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There is one handy tool in novoseek that helps you create email alerts to keep updated and be notified of new papers in which may appear the query previously entered. Indeed, my novoseek users can easily create email alerts any of the searches they perform on novoseek biomedical search engine. These email alerts can be created after a search has been performed and they can be easily edited from your personal account on novoseek. There are a lot of possible uses: simple search for a biomedical concept (eg: a disease such as “asthma“), complex searches that require the use of filters and may require more time to achieve (eg: “Methacholine & Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Clinical Trial articles in Pubmed“), for a journal you are reading regularly (eg: “Journal of the American Geriatrics Society“) or for an author relevant in your field (eg: “Collins, Francis S.“).

1. First, save the search you have performed.

In order to create email alerts, you must first perform a search. When the search results are satisfying and you want to create an email alert accordingly, simply click the “save search and create alerts” button at top of results page. A box pops up and offers you to custom the name for this saved search and to save it.


If you haven’t signed up for a free account on my novoseek or aren’t yet connected, feel free to do so in a few clicks.
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2. After saving the search, novoseek offers you to create an email alert for this very search. Click the “create alert” button.

3. Adjust the sending parameters

You are taken to your personnal account on novoseek in the “alert details” category where you can fine tune the alert details.



The parameters allow you to receive email alerts as follows:

• Once a month, and specify on which day
• Once a week, and specify on which day
• Every Day
• The format: HTML or text
• The report format: Title, Short Fragment Text, Sentences or Abstract, depending on the amount of information you want to read in your inbox
• The number of items you want to read in every email alert
• Specify if you want to receive an email even if there is no new articles for your search query
• The corpus you want the articles to be searched in: Pubmed, Free Full Text or U.S. Grants





4. Create email alerts and managing them allow you to consult your existing alerts anytime and adjust their parameters from your personal account on novoseek.

Simply go to the My saved search and alerts panel on your account. From there, you can modify the names of your saved searches as well as adjusting parameters by clicking on the clock image .

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Users of my novoseek enjoy more features than the average user on novoseek. Those features allow to perform important tasks when one is searching for relevant biomedical information online. Indeed, every person (researcher, medical doctor, medical librarian, student or just interested in life sciences) is willing to make the searching process a nice experience and time-effective task. So far, novoseek allows to check search history, save searches, create email alerts and label documents. We are going to show how to label documents thanks to the option available in my novoseek.

1. Sign in to my novoseek. If you haven’t registered yet, feel free to sign up for a free account now.
2. Perform a search in your area of interest. For this example, we have performed a search for coriza, the scientific name for common cold.
3. Select the article(s) you want to assign a label to (to do so you just need to check the tiny box at the left of the article’s title)
4. Click on Labels in the interface tool bar and:
   • Click on the Label you want to assign to the selected publication
   
   • or Create a Label
   
   We encourage you to create labels such as “print”, “read” and “share” to start organizing the scientific articles and be better organized. Other create labels according to the subject they are investigating. There are no limits to creating and using the Labels in your daily tasks.
5. Now you can see which articles have Labels

6. You can also assign a Label to a document from the very document page

7. You can assign several labels to one single article

8. You can access your labels and the publications you have assigned them from my novoseek. The overview panel lets you consult basic information on labelled documents whereas the Labels category lets you consult the documents assigned per Label, edit them and or delete them

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Boolean logic is a system for logical operations, used in many systems. In novoseek, Boolean operators can be used to combine different search terms. Why is this interesting for novoseek users? The use of Boolean operators will help save time and get better results in the first place. There are 3 Boolean logics you can use in novoseek: AND, OR and NOT. Obviously, you can combine one or several of them, as we will show you in the following examples.

• Boolean AND

Boolean AND is used in novoseek to spot publications where both search terms are mentionned.

Cancer: 1,168,270 results
Breast: 259,863 results
Cancer AND Breast: 166,624 results (view online)
• Boolean OR

Boolean OR is used in novoseek to spot publications where at least one of the search term is mentionned.

Cancer: 1,168,270 results
Breast: 259,863 results
Cancer OR Breast: 1,261,509 results (view online)
• Boolean NOT

Boolean NOT is used in novoseek to spot publications where the first search term is mentionned and the one following NOT is excluded.

Cancer: 1,168,270 results
Breast: 259,863 results
Cancer NOT Breast: 1,001,646 results (view online)
• Combination of Boolean operators

The combination of several Boolean operators allows to perform complex searches at once. It is recommended to advanced users willing to save time and read relevant results quickly.

Cancer: 1,168,270 results
Breast: 259,863 results
Trastuzumab: 2,837 results
Cancer AND Breast AND Trastuzumab: 2,184 results (view online)
Cancer AND Breats NOT Trastuzumab: 164,440 results (view online)
Cancer OR breast OR Trastuzumab: 1,261,631 results (view online)
Trastuzumab NOT Cancer NOT Breast: 122 results (view online)

Filter the results of a biomedical search by publication type is something users are really looking forward to finding on novoseek (as this request on uservoice shows, for example).

This inaugural post for tips pretends to help you improve searches in novoseek and especifically describes how to select the publication(s) type(s) you need to read for your search, step by step.

1. Perform a search in novoseek

In this example, we have searched weight loss and we have the following: 72,877 results.


2. Click on the Bibliographics tab at the top of the left sidebar

Clicking on the Bibliographics tab displays the relevant Authors, Journals and Publication Type to your search. Currently, there are 72,877 results for this search.


3. Look for Publication Type at the bottom of list

When you are there, we recommend to click on the more button to display the whole listing of publication types. In that case, we need to read the Review-related articles to weight loss. It’s the 6th concept in the Publication Type’s.


4. Click on the Publication Type you need to read for your search

Clicking on Review will automatically add it to your current search and display results for weight loss in the intended publication type. Here, we went from 72,877 results for weight loss search to 8,217 for weight loss review articles.


5. Modify your search to your needs

You can modify your search quickly and efficiently. If you want to go back to the results for weight loss, just click on remove next to “review”, click on the Bibliographics tab again and select the intended Publication Type.

We are aware that being able to filter by Publication Type is a key feature. We are working on making it easier for you to find it and perform quicker and more efficient searches. We are open to your suggestions in terms of tips needed in order to help you improve your searches so feel free to comment below.