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Search Techniques: Managing your results

Consider creating your own personal EBSCO account

Organising your results when using EBSCO databases:

If you're regularly using Ebscohost databases it's worth registering and signing up to create your own personal account within that platform. Then you can keep records of your searches (save your search history) and organise sources you select from results lists into folders you can categorise: 

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Endnote Web and Desktop

  • EndNote is reference management software that helps you organise sources you find when researching. Any student, researcher, or member of staff can use Endnote web (online version). There is also a desktop version that we recommend may be more useful for BU staff or PhD researchers (both versions of Endnote can be synchronised).
  • Endnote also autogenerates reference lists and works with Microsoft Word to insert citations and reference lists. Always check the references that EndNote creates before submission. References are autogenerated from metadata that may be improperly coded. The official referencing style guidelines for Harvard(BourneU) are located here: BU Harvard instructions.