Now that you have your My EBSCOhost account, you can save your favorite searches or you can have email alerts sent to you when new articles are added to the database that meet your search criteria.
First you need to login to My EBSCOhost & you need to perform a search.
SAVE SEARCHES/ALERTS
From the Search History/Alerts tab, click Save Searches/Alerts. Enter a Name and Description for the search. select one of the following: Saved Search (Permanent), Saved Search (Temporary 24 hours), or Alert.
Search Alerts. If you select Alert, additional fields are available: you can run the Alert against a different database, select how often the search will be run; limit how far back the articles are searched, and how long the alert will be in effect. In Email Properties, enter your Email Address, enter a brief subject line for the Alert email, select the Email format to use: Plain Text or HTML, and the email Results format to use: Brief or Detailed, etc.
You can retrieve your saved searches and alerts and edit and reuse them.
RETRIEVE SAVED SEARCHES
From the Search History/Alerts tab, click Retrieve Searches. If you currently have search history open, you are prompted to save your current search. If you proceed without saving, the retrieved search appears and your current search is cleared. To retrieve a search from the Saved Searches List, click on the Retrieve Saved Search link.
When you have finished making changes, click Save.
JOURNAL ALERTS
If you want to keep track of additions in the database for a specific journal, click on Publications (green bar on top of page below Search tabs). Search for the desired journal and click on the title to enter the record, click on the Journal Alert link (upper right side of box) and fill out the necessary information (similar to search alerts).
When you have finished making changes, click Save.
