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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_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
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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
answerIt 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