Create a comprehensive list of your publications

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Create a comprehensive list of your publications

• Helena VonVille
• June 29, 2004

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Selecting appropriate databases

• From the SPH Library home page, go to online
  databases
• Click on E
• Select Ebsco- All Academic Databases

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Search multiple Ebsco dbs

• Access Ebsco- All Academic Databases
• Select appropriate databases for your search

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Set up your search

• Enter your name on the first line
• Au last_name first_name
• Change and to or.
• Enter your name
• First line use
• au lastname firstname
• Second line use
• au lastname firstinitialmiddleinitial

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Set up your search (contd)

• Do you have a common name?
• Enter terms representative of the kind of
  research you do
• Notice the use of or and and
• Combine lines 1 and 2 using or to find all
  articles either variation of the name
• Use and to add Line 3. Notice that all of the
  terms on Line 3 use or to combine them
• (all of the wendell taylor articles) and (all of
  the exercise articles)
• All citations must have both elements

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Reviewing the results

• Add items to the folder to print or save in your
  citation manager program
• Be certain you have a complete list of your
  articles!

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After reviewing

• After viewing all citations, click on Folder has
  Items
• To save searches or set up an alert, click on
  Sign In to My EBSCOhost

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After reviewing (contd)

• Print, save or e-mail citations to yourself from
  this screen

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Setting search alerts

• Do you have articles in press?
• Set up a search alert to be certain you have most
  current citation for your CV
• Do you have an ongoing research project?
• Set up a search alert to be certain you have most
  current research for your project

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Search alerts (contd)

• To save searches or set up an alert, click on
  Sign In to My EBSCOhost

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Search alerts (contd)

• Click on Im a new user

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Search alerts (contd)

• Complete the registration form
• For security, dont use your SPH or Blackboard
  password!

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Search alerts (contd)

• Once you have your search set up, click on Search
  History/Alerts

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Search alerts (contd)

• Click on Save Searches Alerts
• Delete searches that you do not want to include
  in search alert

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Search alerts (contd)

• You will need to set an alert for each database
• Give each one meaningful name!
• Click on Alert radio button

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Search alerts (contd)

• Specify database for the alert
• Set the frequency to run the alert

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Search alerts (contd)

• Complete other information
• Use HTML as e-mail format

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Search alerts (contd)

• Alerts look like this

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Thank you!

• Questions? Contact Helena VonVille at
  713-500-9131 or Helena.M.VonVille_at_uth.tmc.edu