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LibKey & BrowZine

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

Placing BrowZine On Your Site

Where should you link to BrowZine on your website?

Anywhere your users go to access the library's journals is a place where the library can provide a link to BrowZine. Many libraries use BrowZine as their primary journal lookup tool, while others position it alongside their traditional A-Z list to provide multiple search experiences for their users. Whichever approach your library takes, you'll want to keep the following best practices in mind. 

Make the link text a clear and compelling call to action

In other words, don’t call it BrowZine!  Most end-users are not familiar with the BrowZine name, so putting a link labelled "BrowZine" on the library website probably won't resonate. Instead, choose a label that focuses on the purpose of BrowZine- browsing your scholarly journal collection. 

Some ideas you might try: Browse Journals, Search Journals by Subject, eJournals, Electronic Journals, Journals A-Z, Journals by Subject, Find a Journal, Scholarly Journals, Peer-reviewed Journals

Link directly to your unique BrowZine library URL, no proxy necessary

Use your library’s unique BrowZine URL when linking on your website. There’s no need to proxy the link or send your users to the general www.browzine.com website, where they’ll be forced to authenticate. Since BrowZine checks authentication at the article level, you can streamline access for your end users by linking them directly to your BrowZine library and removing barriers to access, confident that access to your library's full-text resources is being protected while making Open Access content more readily available. 

BrowZine on your library's website.

BrowZine Journal Lookup

The BrowZine search box allows you to embed a responsive search box directly into a webpage or LibGuide so users can search directly from your site. These instructions are for adding the search box into your website. See the subpage "BrowZine in your LibGuides for instructions on how to add it to your LibGuide.

First, Locate your Third Iron ID

  1. Go to www.browzine.com, then click. "Choose My Library" button. Select your library from the list. The resulting page is your library's unique BrowZine URL with your Third Iron ID amended at the end: http://browzine.com/libraries/###
  2. If going to www.browzine.com loads a BrowZine page other than your own library's, simply click the gear wheel icon in the upper right corner. Then, click "Change Library", under the library's name at the top of the screen. This will take you to the library selection list.

Then, add the search box code

  1. Paste the following HTML code into your web editor:
<img alt="" src="//s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/78343/images/BrowZinelogo.png" style="width: 100px; height: 100px; float: left; margin-right:20px;" />
<form method="get" action="https://api.thirdiron.com/v2/libraries/###/external-search" target="_blank">
  <fieldset>
    <legend>Search e-journals</legend>
    <label for="query">Title, ISSN or Subject keywords</label>
    <input type="text" name="query" id="query">
    <input type="submit" value="submit">
  </fieldset>
</form>

3. Replace the ### with your library's Third Iron ID

Last, tweak to fit!

Play around with the code to match your site's design. Need help?  Contact us at support@thirdiron.com 

Sites hosted on wordpress.com are not compatible with the search widget due to Wordpress-imposed security restrictions.

You can also browse with embedded search! See below for examples of our drop-down subject search menu and our full subject listing search. You can learn more about this option (as well as how to tweak it even further) in our support documentation.

Browse eJournals by Subject:

 

 

Browse eJournals by Subject: