Keeping up to date with current developments is crucial to research. Setting up alerts or RSS feeds on databases, joining discussion lists and following authors and/or organisations on socical media are all ways to help you to stay up to date. Contact your Subject Librarian for specialist advice and help. 

To set up an alert on Google Scholar:

• Type in keywords to describe your topic.
• On the Search Results page, click Create Alert on the left hand side of the screen.

• You can also use Google Scholar to set up citation alerts and to follow authors who have a Google Scholar profile. 
• More information on setting up alerts in Google Scholar
• Video: Creating alerts in Google Scholar

Email alerts and/or RSS feeds are available in most databases and can be set up for:

• Topic searches: You are alerted whenever new articles matching your search terms are published.
• Table of Contents (TOC): You are alerted whenever new table of contents are published for selected journals.
• Citation: You are alerted whenever a new article cites another article. The following databases provide a citation alert feature: Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Scopus

Follow the database's instructions to create an alert or RSS feed. 

More information:

Creating alerts and using My Scopus settings

Setting up alerts in Google Scholar

Creating a search alert/RSS feed on EBSCO

Microsoft Outlook and RSS feeds

Kerry Gilmour  

Phone: +6433693933

Social media can be used to:

• Follow researchers, journals or organisations in your research area
• Keep up to date with social media postings from conferences.
• Share research with others.  
• Improve your research impact.  Learn more about Altmetrics