Executing a Saved Search or Alert

Run a Saved Search

Select the box of the search you want to run and click Run to run a saved search from the Saved Searches page.

Ovid's save-search functionality preserves search strategies, but does not save a record of the databases that were selected when the search was originally executed. When you rerun a saved search, Ovid searches your currently selected databases, not the database(s) that were selected when the search was originally saved.

Rerunning a saved AutoAlert is different. When you rerun an AutoAlert, Ovid offers you the option of running the AutoAlert in currently selected databases, or in the databases that were selected when the AutoAlert was saved.

Run an AutoAlert

From the Saved Searches page, you can run an AutoAlert in either of the two ways:

Manually (as an override of the set schedule)
As a search in the database(s) of your current Ovid session

Running an AutoAlert Manually

Overriding the scheduled run of an AutoAlert:

Select the box of the AutoAlert you want to run.
Select a data set.
Click the Run button.

Ovid provides three data set options:

Since Last Run: Retrieves records added since the last run of the AutoAlert. Ovid has no results to retrieve if the database(s) has not been updated.
Select Update(s): Opens the AutoAlert (SDI) User Limits Page where you select a range of dates from which to retrieve records.
Ovid provides date ranges for each database for a multifile (multi-database) AutoAlert override.
Run in Current Database: Runs the AutoAlert search strategy in the database of your current session.
For this example, we chose to run the AutoAlert in the database of our current session.

Ovid runs the AutoAlert's saved search strategy and displays a status page. Click the Main Search Page icon to see results of the run in your search history.

Ovid does not deduplicate results of manually run AutoAlerts.

Ovid posts new results to your search history when you run an AutoAlert strategy in the database of your current session. You can save an AutoAlert that contains the same searches but that apply to a different database from there.

For more support information and training content, please visit the
Ovid Tools & Resources Portal.

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