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Comparing journal apps : the Basel Workshop
This document compares and summarizes three mobile apps - BrowZine, Docwise, and Read by QXMD - that are designed for personalized reading of medical and scientific literature. It provides information on the features and functionality of each app, including registration processes, user interfaces, performance, access to full text, PDF viewing capabilities, sharing options, and support. The document also outlines criteria for comparing the apps and provides a subjective rating of each.
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Comparing journal apps : the Basel Workshop
- 1. Journal Apps Comparison of designed forpersonalized reading (medical) scientific literatur
- 2. BrowZine Docwise Read byQXMD Docphin was not compared due to time-issues
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- 10. September 2011, teamsize:12 atures: TOCs, Bookshelves, integration bibliographic software Next feature: bookshelves sync with web-version Tablet: iPad, Android SmartPhone: iPhone, Android Web: +
- 11. The Continuing Evolutionof BrowZine http://browzine.com/
- 12. Evolution 1: July2015 • Core benefits of the BrowZine Experience including: • Easily browse and read thousands of journals scoped to your library holdings and integrated into existing authentication system • Normalized browsing experience across hundreds of publishers • Virtual Reading Room concept preserved from the mobile platform to the desktop • Multiple points of entry: Link patrons either directly from your website or have them enter directly via browzine.com With thanks to BrowZine team for the preview slides.
- 13. Evolution 2: Fall2015 • Curation, Personalization and Sync • Add your favorite titles to My Bookshelf to enable easy access to your favorite titles, organized in a way convenient just for you • Receive alerts when new issues are publishers in your favorite journals • Create multiple reading lists to flag titles for later use and share these lists with the world! • Complete the Ecosystem: Sync both My Bookshelf and reading lists across all formats of devices - small, medium and now large • Create custom links for your library to enable dynamic presentation of sets of titles for various purposes including promotion, highlighting of newly acquired titles and more! With thanks to BrowZine team for the preview slides.
- 18. With thanks toBrowZine team for the preview slides.
- 19. With thanks toBrowZine team for the preview slides.
- 20. November 2012, teamsize:3 Key features: Flipboard-like view, pdf annotation, web-version Next feature: ? Tablet: iPad SmartPhone: iPhone Web: + Android: +
- 21. Docwise December 2012,now called Docnews; teamsize: 3 Key features: flipboard-like personalized updates, Search & Topic Alerts, Add any RSS. Next feature: ? Tablet: iPad SmartPhone: iPhone Web: - Android: -
- 22. Criteria for comparison •Registration process • User Interface • Performance • Access to full text • PDF view + extra's • Share options • "Open In" other Apps • Notifications • Search Options • Support Groningen, University Medical Center or Rijksuniversiteit Gron P108124 Matrixrevo1
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- 24. Discover access issues veryquickly be abled to act faster
- 25. Staff end personalsubscriptions. Now they SEE what we have. It means they did not 'see' our collection before
- 26. The visible collection vs Howto See What You Are Not Looking At.......
- 27. Very cooperative, fast addingof extra journals, Search topics & News Add/ Edit interface needs work
- 28. User interface, Annotations inpdf Mysterious topic drill down
- 29. Trending articles in Docphincommunity, The entering of ads
- 30. Browzine Docwise ReadDocphin Registration User interface Performance Access full-text Pdf view & extra's Share "Open in" Notifications Search Support Gold BronzeSilver 4th (Subjective rating by course participants mixed with my experiences with the apps)
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- 33. Setting up JournalApps http://bit.ly/JournalappsSet up
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- 39. If you wantto be seen as an expert ... ...then your expertise has to be seen Lorcan Dempsey http://www.slideshare.net/lisld/the-inside-out-library
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Comparison, early 2013 Institutions registration, free Start ups 3 months Support for all 4
- #3 4 different apps, a lot of different features Why the focus on these apps? Can they be compared? Struggle with keeping up to date!
- #4 User diversity They are individual persons you are serving with personal tools
- #5 To decide what apps to go for, or to advise a staff member Ask questions Are they looking for topic via search or Tocs
- #6 Want to read online first as they appear? Or just the tocs when they are ready?
- #7 wireless Access to digital library inside organisation And! Off-campus access solution
- #8 Or you want to keep up in a different way
- #11 Small devices Expanded content: Jstore
- #12 Suggested Script: We are presenting a first look at the next step in the continuing evolution of our flagship product, BrowZine, coming to your desktop this summer! We’ve prepared some screenshots highlighting the look and functionality of this product as well as will discuss our roll out plan and rough time schedule for release.
- #15 You can see that the initial setup to get logged in is a similar one to any users of the mobile version. You simply visit BrowZine.com and, if we don’t recognize your computer’s network via your IP, you will be asked to select your institution by scrolling or searching for your institution’s name. Unsure how your institution might be listed? New to BrowZine when the web version launches will be the ability to filter by country and US State, helping to narrow down the search results.
- #16 The top level taxonomy features prominent branding as well as a new feature to the right - Recently visited journals (current image shows “popular journals” which will be changes). If this user has used BrowZIne before from the same computer the cookie will store previously looked at titles to automatically create a custom “quick start” menu for the user.
- #17 After selecting a top tier taxonomy easily drill down a layer and you can see both the second tier, third tier and “bookshelf” view all at the same time with BrowZine on the web! The screen will resize as you drag on a larger monitor revealing multiple additional columns for, say, the shelf on the far right. Search for a title or subject by clicking the “search” icon in the top right. Clicking on a journal cover brings you to ….
- #18 … the journal detail view. This will accordion out after a click to reveal the full suite of others (if it was previously truncated), an abstract, when available, and the ability to link to the ARTICLE LEVEL LINK as-is appropriate for this library (direct, EBSCO, ProQuest, etc.) or to request via ILL if the titles is embargoed. In Evolution 2, the “Add to My Bookshelf” feature will appear which will…
- #19 … allow you to place titles on My Bookshelf. The look of My Bookshelf has been updated for a dynamic web page environment and features the ability, on the left, to jump to ANY shelf in all of your bookshelves instantly!
- #20 Also in evolution 2 is the ability to send articles to reading lists. Since the web environment is not conducive to having “saved article”, this area allows you to flag these items which will then appear in the “reading lists” area of the mobile version (forthcoming) which will then allow you to easily download those items again from the source on your mobile device.
- #32 Very subjective, absolutely not objective
- #41 Over 11.000 staff, around 4600 researchers that contribute to publishing My library CMB, serves this community, mainly in facilitating medical education, teaching, patient care & research. Team of 6 reonsoble for ... Me: besides being medical information specialist, also coordinator electronic services & innovations Basically: boosting awareness of current staff publications UMCG Resarch Office rsponsible for collecting & analysing. Using their own designed workflow & tools, is publising in rather uninteresting way, pdf, once a year. Huge task which takes them months, and therefore is always too late, behind. 2011 numbers/lists have not yet been published.