Note: BrowZine will no longer be supported at ECU after August 2020. BrowZine is a mobile app for tablets and smart phones, as well as for desktops and laptops, that allows you to access and browse e-journals from different publishers in one simple interface. With BrowZine, you can: Read scholarly journals in a format that is optimized for tablets. Sync with the BrowZine app for iOS and Android; Save to EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Dropbox and others. Email articles, or save to read offline. (April 2015: EndNote support available for iOS users, Android coming soon) EndNote appears as a Bibliographic Management export option from the PDF view in BrowZine. With a single tap, users may export.
Review of BrowZine for iPhone, iPad, and Android
BrowZine is one in a growing class of apps that allow you to read academic journals on your mobile device. However, unlike Docphin and Read, BrowZine is not limited to content from the health and medical sciences.
BrowZine has a different approach; as opposed to using the freely available data from the PubMed database, it works with certain publishers and your institution’s library to make their content available on your device. Many major publishers and big name journals are included such as Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, JAMA, and New England Journal of Medicine. Highwire press, the platform for many medical society journals, university presses, and academic societies are also included, resulting in an interdisciplinary collection of journals.
BrowZine works with libraries, which pay an annual licensing fee to make the app available to their communities, to match the institution’s full text holdings up with its journal list. The result is that you only see those journals for which full text is available, either because your institution pays for full text access or because the journal is open access i.e. freely available to everyone. Journals that your library pays for that aren’t working with BrowZine are not included in the app.
If you do not have an affiliation with one of the institutions that licenses BrowZine, then you will only see open access journals. There are a number of open access journals available, including the BMC and PLOS series of journals.
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You do not have to create a BrowZine account; once you select your institution, you will be prompted to sign in with the institutional username and password you use to access library resources from off campus. You can create a BrowZine account if you have the app on multiple devices and want to sync your preferences across them.
Once you download the app, you will be prompted to select your institution and sign in. This will allow BrowZine to display what you have access to.
The interface consists of a customizable bookstand and newsstand displays. The default is My Bookshelf, which offers quick access to your favorite journals. You can add journals to your bookshelf from the BrowZine Library, which is browseable by subject or by title. Chromecast from mac.
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of BrowZine, the subjects are different than what you get in dedicated health resources. For example, the sub-specialties are rolled together in two chunks: A-N and O-Z.
App for mac chromecast. Having multiple disciplines in the same place can be a benefit though, especially for specialties with closely related subjects, like Psychiatry, which can browse journals in either Psychiatry or Mental and Social Health.
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In the Titles A-Z menu, you can browse or search for certain titles. Given the number of titles available, searching is a lot faster than browsing the whole list when you know what you are looking for.
When viewing a journal, you can add it to your customizable bookshelf, view a list of available issues, or show the journal in the larger BrowZine subject library. If there is a title you are going to want to browse regularly, add it to your bookshelf to save time.
You can place journals on your bookshelf by dragging them onto different shelves and you can label shelves to create groups or collections of different journals. Journals can easily be dragged onto shelves the way you move an app in iOS.
You can view PDFs of articles from the journal table of contents. PDFs can be saved within the Saved Articles section in BrowZine, or opened and saved within any app on your device with the ability to view and save PDFs (e.g., iBooks, Dropbox, Kindle, Box, Drive). It is easy to share articles via email, Facebook, and Twitter. In addition, bibliographic management tools are integrated, including Zotero, RefWorks, and Mendeley.
Information on the BrowZine website notes that EndNote is not currently an option and it does not show up with the other citation management tools. However, I could actually open and save the PDF in my EndNote app under Document Management.
If a PDF is available through an aggregated package, the save options may differ slightly.
Evidence Behind the App
BrowZine provides an interface for accessing existing information from academic journals and does not present evidence outside the original articles themselves. The selection of journals is high quality, and new journals are added regularly.
Browse your library’s e-journals on your device with BrowZine
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