http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/ Librarians! How to empower your researchers to find, and be alerted to, the latest articles – YouTube
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKVQvL3NuQI
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Google’s free alerting services
Google email and RSS alerts are seriously broken– do not alert you to everything that is new– alerts sometimes ‘die’– often bring up old material that you’ve already seen– duplicate information
More reliable to bookmark searches, run them manually and apply date option
Customise Google News and add topics to news.google.co.uk
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Google alerts
http://www.google.com/alertsOption for Scholar alerts not included – have to be set up from within Scholar
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Google alerts
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Google Scholar alerts
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Google Scholar alerts
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Google alerts can go bizarrely wrong
Add a “topic” to news.google.co.uk (must be signed in)