Save searches and create alerts
You can create a free account with EBSCO which will enable you to save searches as well as create alerts for searches or document citations. It will also remember your default way of exporting to reference management software.
Creating a EBSCO account
Click on Sign In in the toolbar of the home screen.
Choose the Sign up option below Welcome back
Fill in your details and click on create account.
Search history and alerts
Once you have created your EBSCO account, you will have the option to Save Searches / Alerts above the search history. You can choose if you want to save your search permanently or for 24 hours. If you click on the Alert option you can choose how frequently you want to be sent the alerts and how long for.
- Sign in and click on the folder
- On the left of the new page that opens click on Saved Searches
- You will then see a list of the searches you have saved. Click on Retrieve Saved Search for the one that you want to rerun
- Your search strategy will appear on the screen, minus the numbers of results for each line in your search strategy. To display these, tick the Select/deselect all box on the left of the page and then refresh search results on the right
