EPPI Reviewer 6 is the latest version of our software, designed to run on any modern web browser and across web-enabled devices such as smartphones or tablets - useful for screening on the move!
Most of our resources are now in the form of brief instructional videos and short documents covering particular functions of the software. Our ER 6 playlist can be found here. (You can view the videos with subtitles in the language of your choice.)
If you cannot find the answer to your query in these resources, just email eppisupport@ucl.ac.uk - providing your review ID number where relevant (or user ID, if the query is regarding your account).
You will also find a direct email link in EPPI Reviewer itself; this will automatically start a new email, detailing which tab of EPPI Reviewer you were using and which review. (There are also brief, context sensitive, help notes available within the software.)
A PowerPoint presentation covering the basic features of ER 6 can be found here.
A brief introduction to ER 6 can be seen in the following presentation -:
- Introduction (3:07) Introduction to ER 6.
- Further information (5:09) A further look at ER 6's features.
- Setting up a typical systematic review (7:36) Starting a review - the basic steps.
- Importing (3:37) Bringing references into your review, including manually creating an item, importing search results, and maintaining a search log.
- Duplicates (3:37) Managing duplicate items in ER 6.
- Editing codes (1:26) How to add, edit, reorder and delete codes.
- 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
- 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 6 (4:22) Highlighting and coding text, to identify analytic and descriptive themes, which can be presented in different report formats including conceptional relationship diagrams.
- Interactive evidence (gap) maps - Introduction (2:01) Using EPPI-Mapper with data from EPPI Reviewer.
- Creating an interactive evidence gap maps (5:09) Creating evidence gap maps with EPPI-Mapper.
- EPPI Visualiser (7:13) A first look at EPPI-Visualiser
- Zotero Integration (7:13) Linking reviews to reference libraries, including bulk import and export of refs with PDFs. (A transcript is available here.)
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Machine Learning in EPPI Reviewer 6
A specific guide to the Machine Learning facilities available within ER 6 is available here. A separate document on Priority Screening can be found here. We also have a specific guide to using Classifiers in ER 6 here.
An introduction to using Microsoft Academic / OpenAlex (auto-updating & surveillance) in EPPI-Reviewer is available here. Further information can be found here.
The Clustering tool, which uses text-mining and hierarchical organisation to automatically code references, is documented here.
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Additional Documentation
- Importing References -: A detailed document on importing references can be found here.
- Finding full-text papers -: We cover finding full-text papers using reference management software here.
- (For using Google Scholar via institutional access, please see this document.)
- Confused about exclude codes and the Exclude FLAG? Check out the document on Flags.
- Linked Items - multiple papers covering the same study, or similarly related.
- 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 6.
- Entering numerical and outcome data - more details.
- Terms Tool - highlight relevant terms when screening
- Hot Keys - using Hot Keys to select codes
- PRISMA Diagrams - creating diagrams of your review
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Training Materials & Webinars
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You can also access our instructional videos via our 
channel here. You can view videos with captions in your chosen language.
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