But you can use it as a way of tracking which library resources you are using. So you’d wonder what value you’d get in using it if you make your activity entirely private. You can also choose whether or not things you highlight are made public. So you can choose to share your activity with all users in OpenTree, or restrict it so only your friends can see your activity, or choose to keep your activity private.
It’s social so you can connect with other people and review and share resources.īut, as a user you can choose the extent that you want to share. Although at one level it’s about a game, with points and badges for interacting with the game and with library content, resources and webpages. One of the interesting features of our new library game OpenTree for me is that it is possible to engage with it in a few different ways. Certainly the ease with which you can connect with the full-text contrasts markedly with some of the hoops that we seem to expect users to cope with in some other library systems. In the app versions you can add journal titles to your personal bookshelf (a feature promised for the desktop version later this year) and also see when new articles have been added to your chosen journals (shown with the standard red circle against the journal on the iOS version).Ī useful tool if there are a selection of journals that you need to keep up to date with. You can browse for journals by subject or search for specific journals and then view the table of contents for each journal issue and link straight through to the full-text of the articles in the journals.
There are also some open access materials in the system. It links into the library authentication system and is fed with a list of library holdings.
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Up until recently there were iOS and Android app versions but they have now been joined by a desktop version.īrowZine’s interesting as it tries to replicate the experience of browsing recent copies of journals in a physical library. We’ve started using BrowZine ( ) as a different way of offering access to online journals.
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