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BrowZine and LibKey Research Tools: Researching with BrowZine and LibKey

This guide provides insight into what the BrowZine and LibKey research tools are, how to use them, and the benefits they can offers to users.

Researching BrowZine or LibKey

Researching with BrowZine and LibKey:

Explore this page to learn more about researching using BrowZine and LibKey, and how to get the most from these resources.  

Researching with BrowZine

Advantages of BrowZine:

  • IOS or Android Mobile Support 
  • Growing Scholarly Collection
  • On and Off Campus Access
  • "My Articles" allows for articles to be saved offline
  • Intuitive and User-Friendly interface

Who can research with BrowZine?

  • 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. 

Researching with LibKey

LibKey as a Research Tool

  • LibKey connects users with the highest level of access for materials, including connecting to the InterLibrary Loan system. 

LibKey and Retractions

  • Article Retractions occur when a previously published academic paper is found to be fraudulent or flawed, and is removed from journals, known as a First Order Retraction. 
  • This can lead to a chain reaction, impacting other published works who used it as a citation, known as a Secondary Order Retraction.
  • Combined, LibKey has helped alert users to over 550,000 First and Secondary Order Retractions. 

LibKey.io

  • This is designed to make searching, and accessing articles as simple as possible. 
  • LibKey.io searches for articles by their DOI or PMID numbers.