Literature Review Guide

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.

Learn more about setting up search alerts in the boxes below

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.

Search Alerts in Databases provide you with an automatic email notification when new journal articles that fit within your database search parameters become available. 

Here's how to set up Search Alerts in EBSCO databases (ex: Academic Search Complete, APA PsycInfo (EBSCO), Business Source, etc.):

1. Run a search in an EBSCO database
2. Sign in to MyEBSCO
3. Click Create Alert   
   
4. On the Alert screen, enter the required information and select the frequency for receiving notifications.
5. You will see a notification box, "Search Alert Created"