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Among the many advantages of the new ProQuest Dialog™ platform are the multi-faceted features of My Research. Here, you can organize and save your work in your own personal space. You can create folders in which to store your documents and share lists with colleagues.
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Login with your ProQuest Dialog Username and password. Your initial login will take you to our opening screen.
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To enter My Research, click on My Research at the top of the screen. My Research lets you:
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My Research is your own personal workspace where you can save, store and organize your retrieval, creating folders, annotating records and share results with others.
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This is the My Research screen. Notice the tabs across the top. Here you can view documents you have stored, check search strategies, Alerts and RSS feeds you have created.
Widgets provides a ProQuest search box you can add to your Web page.
The My Research account tab contains your ProQuest Dialog profile.
Import to My Research is a temporary tag that streamlines the transition from DataStar and Dialog, helping you to import saved searches, Alerts StarSearches and RSS feeds into ProQuest Dialog.
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When you are working with documents: why use My Research?
Following a search you can save records to My Research by checking the check boxes to the left of records you wish to select. Then click “Save items to My Research.” The My Research box in the upper right corner will reflect the additions once you click Save. Continue browsing through results pages and save desired records to My Research. Then click on My Research.
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Now, in My Research you can see the documents I've added, and can perform such actions as adding records to folders, annotating individual records, sharing records, emailing them to colleagues, printing them out, getting citations, exporting references and saving them as files.
Store these records to folders. In the right panel under Folders click New folder.
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A dialog box opens. Give the new folder a name and specify where you want to store it in My Research. Click Create folder.
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From the View panel on the right click All Documents, Newly added documents and Documents not in a folder. Notice the Add notes icon on every record. More about adding notes later.
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Add selected records to your newly created folder. If you“Select all items in this list,” Dialog will store the records on this page, for example, the first 20 records.
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Click on Manage Folders and go to your new folder. When you click the folder name, the records appear. Now add some notes to your records. Click Add notes in the first record.
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Enter some annotation and click Save.
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The notes appear, and you can edit them later if you wish.
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The records in your newly-created folder are sorted by date added to the folder. You can sort by publication year in ascending or descending order. Use the drop-down menu under Sort Results By and click Sort (not shown).
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The records now appear in the Cancer-Estrogen folder sorted by publication year in descending order. Next up: the ability to share records in a list.
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Go to My Research to manage saved searches and alerts.
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When you click the Searches tab, you will see recent searches done in the current session. You can save search strategies, modify searches, combine sets, create Alerts and create RSS feeds. The right panel shows how many Saved searches you have.
To combine searches, scroll down to the bottom of the screen and enter the set numbers you wish to combine and click Search.
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My Research lets you store searches permanently. These you can execute upon demand. Perhaps you want to run a search monthly to check new data. Simply go to My Research, click on Searches and then Saved searches. Scroll down and enter the number of the saved search you wish to execute and press Search.
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Use the Alerts tab to manage your Alerts.
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Use the RSS tab to manage your RSS feeds.
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My Research gives you the power to share documents with others.
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In My Research you can share records by creating a shared list. From my documents you can share my findings with colleagues. Select the records you wish to share. Click Share in list. A dialog box opens up and prompts you to give your shared list a name. Check the box that says Take me there now.
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A draft list opens, displaying the title you created. You can add a subtitle and a description if you wish, and click Save list details. Your next step is to make your list public if you wish. To share your list, you must create a public profile. Scroll down and under Sharing, click Create public profile. Fill in your name and check the three Privacy policy boxes. Then click Create Profile. ProQuest Dialog confirms that you have created a public profile.
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Now share your list if you wish. To see your shared list, click My public profile on the right panel.
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Your Shared list appears on your Public Profile.
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You can also add searchable tags to records. Click a title to show the full record. Scroll down and click Add tags. Enter your own identifier terms, separated by commas and click Add. ProQuest Dialog advises that your tags are now available and searchable.
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To view your tags, go to your Public Profile.
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Another easy way to share intelligence gathered in a search is to click on icons to send records to colleagues, create citations and to export your records to RefWorks or another bibliographic management tool.
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You can email citations to colleagues by clicking on the orange envelope icon for email. Enter the requested information and add a message. Specify how much of the records you wish to include. You can choose a citation style and specify the email format, such as HTML or text only. Click the Send email button.
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By clicking the Cite icon, you can get a citation and likewise choose the style.
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You can also export citations directly to my RefWorks account or to another bibliographic management tool. Click the hyperlink to Export directly to RefWorks.
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ProQuest Dialog takes you to the RefWorks login screen where you can enter your RefWorks Log-in Name and Password.
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There is no end to the things you can do in My Research.
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You can create a search widget to reside on your desktop. Follow the instructions on the page.
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Finally, you can manage your account information from the Account page. Use this page to change your password, to change preferences and to modify your Public Profile.