EBSCO Discovery Service: Online Resources: Creating alerts

Setting up search alerts are a great way to save valuable time in the research process. Alerts can be created to notify the user through automatic email whenever new search results become available.

Note: Please ensure that you are logged into your personal MyEBSCO account before creating a search alert.

If you are not already logged in to your personal MyEBSCO account, you will be prompted to login or set up a new account. Steps on setting up a new account are available here.

Steps to create a search alert:

1. Run a search in EDS and view the results.
2. Click the menu list at the top of the result list and select the 'create alert' option (see image on the right).
3. If you are not already signed into your MyEBSCO personal account, you will be prompted to sign in.
4. Complete the alert set up form. Assign an alert name, allocate an optional description and select the required frequency options from the drop-down list.
5. Enter the email address of where you wish to have your future search results sent.
6. Select 'create alert'.
7. Your new search result has now been set up. Click close to return to the results page.

Once a  search alert has been created, it can be managed through the Alerts tab in My dashboard.

To access your saved search alert:

1. Click Alerts in the My dashboard menu on the left.

2. Select the Search alerts tab.

3. Click the menu icon on the right from where you can edit the alert, run the alert to view current available search results or delete the search alert.

Journal alerts are a wonderful way to set up notifications to advise when a new issue of a specific journal becomes available in an EBSCO database.

Note: You must be logged into your personal MyEBSCO account before creating a journal alert.

If you are not already logged into your personal MyEBSCO account, you will be prompted to login or set up a new acount. Click here for steps on personal MyEBSCO account setup.

Steps to create a journal alert:

1. Select Advanced search, located under the EDS Carlow and Wexford Campus search box

2. Select the Publications tab.

3. Type the publication name into the search box, choose an EBSCO database from the dropdown menu and select search.

4. Click on the title link from the generated results list to view the publications details. 

5. On the publication record, navigate to the menu icon located at the top right of the page. Open the menu and select Create alert - this will open the journal alert setup options.

6. Set alert parameters and input the email address that the journal alert is to be set to.

7. Select create alert. A notification will be emailed to you whenever a new issue of the specified journal becomes available.

8. Your new journal alert has been set up! Click close to return to the result page. 

Note: It is possible to set up the journal alert to limit to when full text for the specified journal is available. to do this, select Alert on full text only in the Preferences section.  

Once a journal alert has been created, it can be managed in the journal alerts tab in My dashboard.

To access your saved journal alert:

1. Click Alerts in the My dashboard menu on the left.

2. Select the journal alerts tab.

3. Click  the menu icon on the right from where you can edit the alert, view all results or delete the journal alert.