From reference databases, you can usually export your search strategy. It is always wise to export these immediately, both to remember what you’ve done, for later use, and as documentation for your search in the finished assignment. Collect your search strategies and attach them to the document (for example Attachment 1). For all databases, remember to note down the search date and the amount of hits in your documentation.

How to export?

Ovid (Eric, PsycInfo, MEDLINE, Embase):

Click Share Search History – Copy Search History Details
Copy the table into Word
Select the text in Word
Go to “Insert > Table > Insert Table”
Adjust the column width
Tip: You can also use the Share Search History > Copy Search History Link to recreate the search later, or to send it to a student with whom you are working.

Web of Science:

Go to Advanced (link under the search field)
Scroll down to your search history
Click the Export button and select Plain text file
You can then choose which search lines and how many details are exported into the text file.
Copy the search string, date of search, and the amount of hits to where you collect your search documentation.

Scopus

Click Search in the top menu
Under the search field, find Search History and Saved Searches. Remember that you have to be logged in to access saved searches.
Copy the search string, search date, and the amount of hits to where you collect your search documentation.

Proquest (Eric, Sociological Abstracts, Econlit, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) og International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)

Go to Recent Searches (or Saved Searches) and remember that you have to be logged in to access saved searches.
Copy the search string, date of search, and the amount of hits to where you collect your search documentation.

EBSCO (Eric, Education Research Complete, Cinahl, MLA international bibliography with full text):

After running searches during your session, click Recent Activity under My dashboard.
On the Search History tab, check the boxes for the searches you wish to combine or click the top checkbox to select all searches and click the Download icon .
Select the desired format for your download and click the Download

PubMed:

Go to Advanced (link under search field)
Scroll down to your search history
Click on the arrow in the column Details to see the complete search strategy
Copy the full search string to where you collect your search documentation.

Tips:

To work with searches over time, it can be wise to make an account in the database and save the search there.

Saving searches in Ovid (Eric, Psycinfo, MEDLINE, Embase, Amed)

Saving searches in Web of Science

Saving searches in PubMed