HOWTO: Google Scholar email alerts
I’ve explained before how to use Google Scholar to do some of the heavy lifting for you when doing academic work. In this post I want to show briefly how you can get email alerts on specific search terms. It’s easy! 🙂
Once you’ve done that, simply fill in the boxes:
You can access Google Scholar at http://scholar.google.com
***BONUS*** I found out after writing this post that the Google Scholar team have launched their official blog. Their first post covers what I’ve mentioned above. But I still think showing rather than telling is better… :-p
Sadly, no comments on the Google Scholar blog, so I can’t tell them that they’ve screwed up by not having an RSS option for their alerts 🙁
Good point! Although I like that the email synthesizes stuff. Information overload – sorry *filter failure* – and all that… 🙂