Provider: EBSCO

Service name: MyEBSCO / Alerts

EBSCO allows you to set up a personal account. With your personal account, you can save search results, persistent links to searches, search strategies, search alerts, journal alerts and web pages to your personal folder.

To create a search alert:

1. Connect to EBSCO and then select MyEBSCO in the upper right hand corner.
2. Sign in through your institution - University of Arkansas Libraries. 
3. Perform a search.
4. At the top of the search results, look for the three dots menu.  Click in and choose Create Alert. 
5. Choose Subject name for the notification emails.
6. Add a brief description (optional).
7. Choose the frequency of email alerts (default is daily). 
8. Select options for receiving messages whether or not there are new results. 
9. Click the Create Alert button to save.

To create a journal alert:

1. Connect to EBSCO and then select MyEBSCO in the upper right hand corner.
2. Sign in through your institution - University of Arkansas Libraries. 
3. Perform a Publication search.  The location of the Publication Search will vary but usually it is below the search box on the Advanced search screen.  Publication search is not available for all EBSCO databases. 
4. When viewing a publication of interest to you, look for the three dots menu to the right and click it.  Choose Create Alert. 
5. Select options for full text notifications only, or when issues are added. 
6. Click the Create Alert button to save.

You can retrieve your saved searches and alerts and edit and reuse them by clicking the Alerts  item in the left My dashboard menu when you are logged into MyEBSCO. 

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