New eresource – Covidence

We are pleased to announce that researchers and students at Cambridge University now have access to Covidence, a collaborative systematic review management tool. You can use Covidence to manage and support the review steps of title and abstract screening, full-text screening, data extraction and quality assessment.

See how it works by watching this video.

How to access Covidence

First time users need to register with their @cam.ac.uk email address and create a new account here. Existing users can sign in via Single Sign-On (SSO). Full SSO instructions for both new and existing users are available on this support page for Cambridge users.

You can also access Covidence via the Databases AZ.

Covidence training webinar

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 1000-1100

Attend this training webinar to learn how Covidence can assist in streamlining your research process – includes a live demo and Q&A, providing an overview of the systematic review workflow and showcases some of our most popular features including settings, importing, title and abstract screening, full-text review, extraction 2.0, export and PRISMA.

Register to attend. If you can’t attend live, register anyway to receive the recording.

New eresource – Building Types Online

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University users now have access to the database Building Types Online, a resource for the study and practice of architectural design.

Entrance to Pflaum House in Falkensee near Berlin (Source: Carsten Krohn)

Building Types Online is based on Birkhäuser’s high international standing in professional architecture books, on the knowledge of the authors and editors who are leading experts in their fields, as well as on the technical quality of the illustrations.

The database offers exclusive and unparalleled, highly flexible and detailed search and browse access to the contents of the Birkhäuser program on building types. All content was written and selected by internationally renowned authors in architectural design. Information on how to search and sort your results is available here.

You can also access this resource via the Databases AZ.