Search History

The Search History list, located below the search form, includes your searches from the current research session. The list displays the most recent search first. For each search, Search History includes the search terms and the number of search results.

From Search History, you can do the following:

View Search Results

Click the number in the Results column to view the search results again.

Run a Combined Search

Use the Combine box to run multiple searches listed in Search History as a single search. You can use the AND, OR and AND NOT operators with a combined search.

To combine searches, enter the Search History list number associated with each search and connect them with operators. To run the combined search, click .

Example

To find documents the meet the search criteria of both search #1 and search #2, but exclude any documents that meet the search criteria of search #3, enter:

(#1 AND #2)AND NOT #3.

Modify a Search

Click the Edit link associated with the search.
The original search form appears where you can edit the search.
When you are done editing the search, click to run it.

The new search will appear in Search History.

Delete a Search

To delete individual searches:

Click the check boxes next to the searches you want to delete.
Click .

To delete all searches:

Click .

Set up an Alert

To set up an e-mail alert for a search, click the Set alert link.

Create an RSS Feed

Click

to create an RSS feed for a search.

Search History

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