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Finding Journals and Journal Articles

Using BrowZine

BrowZine is a tool which allows you to browse across a range of subjects to discover eJournals which you may not be familiar with.  You can use it to:

  • Browse by subject. You can start with a broad discipline area and narrow it down to a very specific subject.
  • Search for individual journals by title. You might do this to check if we have a subscription to a title you are interested in.
  • Add journals to your own 'Bookshelf'. You might do this so that you can go back regularly to check the latest issue and new articles which have been added.
  • Add journal articles to a 'My articles' area, so that you can go back to read them at a later date.
  • Download the BrowZine app for use on mobile devices.

You can also link to our eJournals finder to see a complete list of all the eJournals we subscribe to, as not every subscription we have is included in Browzine

You can access BrowZine and watch a help video from the links below.  The link will take you to a selection for Arts and Humanities but you can browse any subject area  you choose by selecting the option to change subject.

LibKey Nomad is a plug-in available to use alongside BrowZine that automatically provide links to full-text content of journal articles where the Library has a subscription to the particular journal.  This can be used anywhere on the internet and you can install it for a variety of browsers here - You just need to install the plug-in and then select ‘University of Derby’ when prompted.

Once this is done, whenever you come across a journal article when browsing the internet or searching Google, LibKey Nomad will inform you if the article is available through our library's subscriptions, or if there is an open access copy available  You will see a 'Download PDF' alert at the bottom of the page, as seen in the image below.

You can then click on the Download PDF icon and it will take you to the full text of the article (if you’re not logged in to the University’s systems, it will ask you to do that first before re-directing you to the full text).

Obviously to get full access, it is always best to go via our resources, but this does mean you can still access those resources we pay for from whenever you are on the internet.