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Online bookshops and some of the major search engines offer ‘Alerts? services. These work by allowing you to set up a profile once you have registered on their site, and when there are items meeting your criteria you receive an email. The good thing about alerts is that you don?t have to do anything once you have set up your profile. The downside, particularly with alerts services from the search engines, is that given the extent to which internet traffic is on the increase whether new web pages or new blog postings, you may end up with rather a lot of information to deal with.
Google and Yahoo! offer alerting services for new web-based content e.g. blog postings, news.
For more academic information, MyIntute is a personalisation service from the Intute gateway. Gateways like Intute index quality controlled internet resources. By registering you will receive email alerts for new items matching your criteria when they are added to the Intute gateway. This also applies to any searches that you save.
Keep up to date with new books in your subject area by registering with an online bookshop, such as Blackwells
Choose one of the alerting services outlined above and set up an alert. You may have to register for an account first, if you haven?t already got one.
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