Alerts:
Do you want your students to follow a current event? Is there an issue that your students need to be following for their research? Is there something happening in the world that you want to follow more closely? With a google account you can set up an alert with whatever news sources and frequency best work for you.
It is a simple as filling in 5 fields:
Search Query - your topic of interest
Result Type - choose from: blog, news, videos, discussions, books or everything
How Often - choose from: as it happens, once a day or once a week options
How many - choose from: all or only the best
Your email address
When you add your search query, you will see sample results on the right hand side so you can determine if you’ve chosen the exact term you want. When you are done with this research, you can “manage your alerts” and delete the alert so you don’t continue receiving emails.
From the Google Scholar page:
What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Features of Google Scholar
- Search diverse sources from one convenient place
- Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
- Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
- Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research
How are documents ranked?
Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.
To access both Google Alerts and Google Scholar, on the google search page go to the pull down menu “More” then select “even more.”
