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TUTORIAL Guide 24. Create Alerts and files in EBSCO

Save all your searches done in EBSCO HOST server ESBCO HOST WILL HELP YOU CREATE YOUR OWN FILES AND SAVE SEARCHES & ARTICLES, LIKE IN YOUR OWN COMPUTER

Go to http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library_databases.phpand click on EBSCO Multidisciplinary- Academic Search Premier Please create your own EBSCO account for the following services: Search alerts, publication alerts, saving searches and articles in EBSCO server. Select the Sign In

Please create your own EBSCO account for the following services: Search alerts, publication alerts, saving all your searches and articles in EBSCO server. Select the Sing In option and after Create a new Account

Complete all the information requested and in write your user name & password in a place you can remember

It will appear your name at the top of the page. Always checked your name to be sure you can save your results. Before saving, first create a new folder, click the New icon

Write in the folder name the course number and name or your subject searches and in notes the terms or the assignment.

To organize folders within folders, use the Move Folders to

You have registered yourself into y EBSCO HOST and opened the file CRITICAL THINKING where you will filed your results Now let’s do the search and apply what we have learned

Your name should remain at the top of your result page. We will search “critical thinking” and learning in the “field AB Abstract”. Click in the Full text box and Peer Reviewed Journals. Select the period from January 2000 to July 2010 and click SEARCH

From the previous search we retrieved more than 250 full text documents. Limit the search with the same words but selecting the TI TITLE in the field option and sort them by relevance

Now start selecting your articles and saving them into your folder of CRITICAL THINKING. Click Add to folder and save them by selecting critical thinking. When you finished filing, please open you folder to verify what you have done

Open your CRITICAL THINKING folder and verify your results, before login out or continue with the alerts assignment

Organize your files as if it is your own computer

Let’s go back to your results, by clicking back and Continue with EBSCO ALERT service for searches and publications

Back in your results, click the alert/Save/Share

Select the option create an alert of your search, and you will be receiving in your email the updates.

Write the email where you want to receive the alerts from your search

THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO CREATE EBSCO’S PUBLICATION ALERTS From search results Directly from Publication list

From Search results, click on the title of the article

From the Source, click on Public Integrity

Click on Alert/Save/Share

After opens the option, select Create an alert and write the email you want to receive the alerts.

Click on the Sign In and write the email where you want to receive the alerts.

Write your email and click Save Alert

To verify it, go to your folder and click on Journal Alert

From the Publication list Let’s learn how to create a publication or journal alert

From EBSCO basic or advance search, select the Publication box

Write the journal title on the browsing box, and click browse, leaving the alphabetical option on.

Click on Alert/Save/Share After opens the option, select Create an alert and write the email you want to receive the alerts.

Write your email and click Save Alert box

After saving the Alert, it opens into a more specific questions regarding the alert

Write your email, the subject and title

After you have completed the form, the system confirms your alert.

Click in your Folder to verify your Publication Alert

See some examples of how to organize your own files

If your are trying to request an alert and receive the following answer It means that you need to register into your EBSCO HOST again

When you leave for a long period of time, EBSCO system log you off

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