Knowledge is Empowerment TUTORIAL Guide 24. Create Alerts and files in EBSCO

Knowledge is Empowerment

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.php

and 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

answerIt 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

Documents

Knowledge is Empowerment TUTORIAL Guide 24. Create Alerts and files in EBSCO