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HelP: Saving & Re-executing Electronic Journal Center Searches

Registering for Email Notification

1. Go to the Electronic Journal Center. Click Register for E-mail Notification at the bottom of the EJC Homepage.

2. Fill out the registration form, and then click the Register Me button.

3. If registration was completed correctly, you will receive a Registration Confirmation page. Click where directed on the Registration Confirmation page to enter the EJC.

4. In the Connect to dialog box, enter your newly created user name and password, and then click OK.

Setting Up Account Preferences

5. You will return to the EJC homepage. In the top menu bar, click Search.

6. In the default search form, click My Settings.

7. Make changes, if necessary, to the default settings. For example, the Default search form was changed from Simple to Advanced and the Automatic search frequency was changed from Daily to Weekly. Then click the Save the settings button.

8. You will receive a Settings Confirmation page. Click Search.

Creating a Saved Search

9. Enter your search strategy in top half of page. Select search limits in bottom half of the page. Select an appropriate journal category. To have new articles sent to you each week on a particular topic, select Limit Dates to In the Past and then select Weekly. This date will correspond to how frequently you want the search to be run (this parameter will be set in step 11). When finished, click the Search Now button.

10. The system will display a Search Results page. Click the Save Search link.

11. In the Save Search page, enter a search name (required) and description (optional). Make necessary changes to other default settings; for example, check Automatically write over and Run search on a regular basis and select Weekly as the Search frequency. Click the Save this search button.

12. You will receive a confirmation page indicating that your search was successfully saved.

13. To receive search results in your email, just sit back and wait a week or whatever amount of time you set as your search frequency. They will come!

Subsequent Visits to the EJC

14. During subsequent visits to the EJC, click the My Login link to open the Connect to dialog box and log into your saved searches account.

15. In the Connect to dialog box, enter your user name and password, and then click OK.

16. You will return to the EJC homepage. In the top menu bar, click Search.

Re-executing/Running, Editing, Suspending, or Deleting Your Saved Searches

17. The system will display the Search Menu page.At this point you can:

  • Create a new search and save it.
  • Change My Settings (see step # 7).
  • View your Search History (searches you have run in the past , but not necessarily saved)
  • View your Saved Searches

Click the Saved Searches link.

18. The system will display a list of your saved searches. For each search saved you can:

  • Run the search
  • Edit the search
  • Suspend the search (great when you go on vacation)
  • Delete the search

Click the Delete link to remove this saved search from your account.

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