It is essential to document your search journey, record at each stage especially saving your final searches. This is essential if you are required to use a PRISMA flowchart to demonstrate your search strategy.
You will also want to save results especially articles or items which you intend to include in your literature review and to aid your referencing.
Databases provide the option to create a personal account: requiring you to either sign in, create or register an account. These details may differ from your domain username and password and will be unique to you.
Personal accounts provide access to more functionality: ability to create alerts, save searches and save individual or batches of results.
Results can also be exported from a database to reference management software such as RefWorks. These tools help you to create reference lists/bibliographies or manage duplicate results.
Find out more about using Refworks, including our help video to get started.