In order to set journal alerts in EBSCOhost, start by clicking on the "publications" tab in the sub-tool bar.  From there, click on the journal of interest (which are listed in alphabetical order).  Within each journal page, there is a link in the upper right that says "journal alert".  Clicking on this brings you to a page which offers the user the ability to personalize EBSCOhost.  In order to set these alerts as an individual, each user must simply create their own account.  So, at this point, just click on "I'm a new user" and fill in the necessary info.  Once you have done this, you are now logged in as a personal user.  (If you have an account created already, this step is not necessary....just use your existing user id and password that you created in a previous session.)  At this point, you are in  the journal alert section, and should see detail regarding the journal you originally chose.  Then you can fill in the blanks on this page by choosing how long you wish to run the alert, which e-mail addresses to which the system will send alerts, etc.  You must set journal alerts on a journal by journal basis.

 

You can also set up alerts based on searches that you have created, and have the system automatically run your search(es) on a regular interval, and e-mail the results to you.  This is accomplished via the Advanced Search Page.  Once you have run a search in the advanced mode, there will be a blue tab labeled as "search history/alerts".  If you click on this, you can then click on a tab that allows you to "save search/alert" which is where you would select e-mail addresses to alert, name your e-mail, etc.  Please note that the system requires you to login as a personalized user if you wish to set up this type of alert.  Once you have logged in as a personalized user, you will see that the EBSCOhost logo in the upper left hand corner of the pages is labeled as "My EBSCOhost", with you name beneath it. 

 

If you have already created a personalized account, you can log into this as soon as you are into EBSCOhost by clicking just below the EBSCOhost icon in the upper left hand corner where it says "Sign in to My EBSCOhost".  As soon as you are signed in, you can retrieve past search history, generate alerts, etc.  PLEASE NOTE:  As of today, search history only appears in the Advanced Search mode....and searches appearing in this history are only those that were launched while the user was in the advanced mode.  (We will add this functionality to the basic search mode in a future upgrade of EBSCOhost.)