What is BrowZine?
BrowZine brings scholarly, academic journal content together from multiple publishers and platforms into a single place, where you can save your favorite journals, view the tables of contents, and read or save articles, as new issues are released.
On your device: Use the
BrowZine App on your device to set up table of contents alerts for your favourite journals.
From anywhere via the web: Use
BrowZine Web to browse recent issues of journals by subject, and use the My Bookshelf feature to track your favourites.
Who is it for?
People who want to stay current on articles being published in their field -- researchers, faculty, administrators, graduate students and anyone else with favorite titles. Use the
BrowZine App to get table of contents alerts when new issues are published automatically, or My Bookshelf in
BrowZine Web.
How do I get BrowZine?
Download the BrowZine App which offers a table of contents current awareness service for smart phones and tablet devices.
The library also has access to BrowZine Web, a virtual bookshelf of scholarly journals organized by subject - accessible from any desktop browser.
What devices are supported?
BrowZine Web is accessible from the internet via a desktop or laptop computer.
Will it work off campus?
Yes! If you run into problems, however, please contact us at libhelp@sfu.ca
Why aren’t certain journals included?
BrowZine includes the majority of academic commercial and scholarly
publishers, and is adding more on a regular basis. To get notified about new additions, check their
website or sign up for their newsletter.
BrowZine is focused on scholarly academic, primarily peer-reviewed journals and does NOT include newspapers or magazines.
If there is a scholarly journal not included in BrowZine, let us know and we will forward a request to BrowZine to add it to their service. Contact
lib-licensing@sfu.ca to suggest a journal for BrowZine.
Looking for in-depth research or older content?
BrowZine is a tool to access current journal content, and not designed for in-depth research or searching.
For that, we recommend Library Search, the Electronic Journals database for the older content of a specific journal, or the many databases and indexes that the Library subscribes to. If you have questions about the best source for your research needs, please contact the liaison librarian for your discipline or Ask a Librarian.
How can I get help or find more information?
Email the
Electronic Resources department for help getting or using
BrowZine. In addition, Third Iron, the company that created BrowZine, has an extensive support section on their
website.
And, check out
this review in the Chronicle of Higher Education!
Advanced FAQs
Are preprint or prepublication articles included?
Partially -- yes. At present, BrowZine supports this for 900+ titles and are continuing to add support for more titles over the next few months. As different publishers display this material differently, some development work is needed to display this correctly across all publishers.
Is there an embargo on any of the articles?
No. Articles in journal titles for which the library has a current subscription and whose publisher is supported by BrowZine can be accessed as soon as they’re published digitally and assigned a DOI by the organization CrossRef. For more information about DOIs and CrossRef, see
CrossRef's Fast Facts.
Will links to other articles from the bibliographies or footnotes work?
Links in articles should work, if we have a subscription to the journal being linked to. If you get an error message, please email us at
libhelp@sfu.ca.
Will BrowZine work without an internet connection?
Articles which have been saved can be found in the Saved Articles area of the
BrowZine App and can be read off-line, but other features will not work.
Can articles be printed?
The
BrowZine App does not offer a printing function, but articles can be opened in other apps that do allow printing, like Dropbox or iBooks, Use the icon in the upper right hand corner (three little squares in Android, a rectangle with an arrow in iOS) to open an article in a different app. The apps that are available there will depend on what is installed on your device.
BrowZine Web works like any other web-service and you should be able to print normally if you are connected to a printer.
Can I export articles to a citation management tool?
The
Browzine App supports Zotero and Mendeley for citation management.
A journal on my bookshelf is greyed out, and won’t open. How do I fix it?
Hold your finger down on the journal until it begins to move. Click the X in the corner, then find the journal via the subject browse or title search, and add it again.