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Overview
EBSCOhost Search Alert feature automates the process of checking for new results from a specific search. Once a user has created a Search Alert, the process of running it at specific intervals and delivering the new results via email to the user is handled automatically.
Setting Up Your Saved Searches 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 indexes will have a list of the journals they index that will indicate the database most useful to you for creating a Saved Search. 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 set up, you should login to Sign into my EBSCOhost to add or modify Saved Searches.
Create Search Alerts
- Open the EBSCO database that best reflects your interests
- Logon in Sign into my EBSCOhost
- Choose Advanced Search
- Enter and run your search
- Click the tab Search History/Alerts above the results list
- Click the link Saved Searches/Alerts above the summary box
- Fill in the form:
- 1. Give the saved search a Name and a Description
- 2. Choose to save the search temporarily, permanently, or
- as an alert to be run at intervals and for the duration you
- specify. Click Save
- 3. Supply your email address, a subject line, and the email
- format your prefer
EBSCOhost will now run the Saved Search at the requested intervals and email you the results.
Review, Modify, or Delete Saved Searches
- Open the EBSCO database where the Saved Search was set up
- Click on My Folder on the upper right of the screen
- Click on Saved Searches 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.
