Easy access to research articles via LibKey Nomad!
Do you usually search for your research articles using Google, PubMed, or Wikipedia? Do you sometimes struggle to figure out how to access these articles? Use LibKey Nomad to get to your articles with ease!
Health Education England purchases hundreds of electronic journals and thousands of journal articles for NHS staff and learners. The electronic journals are generally purchased in packages or bundles, rather than direct from the publishers themselves. This is why when you’re doing an internet search, for example through Google, you get to a publisher website thinking you’ve got success, and then the website wants you to pay for the article before it will show you the full text. Your library might have access to that journal, via a package or bundle, but it just won’t work from the publisher website direct.
LibKey Nomad helps by checking your library’s collections to see if the article is available to you, and if it is, provides a direct link to it. LibKey Nomad is a browser extension, which sits in the background as you’re browsing the internet, so you don’t know it’s there until you might need it.
To get started with LibKey Nomad, first make sure you’re registered for OpenAthens.
LibKey Nomad works with most common browsers, including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave and Vivaldi. Choose the link for the browser you use and install.
After installation, LibKey Nomad prompts you to select your subscribing institution. Select ‘Primary Care in England’*. After that, it automatically scans for scholarly content wherever you may be browsing. If an article is available to you as part of your library’s collection, you’ll see a message in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen.
* For Primary Care staff only. For UHDB Trust staff, please select UHDB Library and Knowledge Service.
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