My Projects Overview

My Projects is a folder management system that allows you to organize your research. You can store the following types of items in a project:

Search Results
Autoalert Results
Search Strategies
Multimedia content, including images, audio and video files
Text excerpts from journals
User-added citations and files

You can add items to a project from many places within Ovid:

Results Display
HTML Full Text Journal Article
PDF Journal Article
Book Chapter

Using My Projects

My Projects can be accessed from My Workspace on the main navigation panel.

	Navigation Panel	Enables quick links to current projects, archived projects and trash. Select a project in the navigation panel to display information about that project.
	Actions Menu	The Actions menu will open a submenu where you can create a new project, a new folder, manually add a citation or upload a file.
	Project Sort	The Projects can be sorted either alphabetically using their name or according to the date they were modified.
	Project Header	Contains details about the currently selected project or folder, including project name, description, and number of items associated with the project or folder. Links are also available to edit and delete the current project.
	Project Tools	Enables you to print, email, export or remove currently selected items on your project
	Project Item List	List of the content of your currently selected project or folder.
	Project search	Enables you to search for keywords on all metadata – including annotations – within the current selected projects, or all projects.

Displaying My Projects

The Project Navigation panel enables you to view and access all available projects with collapsible menus.

Manage Projects

Manage Projects panel lists all active projects and their sub-folders.

The Projects can be arranged either alphabetically using their name or according to the date they were modified

Click the on the Project to expand the view to display its folders.

Click the on the Project to hide its folders.

Archived Projects

To better organize your projects, you may choose to move inactive projects under the Archived Projects panel. Projects can be moved to the Archived panel in two ways:

When you edit the status in Project's information window
When you drag and drop a Project from the Manage Projects panel

Archived Projects can be returned to the Manage Project Panel anytime using the same methods

Archived projects will not appear in the My Projects widget on the Search page.

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