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Online Campus Library Resources

This guide is for students in Online Campus Programs at Adler University

staying current in your field

Tracking New Articles and Books in Your Field

Creating Search Alerts are a time saver for keeping up to date on what's happening in your field!

Instead of performing the same database search again and again to determine if any new articles have been published on your topic, setting up alerts will get new articles matching your search parameters emailed to you.

See Tabs below to learn how to create search alerts in the APA PsycInfo database and Google Scholar.

Creating a Search Alert in PsycInfo (EBSCO)

Step 1: Create a PsycInfo (EBSCO) database Account and Login to MyEBSCO.

NOTE: This account is different than your Adler login used to access this library database--it is a personal account that you create in an individual database in order to save searches and create alerts.

To create a Personal Account in PsycInfo (EBSCO), click MyEBSCO in the upper right of the screen and follow the prompts.

Step 2: Create a search in PsycInfo (EBSCO) that returns similar results to what you'd like to receive alerts about.

Step 3: On the page that displays your results list, click the three dots in the square box.

Then click, "Create Alert".

Fill out the form, indicating how frequently you would like to receive email alerts (recommended: weekly or monthly).

Indication (in red) of location on screen of MyEBSCO, Three dots in box, and Create Alert

 

Creating a Search Alert in PsycInfo (Ovid)

Step 1: Create a search in PsycInfo that returns similar results to what you'd like to receive alerts about.

Step 2: Create and Login to your PsycInfo database account. This is different than your Adler login used to access this database--it is a personal account that you create in an individual database in order to save searches and create alerts. To create a Personal Account in PsycInfo, click "My Account" above the blue toolbar and follow the prompts. 

Step 3: On the page that displays your results list, check the box on the line containing your search; then click: Create Auto-alert

database search screen using the concepts Counseling AND Mental Health AND PTSD

Creating a Search Alert in Google Scholar

Step 1: Create a search for keywords/concepts that you would like to receive alerts about (TIP: Be specific! The more general your search terms, the larger number of alerts you will receive)

Step 2: On the search results page, click: Create Alert on the bottom left side of the screen

Google Scholar search results for the concepts: counseling AND "mental health equity" AND trauma

Step 3: On the Create Alerts page, verify your information and click: Create Alert

To unsubscribe to alerts, click on the link to cancel the alert at the bottom of every notification email.