One of the easiest ways to save articles that you have found on the library databases is through Zotero. Zotero is a free resource management and citation tool available at Zotero.org that you can use to save and organize articles found on any library database and also on open web resources like PubMed.
You can learn how to install and use Zotero with the help of Sacred Heart University's Zotero Guide.
A quick and easy way to save individual or multiple articles is to email them directly to yourself. To do so in either our QuickSearch or in many of our databases:
To email an article:
1.) First select your article(s). If selecting one or multiple articles, you can do so on your search results page by just clicking the little box next to it. If you are in the record for an individual article, you can skip right to the second step.
2.) Click on the Share icon at the top of the page.
3.) A pop-up box will appear. First, select Email. Then type in your email address of choice, click Send, and the articles should be in your inbox in seconds.
Although there are ways to save searches in individual databases, this requires creating several different accounts, and then remembering to sign into said accounts any time you would like to save anything.
As an alternative, you can record your searches as you go using any kind of spreadsheet software (Excel, Pages, Google Spreadsheet) where you can record information like the date you performed a search, specific terms used, limits used, number of results, etc., as seen in the example below.
You can also make separate sheets in the same file for different academic databases. While this is admittedly time-intensive process, this allows you to save your searches into one centralized location.
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