Thursday 24 September 2009

Setting up personal EBSCO logins

We don't get many comments, and even fewer that are publishable (most being along the lines of ("boo! you stink!"). A comment was left asking about saving articles to folders on EBSCO databases, so material can searched for at one location and marked for retrieval at another location - so you don't have to perform the same search twice. Your wish is our command.
When you access an EBSCO database you see a screen like this. On the top right, there is a 'Sign into MyEBSCOHOST' link.


The link is circled in red. Clicking on the link takes you to this screen:

If you are a new user click on the link on the top left of this page (again circled in red) to set up your EBSCO account. You will need to provide:
your first name
your last name
an email address
a username name (to log into MyEBSCOHost)
a password (a minimum of five characters)
a secret question and
a secret answer.

Your username and password are between you and EBSCO, so it's they you have to contact if you forget your password (hence the need for an email address and secret question). There's other stuff you can do with an EBSCO profile: if you're logged in you can save and view your search history, set up em-mail alerts and share your folders with other EBSCO users.

I'd put links to the EBSCOHost pages into the images themselves, but each page comes with its own session ID - which of course expires after a certain amount of time.

More information available here.

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