OvidSP: Create a Personal Account
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Create a Personal Account

When your site administrator enables Personal Account functionality on your site, you may create an account when you log into OvidSP.

OvidSP displays a My Account link in the session bar.

Click the Create a new Personal Account link and OvidSP opens the Create Personal Account page.

Follow these steps to create your own personal account.

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Type your account name and your password.

2.
Re-enter your password for confirmation.
3.
Type your First Name and Last Name on separate text boxes.
4.
Type your email address.
5.
Supply a security question.
6.

Click Create to proceed with the creation of your Personal Account.

  Your password must contain at least 6 characters (combination of numbers and letters) but not be more than 8.

The email address is only used to reset your password when needed.

Create as many personal accounts as you need. However, you must remember the corresponding account names, passwords, and email addresses of every personal account you create.

OvidSP opens the Personal Account Administration Page.

Click the Main Search page link.

OvidSP opens your search session in your new personal account.

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OvidSP stores all searches, alerts, annotations and projects for your personal account under the My Workspace tab.

The next time you login, OvidSP requires that you use the account name and password to access the saved searches and projects in this account.

Access Your Personal Account

Once you have created a Personal Account, you have several ways to login from within your OvidSP session.

  My Account link in your session banner.
  My Workspace tab.
  Save Search History button in the Search History window.
  View Saved Searches button in the Search History window.

OvidSP opens the Personal Account Login Page. Enter the name and password of the account you want to access and OvidSP takes you to its administration page.

Here, you can:
  • Modify account information
  • Get password information
  • Return to your OvidSP session

Click the Main Search Page link, and OvidSP returns to your session in the personal account.

OvidSP makes no distinction between licenses used by Personal Accounts and those used by main OvidSP user licenses.

For more details about Personal Accounts, see:

Modify Your Personal Account and Reset Your Personal Account Password.

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