Make a research folder - stay organized and save time

Most article databases let you create lists or folders of articles to save, print out, or email to yourself - basically, to keep yourself organized.

Here's how to do this in EBSCOhost databases.

Go to the library homepage at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu (if you open this link right now, it'll open in a new window).

Choose Databases from the Quicklinks list.

This will work with any of the databases we get from EBSCOhost.  If you're not sure which one to use, Academic Search Premier is a great starting point.

(If you're off-campus or using wireless you will be asked for a login - just enter your ONID information)

Do some searches.  When you find articles that you want to keep, add them to your folder by clicking the Add to Folder icon in the search result list.  If you change your mind, click the folder icon again to remove the article.

As soon as you add something to your folder, an area labeled "Folder has items" will appear on the right side of your screen.  You can see what is in your folder there.

You can keep doing searches, and keep adding items to your folder.  When you're done, you can save your folder to your desktop, print it out, or (and this is what you will want to do most of the time) email the folder to yourself.  When you email to yourself, you can use the same trick that you would use with a single article to tell the database which citation style you want to use - this will save you time later when you create your works cited list.

Once you get out of EBSCOhost, your folder will disappear.  If you want to save it permanently, so that you can access it from any computer with an Internet connection, all you need to do is create a My EBSCOhost account.  This makes sense if you:

• Regularly work on more than one computer.
• Don't want to clog up your email, or jump drive.
• Want a backup of your research work, in case something goes wrong.

This post will show you how to do that - Save your research online with a My EBSCOhost account.

If you have questions, contact me (anne-marie.deitering AT oregonstate DOT edu).

Good luck!