EBSCOhost 2.0 Overview – Alert/Save/Share

EBSCOhost 2.0 provides you with three ways to "keep found things found" in the database: alert, save, and share.

Alert
If you are engaging in an extended research project, and you have designed the perfect search (or set of searches) for locating articles on your topic, you can quickly create a search alert which will email you all of the articles that match your search on a regular basis. You can tell the computer how often you want this content emailed to you, and you can tell it how long you want this alert to continue running.

You can do the same thing with a journal – if you know that you want to see the table of contents of The Jounal of Scandal and Outrage or Calumny and Diatribe Quarterly whenever those journals get published, you can have the table of contents emailed to you as soon as the journal is entered into EBSCOhost's databases. Unfortunately, sometimes the full-text content arrives after the indexing does, so you may get the table of contents of a full-text journal but be unable to click on the full text links for a week or so.

Save
When you're not logged into myEBSCOhost, you can still save articles to a folder, but if you shut your browser window, then the articles vanish. If you are logged into myEBSCOhost, you'll have the articles saved until you delete them. This is why we recommend that users create a myEBSCOhost account and log in whenever they start to use the database. Library research is rarely conducted in one sitting, and it is rarely an end in itself; usually, you want to use the material you find at a later date, often more than once. myEBSCOhost simplifies that.

Share
You can post links to EBSCOhost content that you find useful using the "share" feature and the social networking software you use in other parts of your life. You can post links to Facebook (okay, that probably won't happen much), but also to social bookmarking services such as del.icio.us and Digg.

Please note that the link that you post will not include our "proxy prefix," which tells the computers to "authenticate" off-campus users with a password. On-campus users will not have a problem with this, but off-campus users will be unable to use the links that you post to Facebook, Digg, or del.icio.us.