Help: Saved Searches

• What is the Saved Searches page?
• Running a search
• Modifying a search
• Deleting a search
• Is there a limit to the number of searches I can save?
• Adding a note to a saved search
• Logging out

What is the Saved Searches page?

The Saved Searches page lists all the searches you have saved using the Save search terms to My Archive link on the results or Search History pages. It allows you to run searches again, annotate them, modify them or delete them from your list.

Article searches and journal searches are stored on separate Saved Searches pages. Click the Article Searches/Journal Record Searches links at the top of the page to switch between the two lists.

Note that only the terms of your search are saved, not the results of the search itself.

Each entry in the list consists of:

• a number to indicate the position of a search in the list
• the terms that make up your search
• a Modify Search link
• a Save search terms to My Archive link.
• the number of results retrieved by the search.

Running a search

Click the underlined search terms for the search you want to run.

The results of the search will be displayed on the results page.

Modifying a search

You may want to change elements of a search to widen or narrow the scope. Instead of having to enter your search terms all over again, you can use the Modify Search link.

Click the Modify Search link corresponding to the search you want to alter.

The search page, along with all the search terms you originally specified, is displayed.

Edit the terms you want to change and click the Search button to run the search with your revised terms.

Deleting a search

Click the Delete search link corresponding to the search you want to remove from the list.

Is there a limit to the number of records I can save?

Periodicals Archive Online allows you to save 400 searches. If you already have 400 records saved and you click the Save to My Archive link, you will be shown the list of the searches you have saved and asked to delete some before you can add new ones.

Your new search will be added to the list at the top.

Adding a note to a saved search

You may wish to append an explanatory note to a saved search entry. Once you have created a note you can then view, edit, or delete it at any time.

• Click the Add note link for the relevant saved search entry.
• A Notes page opens.
• Type in your text.
• Click the Save button to save your note, or click the Delete note link to remove your note.
• An Edit Note link appears for the relevant saved search entry after a note has been created. Click the Edit Note link to edit or delete an existing note.

Logging out

Your saved searches are one of the access controlled features of Periodicals Archive Online, so that only the searches you save are added to the list.

To ensure that no-one else uses your saved searches whilst you are away from your computer, we recommend that you log out from the Saved Searches page when you have finished using it. To do this click the Log out of My Archive link at the top of the page.