To save database searches and to turn them into alerts you need to create a personal account.
The CIAP Ovid account will allow you to do this in CIAP Medline, Embase, Emcare and PsycINFO databases.
You can also sign up for personal accounts in other databases including ClinicalKey, ClinicalKey for Nursing, Ovid Discovery and Proquest.
1. Click on either My Account or My Workspace in Ovid Medline
2. LogIn or Create a Personal Account
3. Run the search for the information you want, use the tick box to select the search history, then 'Save' the search. Any kind of search can be saved, whether on an author's name, journal title or a subject search.
4. You will need to give your saved search a Search Name and then 'Save'
5. To retrieve your saved search at any time log back into a CIAP Ovid database and click on My Workspace, then My Searches & Alerts.
Note: this is in very tiny writing in the middle of the display.
6. To run the search again click on the tick box above your saved search and then Run. Remember to save the search again, overwriting your original search, if you want to make any changes.
To turn your search into an alert change the Type from Permanent to AutoAlert. Options are then displayed for how often the alert will be run and sent to you.
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** To delete an alert once it is no longer useful you need to log back into your CIAP Ovid Workspace, and find your AutoAlert searches.**
