Explore: Finding books, journals and more

If you are signed in, you can save a query by clicking the 'Save query' link, which appears at the top of the results list.

You can access your saved and session queries by clicking the 'Search history' option from the login menu.

This area contains the following folders:

• Search history: this folder lists all of the queries that you have performed in the current session

• Saved searches: this folder lists all of the queries and alerts that you have saved

You can run a saved query yourself, or you can set it as an alert that runs automatically at scheduled times and sends you new results by e-mail.

An alert is a process that runs your query automatically at scheduled times and sends you new results via e-mail.

To view the list of alerts, click the 'Saved searches' tab. To configure an alert for a saved query, click the alarm bell icon next to that query. You will be alerted by email when new results are available for that search query. 

Syndicated content, otherwise known as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), is a way to distribute information from web sites. For example, using RSS, a news site or a blog can automatically feed its news articles or entries to a group of subscribers.

RSS feeds in Explore are used to notify you of new items found by the query. RSS feeds can be activated from either the search results or the Saved Searches tab. All you need is to have an RSS reader installed on your computer.

If your browser supports RSS, click the RSS button. A window from which you can subscribe to the RSS feeds opens. Follow the instructions in the window. 

If your browser does not support RSS, right-click the RSS button, copy the URL, and paste it into the RSS reader.