As a part of research, using scholarly databases and search tools, you carry out the literature search and survey, and identify and collect several relevant research papers and other related documents on the area of your research. To organise this large pool of documents collected over a period and use it effectively, we recommend that you use the Citation and References management software such as Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote and others.
Similarly, having identified and started working for your research in a specific area, you may like to keep yourself updated with recent literature. Most of the databases, such as Scopus, Web of Science, SciFinder, MathSciNet and others have facility to set the alert. You may like to set these alerts on the topics of your interest. The scholarly search engines such as Google Scholar and others also have this facility. The JournalTOCs which has 30000+. In addition, each publisher and journal on their respective website offers a facility to register and set up an alert on a topic or for specific journal title(s).