Given that the Directory of Open Access Journals at the writing of this review provides access to 8881 journals (4515 searchable at the article level), I am not sure why Browzine only shelves relatively few. Through Browzine, I have access to 291 journals, 206 of which are listed under the subject heading “Biomedical and Health Sciences,” another 68 under “Biological Sciences,” and a smattering of journals in other fields, primarily scientific and technological. It is also a bit of problem, I think, that Browzine’s open access (OA) journal offerings are significantly slighter in number than the corpus of OA journals available. Should they, eventually, that would be fantastic, but that remains to be seen. My library subscribes to many, many more journals that I use on a regular basis, but these do not appear on Browzine’s shelves as of yet. However, practically speaking, I can only really use two or three of these in the narrowed area in which I study and teach. Through my library’s connection to Browzine, I can access 30 journals in Languages and Literature, which is, broadly speaking, my field. However, Browzine will only be as useful as the selection of journals it can shelve. It certainly has been enjoyable scanning through the latest number of American Literary History. I can imagine sitting down with it and over a cup of coffee, scanning through the latest journals in my field. Neither of those options are present in the version I am testing, but both will be helpful additions when they are added.īrowzine could be a very useful technology. (ProfHacker has published a number of posts about Mendeley.) Browzine will also send alerts for new journal issues. Though the load time will vary with the size of the file and speed of your iPad’s internet connection, this is a nice touch.īrowzine’s website notes that the app will connect to Mendeley, for users of that reference service. With a tap on the right of left arrow, you can move to the next or previous item (from one article to the next, for example), respectively, in the list of contents, effectively browsing a journal issue like you might if you were to pull it off a shelf in a physical library. But the real innovation in Browzine is delivered through the the right and left arrow icons located immediately to the left of the share icon.