Google Scholar is a search engine that specializes in searching scholarly literature and academic research. It allows you to set up alerts for new results matching your search. Alerts come out many times per week.
To set up alerts:
- Build a search that brings back results that are relevant to you - including keywords, known items, specific authors, and more.
- Click the envelope at the bottom of left column of the search screen "Create Alert."
- Select whether you'd like to receive 10 or 20 alerts per message, and specify which email you'd like to use.
- You do not have to use a gmail account.
- You will get an email confirming that you want to set this alert.
- To unsubscribe, you may do so at the bottom of any alert email you receive.

How to get to your alerts page once you're logged into Google Scholar:
- Go to scholar.google.com
- In the upper left corner click on the menu, which is three lines next to "My profile"
- Click on "Alerts"
For more information on searching Google Scholar: check out our Google for Researchers Guide on the Health Sciences Library website.