Search Alerts are a time saver for keeping up to date on what's happening in your field!
Instead of performing the same database search again and again to determine if any new articles have been published on your topic, setting up alerts will get new articles matching your search parameters emailed to you.
Professional Associations are a way to get involved and learn about new trends and scholarship in the field!
To create an alert in Google Scholar:
Step 1: Create a search for keywords/concepts that you would like to receive alerts about (TIP: Be specific! The more general your search terms, the larger number of alerts you will receive)
Step 2: On the search results page, click: Create Alert on the bottom left side of the screen
Step 3: On the Create Alerts page, verify your information and click: Create Alert
To unsubscribe to alerts, click on the link to cancel the alert at the bottom of every notification email.