This document provides instructions for saving search histories and setting up alerts in EBSCOhost. It explains that users must sign in to My EBSCOhost to save searches or folder items. Searches can be saved permanently, temporarily, or as alerts. Journal alerts can also be set up to receive notifications when new articles from a particular journal are added. The document outlines the steps for saving searches, alerts, and setting up journal alerts once signed into My EBSCOhost.

1. Saving the Search History or Folder items:
UNDERSTANDING THE SEARCH RESULTS
Once you have signed in, any records added to your
folder while you are still signed in are automatically ATENEO DE NAGA UNIVERSITY
When performing a Basic or Advanced Search, cita- saved until you remove them. To save the search his-
tions are in chronological order, with the most re- tory, you must use the Search History/Alerts tab located
cent articles first. on the Advanced Search screen. JAMES O’BRIEN LIBRARY
Click on the title (underlined and in blue) to see the Once you get to the Search History/Alerts page, click on
complete citation which includes an abstract. Full Save Searches/Alerts. On the Saved Search/Alert page,
you must then save the search permanently, temporar-
text is indicated by a blue link titled “HTML Full
ily, or as an alert.
Text,” “PDF Full Text,” or “Linked Full Text.”
To return to saved items, sign in and go to My Folder
which contains all of your saved information.
If you save the search either permanently or temporar-
ily, then you have completed the process. However, if
you want to save the search as an alert, then you must
enter your email as well.
An alert simply saves your search and whenever any
new records added to EBSCO match your search, you
will be alerted by EBSCO by email that there is new in-
formation on your topic.
Journal Alerts
If you want to be alerted whenever any new articles http://adnulib.adnu.edu.ph
from a particular journal are added to EBSCO, use the
Journal Alert feature. There are a few ways to start a
journal alert, but the easiest is to click on the Publica-
tions button in the green bar at the top of EBSCOhost.
My EBSCOhost See Figure 6 for exact location. Once in the Publications
screen, you can browse or search by title. Once you have
 For those faculty and students doing prolonged re- selected your journal, you will be taken to the Publica-
search or those who simply need to save their work for tion page for that journal or magazine.
a later date will find the My EBSCOhost feature satisfy-
ing.
Click on the Journal Alert link to the right of the screen
to start your alerts. You must then make several selec-
EBSCOHOST
 With My EBSCOhost, users can save searches or folder tions on how you want your alerts delivered: email info, INFORMATION SHEET
items or they can set up journal or search alerts to find length of alert, format, etc.
out when new records from a journal or search appear
in EBSCO’s databases.
 To get started, you first need to sign into My EBSCO-
host. For details on the access of these database contact:
 You can either sign in or create your account using the For Faculty, Personnel,
Sign In/Out link on the left side of the green bar.
THE PERIODICALS LIBRARIAN Administrators
 Be sure to write down the username and password JAMES O’BRIEN LIBRARY
you have selected. ATENEO DE NAGA UNIVERSITY
473-8447 Local 2630
 Once you are signed in, you will see the “My” banner at

2.  To search more than one database, click on the box to
2. For University administrators, faculty and per- the left of each database, then click the CONTINUE
ABOUT EBSCO sonnel simply type your employee ID number as button. (Academic Search Premier is checked by de-
Patron ID and adnulibrary as the password. fault.) Once you have selected a database(s), you are
 EBSCOhost is a database system that offers in- ready to begin searching.
dexing/abstracting and selected full text re-
trieval of periodical (magazine and journal) arti-
cles in approximately fourteen databases.
 These databases have full-text articles for over
5,000 periodicals and indexing and abstracting
for over 8,000 journals, magazines, and news-
papers.
HOW TO ACCESS
1. Visit the James O’Brien Library Website:
http://adnulib.adnu.edu.ph/
p201102989
and click the EBSCO NEW link . adnulibrary
Searching in EBSCOhost
Advanced searching allows the user the most flexibility
CLICK HERE! in performing searches. It provides three keyword
search boxes to separate unique terms or phrases as
well as capabilities to search within specific parts of
each record.
(Note: Each record consists of the citation information,
Choosing Databases abstract, and possible full-text.) By clicking on the Sub-
ject Terms or Thesaurus button on the green toolbar, you
may browse a complete listing of all subject headings
available in the current database.
How do you choose a database?
Basic Search is the simplest and broadest type of search
 If you choose a database from the subject directory, you available in EBSCOhost databases. Enter in appropriate
will go straight to the database. search phrases or keywords and separate them using
Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). Boolean operators
 To search one database, click on the name of the data-
It will prompt you to enter a Patron ID and the allow the user to create an exact search.
base.
Password.