Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Using My Favourites lists when searching iDiscover on a keyword, topic or theme - Jasper's Xmas tips number 8

 If you are doing a literature search on a topic, e.g. Labour economics and crime for a project did you know you can use IDiscover like a database to search by keyword, topic or theme? Then you can use My Favourites in iDiscover to save your searches for later or to help you with your references.












Do a search on your keywords: labour, economics, crime in iDiscover under Articles and online resources












You will see that you get a large number of results, over 14,000 - so it is a good idea to refine or filter your results using the right hand side menus. You could choose Peer-reviewed Journals, Articles, and refine the publications to recent dates e.g. 2018-2022







Then you could start looking at the titles of the articles and deciding if they are useful for your project. As long as you have logged in you can use the little pin symbol next to each article you are interested in reading or saving to save your readings to a list 





Clicking on the pins next to articles collects them under the pin next to your name at the top right hand side of the screen 





Clicking on this pin will then bring up your list of saved readings











From here you can tick the records you want to save, print, email or download and export the reference details by using the three dots at the top to open a menu of options















Or you can sort your list into labelled lists by using the Add Labels link at the top of My Favorites







Once you have added labels they will appear at the right hand side e.g.


Really useful for organising your literature review for your project or dissertation!!!