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Become a Google Scholar Expert: Setting Up Email Alerts, Saving, & Citing

Part of the Spring 2019 Library Workshops for Staff

Set Up Email Alerts to Get New Articles Sent to Your Inbox

1) Do a search for your topic of interest.

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2) Click the envelope icon on the left side of the search results page.

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3) Enter your email address. Click on "Create alert."

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4) Verify that you're not a robot, and then verify the alert through your email.

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Save Items of Interest to Your Google Scholar Library

1) Click on the star symbol underneath a title of interest to save it.

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2) Find all of your saved articles by clicking on "My Library" on the top right of the page.

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3) Find all of your saved articles.

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Cite Articles from Google Scholar

The citations aren't perfect, but it can be helpful to copy-paste the citations and then correct them.

3) Click on the quotation mark icon, and then find the citation in your preferred style from the list.

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