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LibKey & BrowZine

Examples, best practices, and tips and tricks to get the most out of LibKey and BrowZine.

Logo for BrowZine featuring an open book with multicolored swirled lines emanating from the pages, with the text BrowZine to the right of the image.

The best thing to happen to e-journals, ever.

Screenshot of a demo account's BrowZine landing page, including the search by title, subject, and ISSN, and the browsable taxonomy.

What- BrowZine is your virtual scholarly journal library. Highly visual and intuitive, it's built to mimic the experience of browsing so that your users can keep up with the journals that matter to them, and discover a whole lot more.

Who- BrowZine is a tool for everyone!

  • For researchers, professionals, and practitioners, BrowZine helps them keep track of journals they know and easily discover new research titles.
  • Use it as an information literacy tool to help teach students about the structure of scholarly journals and how the role they play in scholarly communication.
  • For faculty members, graduate students, and post-docs, BrowZine helps them stay current with research in their discipline while exposing them to areas of your collections they might not have seen otherwise, all thanks to our taxonomy that was custom-built for browsing. 

How- You can get BrowZine to your research community in a number of ways:

  • Use your unique BrowZine URL to create a direct link anywhere on your website.
  • Embed BrowZine search boxes in your website and LibGuides- see the subpages on the left for more ideas.  

Librarian Tip!

Screen shot showing the third layer of the taxonomy browsing search in BrowZine, displaying psychology journal titles.

 

Like LibKey.io, linking in BrowZine is durable and consistent. This means that you can confidently share links to individual articles, journal issues, or even entire subject areas. Here's how you can leverage this linking:

  • Does your library produce research guides? Include a link to that guide's subject area in BrowZine to showcase all of the journals you have in that area, like Arden University has done with the "Key Journals" tile on their Psychology guide.
  • Tell faculty about the durable linking so they can directly link students to journals or articles in their syllabi or online course environments.
  • Want to advertise individual journals in a "new journals" or "top journals" list? Use the URL after clicking into a journal in BrowZine! This URL will always link back to the current issue of that journal, so you won't need to update it!