•  Further information (5:09) A further look at ER Web's features.
•  Setting up a typical systematic review (7:36) Starting a review - the basic steps.

Back to top

Bringing in Search Results / References

•  Importing (3:37) Bringing references into your review, including manually creating an item, importing search results, and search logs.
•  Using the RIS EXPORT utility (4:41) How to convert your search results into a RIS formatted file, to import into EPPI Reviewer.
•  Finding full-text papers -: We cover finding full-text papers using reference management software here.
•  Importing References -: A detailed document on importing references can be found here.
•  Duplicates (3:37) Managing duplicate items in ER Web.

Back to top

Codes

•  Editing codes (1:26) How to add, edit, reorder and deleting codes.
•  Codes - an introduction.
•  Codes and codesets - further information.
•  Importing Standard Codesets - a quick guide.
•  Outcome Codes - for setting up and utilising Outcome codes in ER Web. 
•  Entering numerical and outcome data - more details.

Back to top

Work Assignments

•  Creating reference groups (2:45) Includes assigning work to reviewers.
•  Work Distribution Wizard (4:46) A tool to automatically create coding assignments
•  Data entry modes, double coding and reconciliation (5:04) Comparison between multiple reviewers or working independently.
•  Comparison Reports (1:03) A report comparing multiple coders' work

Back to top

Reports

•  Coding and Quick Question Reports (3:46) Coding Reports and Quick Question Reports.
•  More on the Reports Tab (3:01) Creating Frequency and CrossTab reports.
•  Configurable Reports (4:18) How to create a configurable report, for easier analysis in Excel.
•  Line-by-line PDF coding in EPPI-Reviewer Web (4:22) Highlighting and coding text, to identify analytic and descriptive themes, which can be presented in different report formats including conceptional relationship diagrams.

Back to top

Machine Learning

•  A specific guide to the Machine Learning facilities available within ER Web is available here.
•  A separate document on Priority Screening can be found here.
•  We also have a specific guide to using Classifiers in ER Web here.
•  An introduction to using Microsoft Academic / OpenAlex (auto-updating & surveillance) in EPPI-Reviewer is available here.
•   Further information on OpenAlex can be found here.

Back to top

Evidence Maps and Visualisations

•  Interactive evidence (gap) maps - Introduction (2:01) Using EPPI-Mapper with data from EPPI Reviewer.
•  Creating interactive evidence gap maps (5:09) Creating evidence gap maps with EPPI-Mapper.
•  EPPI Visualiser (7:13) A first look at EPPI-Visualiser

Back to top

Additional Notes

• Confused about exclude codes and the Exclude FLAG? Check out the document on Flags.
   
• Terms Tool - highlight relevant terms when screening 
• Hot Keys - using Hot Keys to select codes
   
• PRISMA Diagrams - creating diagrams of your review

Back to top