What is Browzine?
BrowZine is a mobile app for tablets and smartphones, as well as for desktops and laptops, that allows you to access and browse e-journals from different publishers in one simple interface. With BrowZine, you can:
- Read Scholarly journals in a format that is optimized for tablets.
- Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals.
- Be alerted when new issues of a journal are available.
- Bookmark articles for reading later.
- Easily save to Refworks, Zotero, Dropbox, or Mendeley.
Creating an account once you're in BrowZine is easy!
- Click "My Bookshelf" OR "My Articles" at the top left of the screen once you are in BrowZine.
- Click "Sign Up."
Once you've created an account you will see your email address in the upper right corner and you'll have the ability to create collections and bookshelves (through "My Account" and "My Bookshelves.").
Using Browzine
Browzine can help you become acquainted with relevant journals within different disciplines. Even if you aren't majoring or minoring in a specific discipline, it can be helpful to see what's being written and talked about.
Whether you're a freshman or a graduate student, reading articles from recent issues of academic journals can help you enter the scholarly conversation, learn new things, and can even make you a better academic writer.
Don't have much time? Simply skimming the titles of recently published articles can help you to notice themes, important ideas, and key scholars in the field. Spending even a few minutes on Browzine can make a big difference!
