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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.
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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.
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
Let’s go back to your results, by clicking back and Continue with EBSCO ALERT service for searches and publications
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
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.
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.
After saving the Alert, it opens into a more specific questions regarding the alert
After you have completed the form, the system confirms your alert.
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