MH 1331 Introduction to Medical Humanities

DOI stands for "Digital Object Identifier" and is a unique identifier that enables users to easily trace documents and digital content. 

"A DOI is a unique number made up of a prefix and a suffix separated by a forward slash. This is an example of one: 10.1000/182" (DOI.org) 

Many articles now include a DOI in their citation. 

To practice, let's return to our example citation: 

TAITHE. (2001). Morality is not a Curable Disease: Probing the History of Venereal Diseases, Morality and Prostitution. Social History of Medicine : the Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 14(2), 337–350. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/14.2.337

To search using the articles DOI, simply highlight the link at the end of the citation, paste it into your browser, and search. 

Note: If you are using this method on a network other than Baylor's network, make sure you download LibKey Nomad, so that you can access articles within journals and databases that we subscribe to. 

What is LibKey Nomad? 

 LibKey Nomad is a browser extension originally available only in Chrome but now available for Edge, Vivaldi, and Brave! (in the Chrome Store for all 4 browsers) and under development for Firefox. It enables you to access academic articles quickly and easily. 

You can download Libkey Nomad here

Once installed and configured by the user (a one-time set up during which the user identifies the institution with which they are affiliated), this extension will provide off-campus access to the full text of journal articles available to Baylor – without having to go through the library website or a library resource. In other words, researchers can search Google Scholar, click through to the publisher’s site, and the extension (using the access rights information Baylor provides to BrowZine) will indicate that the researcher can access the full text. Once they click on the LibKey icon, they will be authenticated through EZproxy and gain access to the article.