Managing Alerts

ProQuest lets you create alerts to notify you of new information. You can create an alert for a search you've just run, and receive an email notification of new search results, or you can create an alert for a publication, and receive an email notification of new issues published.

You can login to Manage My Alerts to make edits to your alerts.

Alerts are tracked and managed by the email address entered when creating the alert. You will need to create a management account for each email address you use when creating alerts.

Login to Manage My Alerts

Follow these steps to login to Manage My Alerts:

1. On the My Research , Alerts subtab, click the Manage My Alerts link.
   You see the ProQuest Alerts - Login page.

If you have aleady set up an account to manage your alerts, enter your email address and your password. Then click Sign In.

If you haven't set up an account to manage your alerts, enter your email address and click Create Account. You will see the ProQuest Alerts - Account Confirmation Sent dialog. Follow the directions on this page before continuing.

If you have an account but have forgotten your password, click the Click here link after the Forgot your password? Message. You see the ProQuest Alerts - Forgotten Password Reset dialog. Enter your email address and click Reset Password. You will see a confirmation dialog. Follow the directions in this message before continuing.

You see the Manage My Alerts page. On this page you can:

• View a list of all your alerts
• Edit settings and renew alerts
• Delete alerts
• Turn on vacation mode to suspend delivery
• Change your email address for receiving alerts
• Change your password for logging in to Manage My Alerts

View all Alerts

To view all your alerts, log in to Manage My Alerts. You will see a list of all alerts for that email address.

Edit Alert Settings and Renew Alerts

To edit the settings for an alert, or to renew an alert, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Manage My Alerts.
2. Locate the alert you want to edit or renew. You can use the sorting arrows to sort by the Alert Subject, Type, or Expiration columns.
3. Click Edit after the alert you want to edit or renew.
   You see the Edit Your Search Alert page.
4. Make the desired changes and click Save.

You cannot change the original search on the Edit Your Search Alert page. If you want to change the original search, you will need to run the new search, then create a new alert.

Delete Alerts

To delete an alert, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Manage My Alerts.
2. Locate the alert you want to delete. You can use the sorting arrows to sort by the Alert Subject, Type, or Expiration columns.
3. Click Delete after the alert you want to delete.
4. You will see a confirmation dialog. Click Continue to delete the alert.

Turn on Vacation Mode

To turn on Vacation Mode and suspend alerts temporarily, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Manage My Alerts.
2. Click Turn ON vacation mode.
3. You will see a message at the top of the page indicating that Vacation Mode is on. Alerts will be suspended until you turn Vacation Mode off.

Change your Email Address

To change the email address where you want to receive alerts, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Manage My Alerts.
2. Click Change email address.
   You will see the ProQuest Alerts -- Change Email Address page.
3. Enter the new email address and your password.
4. Click Save.

The next time you login to Manage My Alerts, you will need to use the new email address.

Change Your Password

To change the password you use to log in to Manage My Alerts, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Manage My Alerts.
2. Click Change password.
   You will see the ProQuest Alerts -- Change Password page.
3. Enter your current password and the new password. Re-enter your new password.
4. Click Save.