BrowZine – Reference at Newman Library

Table of Contents Links in OneSearch Results

Following up on our integration of BrowZine into Serials Solutions search results from earlier this month, we’ve found another way to take advantage of BrowZine’s API. Starting today, when you run searches in OneSearch, if there is a table of contents related to a scholarly journal article you’ve found or to a scholarly journal you searched for, relevant records in OneSearch will display a link into BrowZine.

EXAMPLE: When your search results include a record for a journal, such as JAMA.

Note the blue links for “View journal contents” (which go to BrowZine) below the green links for “Full text available” (which go to the full OneSearch record for that journal)

EXAMPLE: When your search results for articles include scholarly journal articles.

Note the blue links for “View issue contents” (which go to BrowZine) below the green links for “Full text available” (which go to the full text of each article).

Please note that not every school in CUNY has BrowZine and that among those that do have it, only Baruch has set up this integration (Queens is still testing it out).

If you go to the bottom of the Faculty Services page on the library website, you’ll also find a link to BrowZine in the “journal alerting services” section.

New Feature Adds Table of Contents Display to Serials Solutions

Using the API from Browzine, we were able to customize the Serials Solutions e-journal portal so that search results will display links to tables of contents for scholarly journals.

Example: search results page for American Quarterly

Example: table of contents display in Browzine for American Quarterly

Caveats

Browzine only provides tables of contents for scholarly journals (and not every single one).
Browzine does not provide tables of contents for magazines (including Harvard Business Review)
The tables of content available usually go back to 2005; if you need older issues, the “All” link on the Browzine page for the journal will take you back to the Serials Solutions page for the journal so you can navigate into a landing page in a database to browse issues there.

In the coming months, we’ll explore integration of the Browzine elsewhere in our systems.

Trial to BrowZine Through March 31

We now have a trial to BrowZine – delivering our journal collection to iPads or Android tablets. To use it, you’ll need to first install the app:

iPad

• From your iPad (please note that BrowZine works best on iPad 2 or later), download BrowZine from the App Store and install it.

• When you open BrowZine for the first time, you will see a list of schools, please select Baruch; then, enter your network ID and password.

• Select the subject areas and start browsing!

If you have previously downloaded BrowZine and have been using the Open Access library, you will first need to log out of that library. To do so, open BrowZine and tap the Settings button at the bottom; in the Settings page, tap the Change Library button in the upper right. The list of libraries will appear, please follow the above steps.

Android tablets

The Android version of BrowZine can be downloaded from the Google Play or Kindle/Amazon stores — same process as above. Please note that the supported devices are the Google Nexus, Samsung Galaxy and Kindle Fire HD.

Please let Mike Waldman know if you have any questions or issues and send him any feedback you may have.