TUTORIAL
Guide 24. Create Alerts and files in
EBSCO
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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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Go to
http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_li
brary_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
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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
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Complete all the information requested and in write your user
name & password in a place you can remember
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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
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Write in the folder name the course number and name or your
subject searches and in notes the terms or the assignment.
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To organize folders within folders, use the Move
Folders to
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Open your CRITICAL THINKING folder and verify your
results, before login out or continue with the alerts
assignment
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Organize your files as if it is your own
computer
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Let’s go back to your results,
by clicking back and
Continue with EBSCO ALERT
service for searches and
publications
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Back in your results, click the
alert/Save/Share
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Select the option create an alert of your search, and you will
be receiving in your email the updates.
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Write the email where you want to receive the
alerts from your search
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THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO
CREATE EBSCO’S PUBLICATION
ALERTS
•From search results
•Directly from Publication list
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From Search results, click on the title of the
article
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From the Source, click on Public Integrity
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Click on Alert/Save/Share
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After opens the option, select Create an
alert and write the email you want to
receive the alerts.
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Click on the Sign In and write the email
where you want to receive the alerts.
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Write your email and click Save Alert
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To verify it, go to your folder and click on
Journal Alert
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From the Publication list
Let’s learn how to create a
publication or journal alert
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From EBSCO basic or advance search,
select the Publication box
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Write the journal title on the browsing box, and click
browse, leaving the alphabetical option on.
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Click on Alert/Save/Share After opens the option,
select Create an alert and write the email you want to
receive the alerts.
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Write your email and click Save
Alert box
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After saving the Alert, it opens into a more
specific questions regarding the alert
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Write your email, the subject and title
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After you have completed the form, the
system confirms your alert.
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Click in your Folder to verify your
Publication Alert
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See some examples of how to
organize your own files
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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
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When you leave for a long period of time,
EBSCO system log you off
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