GUIDELINES ON HOW TO CREATE

AN ALERT ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR –

M.T. Ramabina

created 24 June 2012 1

GO TO UNIVEN WEBSITE (www.univen.ac.za)

CLICK ON LIBRARY

CLICK ON DATABASES

LIST OF UNIVEN DATABASES

GO TO GOOGLE SCHOLAR

SIGN IN ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR

REGISTER OR SIGN UP ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR

CREATE A NEW GOOGLE ACCOUNT

GOOGLE SCHOLAR ALERT

CREATE GOOGLE SCHOLAR ALERT

PUT IN YOUR RESEARCH TOPIC

ALERT CREATED

EXAMPLE OF ALERT ON EMAILS

IMPORTANCE OF ALERTS

RECEIVE AN EMAIL ALERT WHEN NEW ARTICLES MATCHING YOUR TOPIC ARE AVAILABLE.

RECEIVE AN EMAIL ALERT WHEN A STORED SEARCH RETRIEVES NEW RESULTS

RECEIVE DIRECT LINKS TO THE NEW RESULTS LINKED DIRECTLY TO SEARCH RESULTS

• N.B. THIS SAVES TIME BECAUSE THERE IS NO NEED TO SEARCH FOR THE SAME TOPIC OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT MAROPENE RAMABINA

ON: 015 962 8521

maropene.ramabina@univen.ac.za

THANK YOU VERY MUCH