Title: Customizing Your Omni Account
Course: Library - Library Sandbox > Section: Ontario Tech Library Online: Searching Omni for Books, Articles & More

Once you have logged into your Omni account, there are additional features you can use including automatic saved searches, search personalization by discipline, saving items to a folder, saving searches, and setting up search notifications.

Automatic Saved Search History

When you are logged into your Omni account your search history is automatically saved. You can go back and review past searches with ease under the My Favorites menu. You can find the My Favorites from the drop down menu beside your name at the top right corner of the Omni search screen if you have logged in.

Personalize by Discipline

This feature allows you to personalize your search results by discipline.

You can select up to five disciplines that you would like to focus on in your results list. Simply check the little boxes beside your choices and save them by clicking Personalize it! at the right bottom corner of the popup page.

Save Item Records

You can pin and save item records from the results list by choosing the pushpin icon. These records will be saved in your account for future reference.

You can also pin the item record from the item record itself to save the item.

If you go to "My Favorites," you can view your saved items and add labels to organize your pinned item records. For example, you could label pinned item records Online Learning and keep all the research related to a particular assignment in one place.

Save a Search

Save query allows you to save your search for future reference. A search query is the combination of keywords you used. An example of a search query would be “online learning” AND post-secondary.

Save Search Query Notification

You can create an alert to be notified when new materials are acquired by the library that matches your search query. You will be prompted to enter an email address where you wish to receive email notifications when there is an update to the query.

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