introduction to the ovidsp.ppt

The Search History can be expanded to show the number of hits in each resource. You can use Limits to further narrow you search to a manageable set of results. * Save your Search History by clicking on the link in the Search History. Note you must have My Account open to perform this function. Your search will be saved in My Workspace. * AutoAlerts can be saved which will automatically rerun your search strategy when any of the selected resources are updated. Results will be delivered to your selected venue(s). Because this is a Basic Search, you have the option to include Open Access Results. For a previously created AutoAlert, a message will receive a notification asking if they would like to receive OA results within their alterts. Note also that you may receive your email in EXCEL format. * Select My Workspace from the Navigation Bar. Select My Searches Alerts to view the searches you have saved. * * Notice shading to differentiate OA results from OvidSP results. The bar at the top has a link to return to OvidSP results. Notice you can Annotate OA results, view Full Text, and add to My Projects. You can also manage results in the same manner as demonstrated later in this session. * Use the Filter by function to group your results by narrowing your result set. You can select a star ranking, in this case we will select 4 or More stars. Then further group by Years, using Last 5 years. When you are satisfied with that group, you can Add to Search History. * Notice now we have been able to see how we have grouped our results and added that to the search history. * Now let’s take a look at managing our result set. We can Annotate interesting records by clicking on the Annotation icon included with each record. Note: Annotation requires login to My Account. * Complete the form and either Ok or add another Annotation. * You can Sort your Annotations by using Sort By: on the left. Notice your Annotations are included within the body of the results and the Annotation ico