Saving a Search as an Alert

To save a search as an alert:

1. From the Search History/Alerts Screen, click Save Searches/Alerts. The Saved Search/Alert Screen appears.

   (If you have not already logged into your personal account, you will be prompted to log in. Enter your user name and password; or click Cancel and return to the Search Screen.)

2. To save the search as an Alert that can be automatically run, click Alert. The Save Alert Screen appears.

3. Enter a Name and Description for the Alert.

4. To run the Alert against a different database, select the Database from the drop-down list.

5. To select how often the search will be run, from the Update Frequency drop-down list, select one:

• Once a day
• Once a week
• Bi-weekly
• Once a month (the default)

(If you select "Enable RSS notification" below, the search will automatically be run once a day.)

6. To limit which articles are searched, from the Articles published within the last drop-down list, select one:

• One month
• Two months
• Six months
• One year
• No limit (the default)

7. In the Run Alert for field, select one:

• One month
• Two months
• Six months
• One year (the default)

8. Select the Results format to use: Brief or Detailed.

9. To limit EBSCOhost access to only the articles in alert (rather than the entire site), mark the checkbox to the left of this field.

10. In the Alert Notifications section, indicate how you would like to be notified. Select one:

• Enable E-mail notification (the default)
• Enable RSS notification
• No notification

11. Enter your E-mail Address. If you are entering multiple e-mail addresses, place a semicolon between each e-mail address.

12. In the Subject field, enter a brief explanation that will appear in the subject line of the Alert e-mail.

13. Title - you can optionally enter a title for the e-mail. The default value for the Title field is: EBSCOhost Alert Notification.

14. E-mail [From] address - Defaults to: EPAlerts@epnet.com. You can enter a different "From" e-mail address if desired.

15. Select the E-mail format to use: Plain Text or HTML.

16. To have your search string included with your results, mark the Include query string in results  checkbox. To include the alert frequency, mark the frequency checkbox.

17. When you have finished making changes, click Save.