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Alerts and Current Awareness: Google

Setting up alerts in databases

Google Alerts

 
 
Alerts
Monitor the web for interesting new content
 
  1. In the "Create an alert about" box, enter in the words you want to get email notifications for.
  2. Click Show options to customize things like how often you get alerts, types of websites you want to search, and the email address for your alerts.
  3. Click Create Alert.

You can also create an alert by clicking the + next to any of the suggested topics that you see on the Google Alerts page.

Once your alert is set up, you’ll start getting emails anytime we find new search results for your keywords.

 
 
Alerts on Google scholar are also available
Set up a free account and be alerted when something happens with your search
 
    
 
Alerts
Monitor the web for interesting new content