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Save Search History
A search history is a search query or multiple search queries that you save
to our server or to the hard drive of your computer. There is no limit to the
number of search histories you can save. To save a search history to our server,
you must be a registered user and you must sign in.
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Save on Our Server
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From the Search History page, click the Save History / Create Alert
button that displays in the Search History table to go to the Save
Search History overlay dialog.
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Enter a name (without a file extension) in the Search History Name field. The
name can be a single word or a phrase.
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Enter a description in the Description field. This step is optional.
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Check the Email Alerts checkbox to optionally save your
search history as an alert. Your institution must have a subscription to
alerting to select this feature.
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Save a
Search History as an Alert
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Click the Save button.
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Click the Close button when you receive a message that your
history / alert has been saved.
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Save on Your Workstation
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Click the Save button under the Save to a Local Drive label
to open a dialog box.
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Click the Save button on the dialog box. Note that some
browsers may have a Save File button.
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In the next dialog box, navigate to the folder where you want to store the
search history file.
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You will see the default file name (for example, history.wos) in the File
Name field. You can rename the file, but do not change the extension (for
example, you can rename the file to my_search_history.wos).
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Click the Save button.
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Save a Search History as an Alert
If your organization subscribes to the alerting service, you can save a
search history as an alert. You must have a subscription to Web of
Science Core Collection to save a search history as an alert
The alert automatically searches the last update to the database, and then
sends all relevant results to you by e-mail. For example, if your search history
is on Nanotechnology, the system will send you all new works on this topic.
Note: Alerting is not available for searches that you
created from an All Databases. When you go to the Search History page after
performing an All Databases search, the button is simply called Save History".
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Creating a Search History Alert
You must create an alert when you save your search history. The product does
not automatically save the search history as an alert.
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From the Search History page, click the Save History / Create
Alert button to go to the Save Search History page. Note that you must
sign in to reach this page.
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Select the E-mail Alerts check box.
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Enter an e-mail address in the Email Address field. Use a semicolon (;) and a
space to separate multiple addresses. The default value for this field is your
registration / sign-in e-mail address. You can enter up to 255 characters in
this field.
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Select an Alert type (some alert types
may not be available for certain products). The default value is generally
Author, Title, Source.
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Select an E-mail format (some formats
may not be available for certain products).
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Select an E-mail Frequency
option.
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Click the Save button to save the alert to our server and to
go to the Save Search History dialog. Do not save the history file to
your workstation because you will not receive e-mail alerts when new records are
added to the product database.
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Click the Close button when you are done.
Note: If you see an error message that says "The limit for
the number of alerts has been reached," then your institution has either not
purchased the Alerts feature or you have reached the maximum number of alerts
purchased. Contact your System Administrator about your interest in creating
alerts.
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Update a Search History Alert
You can change alert settings at any time. That is, you can turn alerting on
or off at anytime.
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Click the Saved Searches and Alerts link that appears on the
menu bar at the top of any Web of Science page.
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Select the Citation Alerts tab.
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From the Saved Searches and Alerts page, find the alert that you want to
update, and then click the Edit link.
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Select or clear the On check box. Selecting the check box
tells the product to turn alerting on. Clearing the check box tells the product
to turn alerting off.
- Click the Renew button to save your changes to our server.
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Alerts and Combine Sets
Only the results of the last search statement in a combination search
strategy are included in an e-mail alert. For example, for the alert below, the
results of set 3 would be e-mailed to you but the results of sets 1 and 2 would
not be included in the alert.
Set
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Search History
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#3
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#1 AND #2
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#2
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AD=(GERMANY OR POLAND)
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#1
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TS=(WATER SAME (COPPER OR CADMIUM
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Alert Types
Notify Only
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Notification that this week's results are available. If results
are available, log onto Web of Science and then open and run the search
history. Be aware that the number of results reported in the e-mail may not be
the same as the number of results you get when you perform the search because
you may have selected different database settings or a different timespan before
running the alert.
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Author, Title, Source
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Bibliographic information includes author names, article titles,
source information, document type, language, and ISSN/ISBN. This is the default
setting.
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Author, Title, Source + Abstract
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Bibliographic information and author abstract.
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Full Record
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Bibliographic information, author abstract, keywords, address
information, and publisher information.
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Plain Text
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An ASCII text file.
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HTML
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Hypertext Markup Language. This format is suitable for display by a Web
browser.
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EndNote
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A field-delimited format that can be imported directly into a reference
management applications such as:
- EndNote®
- Reference Manager®
- RefWorks
- Sente
- Biblioscape
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Field Tagged
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A field-delimited format suitable for use with reference management
applications such as:
- EndNote
- Reference Manager
If you use one of these products, we recommend that you select the Field
Tagged format to simplify the import process.
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E-mail Frequency Options
The Frequency options that you see on the Save Search History page will
depend on which product database you have searched. For example, if you are
saving a search history from Web of Science Core Collection, you see
Daily, Weekly and Monthly options. However, if you are saving a search history
from Derwent Innovations Index, you see Each Update and Every 4 Updates
options.
Daily
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Select this option to receive an email if the search retrieves records added
since the previous day's update.
Only available for Web of Science Core Collection and Current
Contents Connect.
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Weekly
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Select this option to receive an email once a week notifying you that new
records have been added to the product database since the date of the previous
e-mail.
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Monthly
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Select this option to receive an email once a month notifying you that new
records have been added to the product database since the date of the previous
e-mail.
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Each Update
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Select this option to receive an e-mail each time the Derwent Innovations
Index database is updated.
Only available for Derwent Innovations Index customers.
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Every 4 Updates
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Select this option to receive an e-mail after every fourth update to the
Derwent Innovations Index database.
Only available for Derwent Innovations Index customers.
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Important Notes
Be aware that if you change the Frequency option after the alert has been
activated:
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You may receive duplicate alerts if you elect to receive alerts less
frequently (for example, change from Weekly to Monthly).
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You may miss alerts if you elect to receive alerts more frequently. For
example, if you change from Monthly to Weekly, the first weekly alert you
receive may not contain all relevant records since the last monthly alert was
sent to you. This gap only occurs once. After you start receiving
weekly alerts, you will not miss any relevant records.
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Search History File Extensions
Remember, the default file name is always history (for example, history.wos).
You can rename the file, but do not change the extension.
Product and File Extension
- All Databases (.ua)
- Biological Abstracts (.bioabs)
- BIOSIS Citation Index (.bci)
- BIOSIS Previews (.biosis)
- CABI (.cabi)
- Chinese Science Citatin Index (.cscd)
- Current Contents Connect (.ccc)
- Data Citation Index (.drci)
- Derwent Innovations Index (.diisw)
- Food and Science Technology Abstracts (.fsta)
- Inspec (.inspec)
- Korean Journal Database (.kjd)
- MEDLINE (.medline)
- SciELO Citation Index (.sci)
- Web of Science Core Collection (.wos)
- Zoological Record (.zoorec)
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Reminder - Register and Sign In
To view your saved searches, you must be a registered user and you must sign
in.
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Caution
You cannot use the following characters in a saved search history name.
Ampersand ( & )
Left angle bracket ( < )
Right angle bracket ( > )
Quotation marks ( " )
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