Creating Alerts/Updates on Subjects

Creating Alerts/Updates on Subjects

NLM Databases/My NCBI

1.      From Prior HSL website, select Medline and then PubMed

2.      Click on My NCBI

3.      Set up an My NCBI account

4.      Register

5.      Provide email address

6.      Sign out

7.      To save search, go to Entrez Pubmed

8.      Enter your search

9.      Click on Save Search

10.     Indicate whether automatic to email or whether user will run the

         updates manually

11.     If automatic, fill in the blanks and click ok

12.     Sign in to My NCBI and the searches that have been saved will appear

13.     To delete a search, click on the box and indicate delete

14.     For help, while in My NCBI, click on help or select tutorials to view

OVID

1.      From Prior HSL website, select “More Databases”, then under Quick Links,

         select Ovid

2.      Select savesearch/alert function

3.      Sign up for a personal account

4.      Select from available databases

5.      Construct the search strategy

6.      Select savesearch

7.      Search is then saved

8.      Select type of search auto alert will

OhioLINK

1.      From the Prior Health Sciences Library website, select OhioLINK

2.      Click on Electronic Journal Center

3.      In the box in the upper right hand corner, select Create Account

4.      Conduct a search; Click Add to My Searches

5.      At My Searches, turn New Results Notification

6.      Select notify by e-mail or web feed when new articles are loaded into the

         database

7.      Whenever you are logged in, you may have the search re-run  at that time

Ebsco Databases

1.      From Prior HSL website, select “More Databases”, then A to Z list of OSU databases, select Ebsco and then the preferred database/s

2.      Formulate the search strategy

3.      Select Search History

4.      Directly above the title “search history” find the phrase saved searches/alert

5.      Click on that phrase and a login and password screen appears

6.      Click on “I’m a new user” and the prompt to register appears

7.      Register

8.      Prompt comes up for user name, name & description of alert, email address and designation about how often user wants search run

ISI Web of Science

1.      From Prior HSL website, select, “More Databases”, then under Quick Links, select Science Citation Index, and then Web of Science

2.      Enter your search

3.      After finishing, go to the search history and save the search strategy

4.      Login or register; you must do this in order to have alerts sent

5.      Prompts come up for email address, frequency, etc.