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Personalising your OrthoEvidence Account

 If you’ve signed up to OrthoEvidence you can make the most of your account by personalising it. You can set up your account to easily find content on your specialty and save your favourite articles.

Log in to OrthoEvidence with your username and password.

Set up your Specialty

Hover over the account icon (top right-hand corner). You should now see your personalization options pop up along the top of the screen.

home page showing the personalisation options

Select the My Specialties option. You can then select the specialties you are interested in by ticking the selection boxes. Click Save Changes to save your selections.

List of orthopaedic sub-specialities

You will now be able to see content for your selected specialties in the My Subspecialty Content section of your dashboard.

oe personal dashboard

Save your Favourites

Save your favourite articles so that you can refer back to them easily.

You can save articles from your dashboard to your favourites list. Hover over the article, then click the plus icon to add it to your favourites list.

screen-shot showing options for an article on the dashboard

When you are reading an article you can select the +Favorites option along the top and add it to your favourites list.

screen-shot showing options for an article being read

You will then see your articles in the My Favourites section of your dashboard.

favourite articles on the dashboard

Access OrthoEvidence

Find out more about what OrthoEvidence is from our previous blog post.

OrthoEvidence is not available via NHS OpenAthens username. You will need a separate username / password. Please contact the eresources librarian at c.kent@keele.ac.uk, if you would like more information about OrthoEvidence and to register your username.

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