The CIS support team created short video tutorials that are convenient to watch, along with accompanying PDF guides.
- Access and basics
- Layouts
- Folders
- CENTRAL and CRS
- Searching
- ClinicalTrials.gov interface
- Working with records
- Tracking
- Screening records
- Classifier
- Deduplicating records
- Import
- Export
- HarmoniSR guidance
- Screen4Me
- Retractions
What account should you use to log into the CRS? Who has access? - Oct 2017
Video (2:14mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
The dashboard - what the dashboard is and how to add items and remove items - Feb 2018
Video (1:44 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
What is a segment? - Oct 2017
Video (2:17 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Layouts - CRS Webinar - Jun 2019
Video (14:03 mins)
Q&A from New Layouts CRS Webinar (various questions including on the Classifier & deduplication) - June 2019
Video (14:00 mins)
How to add and remove records from folders - how to use the various options for adding records to folders - Feb 2018
Video (2:32 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Working with folders - how to add new folders, rename, share and delete them - Feb 2018
Video (2:08 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Publishing to CENTRAL routines - October 2018
Video (12:22mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Publishing to CENTRAL - the automated duplicates check - Apr 2019
Video (5:03 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Adding included studies to CENTRAL - how to add studies that have been included in a Cochrane review to CENTRAL via CRS - Feb 2018
Video (3:33 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Identifying records in your segment, register and with your Group tag in CENTRAL - how to find records in your segment and register in CRS - Feb 2018
Video (2:48 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Finding records through simple search - Apr 2019
Video (3:34 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Searching CENTRAL - how to search CENTRAL via CRS - Feb 2018
Video (4:20 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
How to search CENTRAL, specialised registers and segments via CRS, and the difference between them - Mar 2019
Video (2:09 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
CRS Search syntax - July 2019
Searching and Cochrane Crowd decisions: what is the Cochrane Crowd search, and how can I apply it to a search in CRS? - April 2019
How to convert a search from CENTRAL via Wiley or CRSO to CRS - May 2018
Video (6:05 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
An overview of the CT.gov interface in CRS, how to search it and import records - May 2018
Video (4:54 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
ClinicalTrials.gov: restoring excluded records - how to restore CT.gov records that you've previously excluded from your CRS segment - Feb 2018
Video (1:03 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Working with records: how records look in the CRS, and the functionality you have access to within the "Fields" tab - May 2018
Video (4:18 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Record listing and field preferences - Mar 2019
Video (1:35 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Viewing and editing Register records - Mar 2019
Video (1.30) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Working with records: an overview of the tabs (other than the fields tab), and what to do about the message "This record matches someone else's, and some fields are different to yours. Click here to see them" - May 2018
Video (4:29 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Adding and removing attachments from CRS records - Mar 2019
Video (1:33 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Global editing records: how to use the global edit feature to change a batch of records in CRS - Jul 2017
Video (5:48 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
How to exclude records from CRS - Jul 2017
Video (3:29 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
What's what on the tracking screen - Apr 2019
Video (6:26 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Finding included studies through the tracking screen - Apr 2019
Video (3:23 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Sending records to authors via the tracking screen - Apr 2019
Video (4:04 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
How to use tracking for older reviews - how to add references previously sent to an author for a review to the tracking screen - Feb 2018
Video (5:02 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Triaging - tools to help you to screen records in CRS - Feb 2018
Video (2:11 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Highlighting text: how to highlight words within a reference’s abstract to help with screening records for inclusion in a review group’s trials register - Feb 2017
Video (5.26 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Using the RCT Classifier - April 2019
Video (6.06 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
De-duplication process in CRS - Dec 2019
Video (14.07 mins)
How to remove a duplicate from a list of references, by merging records together - May 2018
Video (3:28 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Guided import of records into CRS - July 2021
Video (5.46 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Classic Import of records into CRS - basics - Feb 2018
Video (3:56 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Which import filter should I use? - November 2017
Import error: explains why you might get the message “An unusually low number of bibliographic fields were found in the upload process for some fields” - Feb 2017
Video (3:19 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Classic Importing options - importing records into CRS: the different options for new and existing records - Feb 2018
Video (4:10 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Creating import filters - how to create your own import filters in CRS - Feb 2018
Video (3:24 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
How to export records - takes you through the different options for exporting records from CRS - Feb 2018
Video (1:57 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Sending records to Covidence - Jan 2020
Video (4:29) PDF Quick Ref Guide
This video looks at the HarmoniSR guidance, which determines the correct format for records that will be published in CENTRAL - May 2018
Video (7:39 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
Using the Screen4Me service in the CRS - March 2019
Video (40 mins) PDF Quick Ref Guide
How to deal with retractions in CRS - October 2018
Retracted publications (CRS & CENTRAL) - CRS Webinar - Jun 2019
Video (11:38 mins)
Last update: Dec 2021