Whenever you see search results that look even remotely promising, you should save them for future reference. The nice thing about Discover@UMSL is that—because you’re already logged in when you perform a search—any results you save will automatically be added to your personal account and saved indefinitely. You won’t lose them when you close your browser window, but you do have to actively save them.
You can save items into the Saved section of your My Dashboard or into a Project that you’ve created for a specific course, class project, or topic.
A Click the bookmark icon above the item’s title.
B After you click it, the icon will change to a solid blue icon to indicate the item has been saved. Clicking it again will remove the item from the Saved section.
If you are doing research for multiple classes, it can be helpful to create Projects. You can either move Saved items into a Project or add items to a Project directly from the results page, bypassing the Saved area of your dashboard.
C To move items from Saved to Projects, open the Saved portion of your dashboard. Navigate to the item you want to move into a Project, click the icon showing three vertical dots, and select Add to Project from the dropdown menu.
D In the Add to Project pop-up box, select New Project from the Choose a Project dropdown menu.
E Give the new folder a name (and a due date or description, if needed) and click Create.
F To bypass the Saved Section and add items directly to a Project, navigate to the result you want to save, click the icon showing three vertical dots, and select Add to Project from the dropdown menu.
G In the Add to Project pop-up box, select either a new project or a project you've already added.
H Inside our Global Warming project, we can see that the first item doesn't have a solid blue bookmark icon, which indicates it does not also appear in the Saved section of our dashboard.
