Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Features of Google Scholar
- Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place
- Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications
- Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
- Keep up with recent developments in any area of research
- Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile
To Create Alerts:
- From Google Scholar homepage, expand the menu on the top left
- Click the Alerts Envelop on the left
- Click Create Alert button and fill out search words and email address
- Locate Alerts Envelop in right column to view saved alerts