Search History and Alerts

Search History and Alerts

The Save Search feature allows for 



After you run a search, you can save it for repeated use. Your saved searches are stored in your Bookshelf.

To save a search: 
 
  1. Click the Save search link above your results list, or on the Actions menu corresponding to the search on the Recent Searches page.
  2. Save the search to your My Research account. You’re prompted to sign into your account if necessary.
  3. Provide a required name for the search. Enter optional notes.
  4. Click Save.
To save a search, click one of the following Save search links:

  1. Above your results list
  2. On the Actions menu corresponding to the search on the Recent Searches page
  3. On the Actions menu on the Recent searches tab on the Advanced Search or Command Line Search pages.
The Save search popup displays with two links:
Save just this search: In the Save search layer, enter a name (required), a project code (your administrator can make this optional, required, or not displayed at all) and optional notes. Your saved search will be available on the Searches tab in My Research.
Save recent sets with this search: When you click Save recent sets with this search, the Save Search page displays. The page lists all of the searches you’ve run during your current session. The listing is in reverse chronological order, with your most recent search listed first. If the search you are saving references any previous sets—for example, if your search is s1 OR s3—, those sets (the first and third searches you ran during your session)—are automatically selected for you on the Save Search page. You can optionally select additional sets to save with your search. Enter a name (required), a project code (your administrator can make this optional, required, or not displayed at all) and optional notes. Your saved search will be available on the Searches tab in My Research.

What you can do with your saved searches

Combine searches

Use the controls at the top or bottom of the page to combine and then run one or more of your saved searches as a single precise new search.

Using the controls at the top of the page:
  1. Select the checkboxes corresponding to the searches you want to combine.
  2. Accept the default AND operator, or select the OR operator.
  3. Click Search.
Using the controls at the bottom of the page:
  1. Enter the number (as S1, S2, S3, etc.) corresponding to one of your saved searches.
  2. Enter an operator (AND, OR, NOT).
  3. Enter a second saved search number.
  4. Repeat the steps above to add additional searches.
  5. Click Search.
 

Re-run your search

Each saved search is a link. Click the link to re-run the search and view the latest results.
Important to know — If your set of currently selected databases is different than what you’d selected when you saved the search, a popup containing two links displays:
  1. Use original databases
  2. Use current databases
Click a link to target your search against the databases selected when you originally ran the search, or against your currently selected databases.

Get the link for a search

When you click Get link, a small popup opens. You can copy and paste the URL to a web browser address bar, a web page, or email it to a friend. When you or your friend successfully log in or access ProQuest, the search will retrieve a results list of documents.

Modify your search

Modify a search using the search page (Advanced, Basic, etc.) you used to run it originally.
Important to know — When you modify and then re-run a search, you create a new recent search.

Create and schedule an alert

You'll receive emails with newly published or historical documents that match your search, as they become available in ProQuest.

Other actions

  1. Edit the name of the saved search
  2. View the list of databases the search ran against
  3. Delete the search
  4. Create an RSS Feed to monitor ProQuest for new matching documents.

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