Saving your Discover searches
If you’re using our Discover service to find journal articles you might find yourself having done a search and found some really good results but forgotten to log in to your Discover account. You might even remember from a skills session with one of the Academic Liaison team that if you’ve not logged into your account before you do a search your results will only be there for that session and will then disappear! Here’s a way to save your results if you haven’t logged into your Discover account.
You might be scratching your head wondering how you can do this. If you are in Google Chrome all you need to do is to click on the Customize and Control Google Chrome stack of dots on the right-hand side of the toolbar
Then hover over Bookmarks in the drop down list. A window will pop up on the left-hand side with some choices. Click on Bookmark this page…
Chrome will automatically name your book mark with the search terms you have used in your Discover search. Click on Done to save your search list.
You can apply the same principle if you want to bookmark individual articles from your search results as well. Just click the link to the article from the search list so you go into the article. Next click on Customize and Control Google Chrome on the toolbar. Then hover over Bookmarks in the drop down list. Click on Bookmark this page… Chrome will automatically name your bookmark with the title of the article from Discover. Click on Done to save your search list.
If you go onto your lap top or PC later and run a search on Discover, then login to your Discover account in the Chrome browser you will be able to get to your Bookmarks and you’ll find each one listed. After that click on the link to get straight there.
Take a look at our Study Skills Guides on Finding and Evaluating Information for more tips on finding material and on searching plus insight on how to weigh up the value of the information you find.