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Overview
Creating a Journal Alert will produce an alert notification via email each time a new issue for a selected title is made available in a specific database. This feature is available from the Publication Overview Screen for the selected title. EBSCOhost will automatically send an email with an updated list of article titles available for that journal to the specified email recipients.
Setting Up Your Journal Alert Account
Choose the EBSCO database most related to your field by opening any EBSCO database, such as Academic Search Premier, from the Library's list of research databases. Click on Choose Databases. Most of these research databases will have a list of the journals they index that will indicate the database most useful to you for creating a Journal Alert. Open the selected database and click on Sign into my EBSCOhost at the top of the screen. Then click on I'm a new user and fill in the registration form. Once setup, you should login to Sign into my EBSCOhost to add or modify alerts.
Create New Journal Alerts
- Open the EBSCO database that best reflects your interests
- Logon in Sign into my EBSCOhost
- Click on the Publications tab at the top of the screen
- Find the journal title for the alert alphabetically or by doing a browse search
- Click on the title of the periodical to open the information screen
- Click on the Journal Alert link in the upper right corner
- Fill in the form:
- 1. Choose the length of time you want the alert to be active
- 2. Supply your email address and a subject line for the email
- message
- 3. Select the email format your prefer
- 4. Select the link you wish for your email
- 5. Click Save and then Back if you wish to select another
- title
EBSCOhost will now run the search as new issues appear and email you the results.
Review, Modify, or Delete Journal Alerts
- Open the EBSCO database where the Journal Alert was set up
- Click on My Folder on the upper right of the screen
- Click on Journal Alerts to access the edit screen. You can now see a list of your current search alerts. Switch the search alert button to off to discontinue the alerting process. Click on modify search to modify an alert.
