Frequently read journals can be placed onto a user’s BrowZine bookshelf, where alerts will tell the user when new content has been added. Yes! Faculty members who enjoyed flipping through paper journals can now digitally recreate that experience by quickly scanning issues via a digital table of contents. Journals can be placed onto a personalized bookshelf for easy access and, in the near future, notification of new available articles. However, since Wayne State subscribes to BrowZine, you can also access all of the Wayne State Libraries’ paid journal subscriptions. Complete journals and back issues in a variety of disciplines are available. The app is simple to use and brings back the browsability of a journal, which differs greatly from the experience of accessing electronic content from multiple database interfaces.Īfter downloading the app, users have instant access to a free, no-login required open access library. BrowZine can be downloaded for those devices from Google Play and Amazon. Currently it is available for iPad (downloadable through the App store) Google Nexus, Kindle Fire HD and Samsung Galaxy devices running OS 4.0+. The result is a revolutionary new way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals and articles.įirst check out this video to learn more about BrowZine īrowZine is a content delivery app designed to bring journal articles to your tablet.
BrowZine works by uniting articles from the Wayne State-owned databases into complete journals, then arranging them by subject on a newsstand.
But databases are designed for searching, not reading.
With the decline of print, databases have become the primary way publishers deliver journals.
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