Features Requiring a Personal Account
With the My Account function, OvidSP's lets you create a private workspace and provides access to:
- My Projects
- My Searches and Alerts
- My eTOC's
My Projects allows you to save searches, images, links and articles in an easy to access page.
My Projects is accessible anywhere in the application by its link in the header menu area.
Save your searches by clicking the Save History button from the Search History window.
| In saving your searches, the name is required and must not exceed 80 characters. |
For more information on Ovid My Projects functionality, refer to OvidSP My Projects.
Save your search strategy as one of several types of searches from the My Searches and Alerts Page
| Temporary | Saves the search for a period of twenty-four hours, then deletes it. |
| Permanent | Saves the search for as long as your site maintains a valid subscription. Use this option to save and rerun at another time or for base strategies from which you can develop further searches. |
| AutoAlert | Creates a search that runs automatically on a regular basis and emails results to a designated list of recipients. |
| Searches developed in the Books@Ovid database cannot be saved as AutoAlerts. | |
| Expert Searches | Searches about specific topics are made available to multiple users at a site. Expert Searches allow colleagues of the same group account to share search strategies. |
| When creating Expert Searches, include a reference to the database of origin (as in: expert_medf) in the name or comment field of the saved search. Expert searches can be run in any OvidSP database. However, you obtain best results when you use the search in the database(s) for which it was intended. | |
| Expert Searches are created by site administrators, librarians, or other subject matter experts. If you would like more information about Expert Searches, contact your site administrator. | |
| Your site administrator configures the availability of search types at your site. If you have questions or would like to request a search type listed here, contact your site administrator. |
Saving a search from the Save Current Search Page:
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If OvidSP's Personal Accounts have been enabled at your site, you can save searches to a private, password-protected workspace.
For more information about this topic, please refer to View Saved Search and AutoAlerts page.
OvidSP's eTOC feature sends an email alert whenever the table of contents for a journal is updated. You may sign up to receive an eTOC alert for any journal in the eTOC Subscriptions list
Click the My eTOCS link under the My Workspace tab to access Ovid eTOC functions.
Like all functions under the My Workspace Tab, My eTOC requires a personal account for access.
For more information regarding My eTOC, please refer to Managing My eTOC's page.
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