The bulk PDF Import tool is a premium feature available on all paid and Cochrane reviews that enables you to upload all of your full text review PDFs at once.

To utilise the tool, follow the three steps below.

Step 1: Export full text review reference list from Covidence.

A. From your review's summary folio in Covidence, go to the Consign studies tool to the correct-mitt side of 'Review Summary.'

B. Select 'Full text review' under 'Stage' and so selection EndNote.

C. Click 'Consign' and download the file from the 'Contempo exports' list below.

Step ii: Import the references into EndNote, Zotero, or Mendeley and link associated PDFs to the references.

A. Import the references to your selected reference manager.

  • Tip: For Endnote users, cull the Import Option for Reference Manager (RIS).

B. Detect the PDFs and attach them to the respective reference.

  • This tin can be washed manually, or by using automated find full text feature available in many reference managers.
  • Now is a good time to make sure that all of your associated PDFs are stored in one location, or consider using an automatic observe-PDF feature where PDFs are automatically filed past your reference manager in a programme-specific directory. Doing so will make Footstep 3E much easier!

C. Use your reference managing director to rename the PDFs fastened to the references.

  • Tip: Use Championship-Year formatting for best performance

Pace 3: Export the references from your reference manager and import into Covidence.

A. Export the list of references from the reference manager in EndNote XML format.

  • Tip: Information technology's helpful to have the XML file just incorporate the references that will have PDFs uploaded in Covidence, as the organization may become 'clogged' if an entire reference library is imported and so very few PDF imports follow.
  • Tip: if y'all're using EndNote, select "all fields" when exporting.

B. Navigate to your review summary page on Covidence and click on the 'Full text screening' section.

C. Click 'go along,' and so the 'Bulk upload PDFs' push.

D. Upload your exported XML file by dragging it to the screen or selecting the file via the 'select file' push.

East. One time the file has processed, you will encounter two numbers: the number of studies matched against your full text screening list (left), and the number of studies which besides had a PDF fastened (right).

Now click the blueish 'Select files...' button in the grey box and select the PDFs associated with your references from your computer.

  • Tip: EndNote automatically stores PDFs in private folders. To avoid having to individually open each of these folders, search for the extension .pdf while in your library'south PDF folder. Yous can besides apply a binder merger program.
  • Tip: If you're using Windows, blazon * into the search bar in explorer to automatically view all sub-folder contents.
  • If you are using EndNote, the precise directory will be specific to your computer and to your EndNote settings, only typically it is somewhere like Documents >> My EndNote Library.data >> PDFs.

F. The PDFs volition at present be uploaded and automatically attached to the appropriate reference. They may have a couple of minutes to announced in your review.