Tip #3 to improve searches in novoseek – use labels to organize your readings

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

Want more Tips to improve your searches in novoseek? Need more help? Just feel free to leave a comment below!

We recommend you to read:

• Your handy my novoseek guide v1.0
• Data organization and interaction
• Why Publication Types matter when looking for relevant scientific literature in Pubmed
• Tip #2 to improve searches in novoseek – use Boolean operators
• Tip #1 to improve searches in novoseek – Filter results by publication type