Google Scholar: Saving Results + Creating Alerts

My Library

My Library is a great way to keep track of important research and access it any time you're online. My Library allows you to

• save articles directly from the search results page
• organize them by topic
• search the full-text from within your library
• easily export the citations to a citation manager like Mendeley or Zotero. 

Save to "My Library"

• select the star button to save to your library. 

Organize your library by using Labels.

• Once you have some articles saved, select the My Library button to view your library
• Select the Manage Labels button to add labels for different topics, classes, groups, etc.
• To add an article to a label, click the article title, then select the desire label from the Labels drop-down menu.
• You can add multiple labels to any citation.

The image below shows where you can manage labels from the left side menu and search documents in your library. 

Exporting Citations

To export citations you need to 

1.Go to Settings , then to search Results, then Bibliography Manager 

2. Choose the type of export link you bibliography manager uses. 

• For Mendeley, use BibTex
• For Zotero, use RefMan

3. Go to My Library 

4. Select the citations yo want to export

5. Save the link as a txt file. 

6. Go to your citation management software and import the file

Information adapted from Western Michigan University at https://libguides.wmich.edu/c.php?g=1056488&p=7675686