Silvi's Tags feature makes data extraction for your systematic reviews super efficient. Here's how to use Tags to extract data from studies: 1. Once you're done with title and abstract screening, you will move on to full text screening. To screen full texts of papers, click on the "Full Text" button in the left task bar. Silvi will show you all the studies that you have included up to this point. It will also automatically retrieve PDFs of open access papers for you. Select a PDF you want to screen and click on "All Tags" button in the top-right corner. Then click on "Add new." Silvi lets you create three types of tags: Text, Numeric, and Category. To create a tag for textual data, select "Text" and choose title for your tag. Click on "Save," and your tag will be created. Highlight the relevant text, select the tag, and the text will be tagged. 2. Once we have created a tag, we can use it on multiple or all papers. In the example below, we select another paper and tag its o

How to add collaborators to a systematic review project in Silvi: Most systematic literature reviews require a team effort. Here's how you can add collaborators to your projects in Silvi: 1. Open a project in Silvi and click on the "Project" button in the bottom-left corner of your screen. Click on "Collaborators" and then "Add user." Enter the email address of your colleague and click on "Add user." Your colleague will be added as a collaborator. You can add multiple collaborators this way. 2. Once you have added collaborators, you can choose if you want them to review titles/abstracts and/or full-text articles. You can also make them the role of a Resolver if there is a conflict regarding a certain paper. 3. You can also assign a certain number of papers to a collaborator. Click on "Assignment" and then toggle "Enable assignment." Choose how many studies you want to assign to a specific collaborator. Click on "Save changes" and then "Assign studies to users." 4. When yo

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How to use filters in Silvi to speed up your screening process: 1. In the top-right corner of the left column, you will three buttons. The left most button is for filters. Click on it and you will be shown three different classes of filters: Decisions, Your Work, and Suggestions. Under "Decisions," you will see four filters: Included, Excluded, Conflict, and Not Screened. The "Include" and "Exclude" filters here will show you decisions taken by anyone in your project. For example, if you click on "Included," it will show you all the studies that have been included by anyone in your project. Similar is the case with the "Exclude" filter. If you select this filter, it will give you a drop down menu with all the different exclusion criteria you have specified. You can filter studies by a single exclusion criterion, multiple criteria, or all exclusion criteria. If you and your colleagues have a conflict about including or excluding certain studies, you can see all of them by click

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Silvi makes it super convenient to access abstracts and full length papers for your systematic reviews. When you import studies into Silvi, it will always try to retrieve abstracts and full texts of open access papers. On rare occassions, it may not be able to find the abstract of a given papers. In that case, you can easily access the the paper by clicking on it DOI. Here's a quick guide on how to do it: 1. Sometimes when you import a paper into a project, its abstract might be missing. While Silvi will do its best to retrieve abstracts of as many papers as possible, sometimes you might be missing an abstract or two. If that happens, you can click on the DOI on top of the title of the paper. This will open the paper in a new tab. 2. Copy the abstract of that paper and go back to Silvi. Click on "Edit" and scroll down a little. Paste the abstract in the "Abstract" field and click on "Save." Your abstract will be added. 3. You can also use the DOI feature to download papers w

How to screen studies with AI in Silvi Silvi's AI feature can help you speed up your screening process. Here's how: 1. Start by creating a new project and importing studies from PubMed, ERIC, or Open Alex. You can also import studies using an RIS file. In this example, we we import 6,000+ studies from PubMed. Click on "Start screening" once all studies have been imported into Silvi. 2. Screen a few studies. When you click on the red "Exclude" button, it will ask you for exclusion criteria. Specify your exclusion criteria and hit Enter/Return. The study will be excluded and the specified criteria will be shown in the column to the right of your screen. 3. Click on the left-most button on the top bar. This will give you AI screening options. Enter a description of your project. The more precise you can be, the better the AI prediction. Under the description, you will see "Exclusion criteria." The exclusion criteria you already added will be show here. Open one of the criteri

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Screening papers for your systematic review takes a lot of time and labor. Silvi lets you screen papers in bulk to make your systematic review process efficient without compromising on quality or rigor. Here's a quick guide on how to bulk screen papers in Silvi: 1. Start by importing papers into a project in Silvi. Then click on the -hand-like button on top of the left column. This will enable you to select multiple studies using mouse clicks or Shift + Down Arrow. As you select multiple studies, their abstracts will appear on your screen. You can read through the abstracts and if you find them relevant to your project, you can include them all by clicking on the green "Include all" button. If you want to deselect a study for some reason, simply click on the cross in the top right corner of its abstract and it will be deselected. 2. You can also exclude studies in bulk using the bulk-screening function. Click on the hand-like button and select multiple studies. To exclude them

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