Get more out of Embase by setting up a personal Ovid account (if you do not already have one). Use your personal Ovid account to save searches from any Ovid database, and/or create automatic alerts to have new results emailed to you.
Once you have constructed your search, you can save it:
You can also save your search as an autoalert, which means you can set it to send you alerts by email or RSS when there are new results. Before you save your search as an alert, check that the majority of results are relevant. It is best to only set alerts for quite specific searches — alerts with a high rate of false hits may be more of a hindrance than a help. If you are unsure, please feel free to contact the Wellington Medical library. We are always happy to help with creating alerts.
If you have a date limit in your search, ensure that it is set to Current, rather than to the current year (e.g., use: yr=“2000-Current”, do not use: yr=“2000-2018”). This will ensure your alert continues for subsequent years. If in doubt, remove the date limit.
To create an alert:
Note: if you are re-running a temporary or permanent search, it will add it to any previous searching you have been doing in that session (if you re-run an AutoAlert, you will lose the search history for your current session).
Get more out of Embase by setting up a personal Ovid account (if you do not already have one). Use your personal Ovid account to save searches from any Ovid database, and/or create automatic alerts to have new results emailed to you.
Once you have constructed your search, you can save it:
You can also save your search as an autoalert, which means you can set it to send you alerts by email or RSS when there are new results. Before you save your search as an alert, check that the majority of results are relevant. It is best to only set alerts for quite specific searches — alerts with a high rate of false hits may be more of a hindrance than a help. If you are unsure, please feel free to contact the Wellington Medical library. We are always happy to help with creating alerts.
To create an alert: