Create E-mail Alert

If you look at the GOOGLE Scholar toolbar, you'll see a 'create e-mail alert' button. This is quite neat. With GOOGLE Alert, you type in your search terms and then set GOOGLE to conduct a regular search for you (daily, weekly etc.). When GOOGLE finds a new hit for you, very simply you get an automatic e-mail from them. So, it's well worth deciding on key research words and phrases for your studies and setting up a GOOGLE Alert system for yourself.

Of course, you'll need a free g-mail account to take advantage of all of this - but on balance it's well worth having.