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In this video, we're going to look
at how to save your search results
in an EBSCO database.
When you're doing your research,
it can be very frustrating
to find a great article,
move on to look at another article,
and not be able to find the original article.
We're going to look at EBSCO
because it provides a number
of popular databases here at Ohio University,
including Academic Search Complete
which you can search from right here
on the OU Library's homepage.
So, I'm just going to do a search for
'college students and stress'
to find some articles on that topic.
Search.
And then I can see my search results.
There are over 1,000 items,
so if I started looking through all of them
I could very quickly lose something I found interesting
if I hadn't saved it somehow.
As you scroll through the search results,
you can add items to your folder
by clicking on this link: 'add to folder'
Once you put them in a folder,
they will remain there
as long as you have the EBSCO interface open.
The EBSCO interface does allow you
to search a number of other databases
besides Academic Search Complete.
You click on the 'choose databases' link right here
to see the full list.
It has everything from 'social gerontology' to 'MEDLINE'
to business, communication, philosophy,
many different databases.
So, by checking which ones you'd like to search
you can actually search a number of different items.
But as long as you stay within this interface,
those items will be saved.
I'm just going to close that
because I would like to stay within
Academic Search Complete.
Scroll down, keep looking through the search results.
I have one here about
'proactive coping in regard to stress'.
If you click on the title of the article,
you can also add the item to a folder
by using this folder icon that looks like a file folder.
It's also very helpful when you've clicked on an article
and you want to get back to your search results,
to use the 'result list' button instead of the 'back' button,
it can be an easier way to get back for your computer.
So once you've found a number of items
that you would like to save,
Go back to the top
and you can either go here to 'folder view'
or you can go to the folder icon
here at the top of the EBSCO toolbar
I can see that there are four items in here.
You have to remember that you need to select them
before you can do anything.
So I'm going to click 'select all'
If you'd like to email these items,
you can do that by clicking on the envelope icon
You just need to enter your email address
and you can add a subject,
so you might say 'college students stress articles'
so you know what it is once it comes to your inbox.
One of the nice things is that, over here,
you can choose a citation format
for the article information.
So if I would like to see
the citation in APA, I can choose that.
Scroll down and click send.
You should get this email confirmation
that tells you that the articles have been emailed.
You can use your 'ohio.edu' email address
but you don't have to.
Another thing you can do
is, once you have these items selected,
you can use the 'save' button that looks like a little file
and this will create an HTML file
that you can save to your desktop
and you can actually have a link back to the article.
Although, that may not work off campus
because it won't recognize that
you are an Ohio University user.
One other thing that you can do
is, if you go back and make sure you have
everything selected again,
use this icon here with the green arrow
that means 'export'
and if you use Refworks or any other citation manager,
such as Endnote or Procite,
you can directly export the information here.
So I actually use Refworks,
which is a resource that all the students,
faculty and staff have access to
here at Ohio University.
So I'm going to check that
click 'save', and it is going to open a new tab
and ask me to log into Refworks.
If this is the first time you've used this
you will need to create a new account,
but I already have one.
And it should import those items
into my 'last imported folder'.
If you have more questions about Refworks
be sure to ask a librarian,
we can help you get set up.
But this is a really great way
to keep track of your citations
and create bibliographies.
Back on the library homepage,
if you need help
remember that you can always use the
'ask a librarian' services in this tab here
and we'll be happy to help.