Aaron Maierhofer showcases BrowZine and how this product benefits the identity and access management community.

1. BrowZine
Your Libraries new Journal Engagement
Platform
Aaron Maierhofer

2. What is Journal Engagement?
Users can:
• Easily browse and find new journals of
interest
• Easily follow favorite journals on any device
• Connect directly to journal content from any
device
BrowZine™
Journal Engagement

3. Research Use of Journals
Search Browse
✅ Search for specific
information from the broad
body of information
available
✅ Stay current in field of
study via recent articles
from key journals
✅ Serendipitous discovery of
information from related
journals
❌ General search terms
(e.g. subject areas)
provide too many results
❌ Search term required:
users cannot search for
information they don’t yet
know
❌ Search for specific
information from a broad
range of content
Complementary
Complete Scholarly Awareness
× General search terms
(e.g. subject areas)
provide too many results
× Search term required:
users cannot search for
information they don’t yet
know
× Search for specific
information from a broad
range of content

4. • 550+ customers in 20+ countries across Academic,
Hospital, Corporate and Government Libraries
• Used by leading global pharmaceutical companies
• Used by the Top 10 Medical Schools in the United States
The Global Standard

5. UK Customers
• Cardiff Metropolitan University
• Cardiff University
• City University London
• Imperial College London
• Institute of Cancer Research
• London School of Politics and Economics
• Newcastle University
• Swansea University
• The Open University
• University College London
• University of Birmingham
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Manchester
• University of Nottingham
• University of Reading
• University of Sheffield
• University of St Andrews
• University of Sussex
• University of the Arts London

6. Maximize the return on your journal spend
 Showcase the latest journal research to your
users from the hundreds of scholarly journal
publishers included in your subscriptions

7. BrowZine enables your users to easily browse/find,
follow and connect to your journals
BrowZine has really helped me keep abreast of the literature in nephrology.
On innumerable occasions on rounds BrowZine has made me look good. I've
introduced a number of the faculty and the fellows to this product and they
have reacted with enthusiasm.
Nathaniel Reisinger, MD, Nephrologist, Univ of Pennsylvania

8. The Current Experience
Step 2: Enter Journal
Name
Step 3: View Results
by Source
Step 1: Go to A-Z List
Studies show between 25% and 48%
of users terminate their search when
presented with link options
Price and Trainor (2010) & Waikimoto, Walker and Dabbour (2006)
Step 4: Login
Step 5: Inconsistent
presentation of
journals issues, table
of contents across
different publisher
platforms

9. BrowZine Landing Page
Content scoped to your journal holdings

10. Browse Journals
Visual presentation enhances browsing and allows for serendipitous
discovery of journals

11. Table of Content
All journals are presented in a uniform way to quickly connect the user to
relevant content

12. One click to get full text
access

13. BrowZine works with Athens
Redirector

15. Set up is very easy and quick

16. Simply email us your unique
redirector URL and holdings
data

17. Suitable for most standard remote authentication
systems (Athens Redirector, Proxies, VPN)
Please contact us for details
Companion Mobile App for iOS & Android Devices

18. Complete Journal Engagement With BrowZine
Homepage search
of A-Z/Catalog
Discovery/Search
Service
Subject Guides
iOS and
Android Mobile
Apps
BrowZine™
Journal Engagement

19. Aaron Maierhofer
aaron.maierhofer@thirdiron.com
• Quick and Easy to Set-up
• World Class Technical Support
• Librarian-Led Training
BrowZine™
Journal Engagement
BrowZine the web
version. Journals
presented the way
libraries should have
done it 20 years ago
BrowZine can be firmly
recommended to any
scholarly library keen on
boosting the visibility and
accessibility of its
collections
Guus van den
Brekel
University of
Groningen
Medical Library
Steven Chang
Western
Health,
Melbourne

20. Download the BrowZine App

21. Authenticate

22. Visual display
Allows for easy browsing, fast navigation to relevant
content and serendipitous discovery of related journals

24. Export options: multiple ways for
users to manage article content

25. My Bookshelf
User is notified when new articles are published and can
easily follow journals of interest on customized
bookshelves