The Learning Success Hub now has a dedicated page which brings together a range of tools to support your research, make it easy to locate and save useful resources, and effectively manage your references.  

Tools available include:  

BrowZine

BrowZine brings together all the academic journals in the Arden Library collection in a simple to use platform that enables you to search by subject area, journal title or ISSN.  

The platform acts like an online bookshelf allowing you to create a personal library of journals and articles, and you can save and export your articles to read them offline.  

You can follow and receive alerts when new issues of your favourite journals are published. 

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a specially designed Google search that indexes scholarly research.  

This is a quick way to conduct academic searches, and you can adjust your settings so that Google Scholar will provide links to resources available through Arden’s Library Portal.  

Reference Management Tools

The Research Tools page provides access to Zotero and Mendeley. These are two useful tools which enable you to collect, organise and annotate your academic resources and create references and bibliographies.  

LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides quick and simple access to full-text articles of journals that we subscribe to along with open access articles.  

The tool works in the background when you are browsing articles online. When it detects a page containing content that is available from our library subscriptions or open access materials an icon will pop up which will take you directly to the PDF.  

This can save you time as you don’t need to log in on each journal website or keep going back to the library search to locate it. 

LibKey.io

Libkey.io is a quick way of searching for full-text articles using either the digital object identifier (DOI) or PubMed Identifier (PMID). If we have a subscription to the journal or it is open access, LibKey.io will take you straight to the full text. 

To find out more, access video guides, and start using all these great tools visit the Research Tools page. 

Share it via:

Continue Reading

Blog   Reflective Writing
Bridging the Digital Divide

This brief blog entry reflects on the digital divide in online education and on how to build a bridge across it. At the beginning of my…

Blog   Reflective Writing
Academic Integrity and Impostor Syndrome

Hi, I’m Hazel. She/They is fine with me. I’m 5 foot 1 on a good day - when I remember to stand up straight and I’m wearing shoes. I,…

News
Library Support over the Christmas Break

The Library Team and Academic Skills Tutors will be taking a break for the Christmas period from the 24th December until the…

Blog   Academic Writing
Practice makes perfect: The power of music and academic…

I am a chartered librarian by profession, a lapsed musician, and at Arden University a manager of all things related to Academic Skills – a…

Blog   Reflective Writing
Way Back When... Reflections on Graphic Design in the 1980s

Having graduated in the late 1980s, I can appreciate how graphic design and its associated industries have evolved over the past 30 years.…

Blog   Paraphrasing and Synthesis
Paraphrasing - The Academic Marmite

Like me, you might have an ‘academic superhero’, a sort of ‘scholarly pinup.' This may be a very engaging …