BrowZine Reviews

Good start, but needs work

Zyryab1972

Pros: 1. Makes it easy to keep up to date 2. Remembers my login info (after some tweaking by their helpful support staff) 3. Easy to share link and pdf with colleagues Cons: 1. No ability to automatically save pdf to cloud storage 2. No ability to annotate articles 3. Doesn’t remember what issue I was on last 4. Big yellow button to “remove from bookshelf” needs to be less conspicuous and harder to accidentally hit Update to respond to developer: Thanks, but I don’t work for your company. I’m not going to login and tell your developers how to do their jobs. If this review isn’t good enough for them to figure out what needs to be done, or for someone from the company from copying and pasting these into the user request system, then it’s too bad for your company. Updating review to reflect poor use of user reviews.

State of the art in mobile access to journals

HorseBadorties

The world of academic publishing is restrictive and slow to change, but BrowZine makes the best of this environment. It offers as near to seamless access to your library’s subscriptions as you’ll find anywhere. The support team is very responsive and helpful, and the product developers are proactive in proposing and making improvements.

Much improved

Frank Katchum

I’ve been using BrowZine for a few months, and the most recent update is great. It’s easy to use—login once and it remembers my infos, the app finds and loads PDFs quickly. I’ll keep using it for my reading!

Works great again! Thanks!

Futile123

Thanks for the speedy fix: I really depend upon this outstanding app!

OpenAthens institutional acces

TachTastic

When attempting to use the application to gain access to my institutions site license via OpenAthens it doesn’t work. Error message “invalid assertion service URL”. The publisher doesn’t support this unconventional method of access. I would not recommend this application to medical students or physicians.

Useless app until developers connect most schools

umaxu

I was very excited when I downloaded the app and found a number of journals of my interest. However, this app is not very useful because most of the schools are actually not on the list. And those schools that are on the list are quite surprising. For instance, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is on the list but the University of Oklahoma is not. The Medical U of South Carolina is on the list but not the University of South Carolina, Clemson, College of Charleston or any other South Carolina school.

Potential is there but UX development is slow

KhudaKaBanda

This app is excellent for keeping up to speed on journals that i read when paired with access granted through my institution. Also the user interface is quite past century. Not a big inconvenience but probably not for millennial reader. Competitors rely on a model that takes after other social media sites (think continuous scroll of articles curated using an algorithm) vs this app which relies on the old age phenomenon of getting a physical copy of the journal and taking your time to browse through its content. The reality is that in this day and age modern readers do not like to be tied down to journal boundaries but rather appreciate a curated list of knowledge. It also lacks in identifying the special interests of its readers and then coming up with suggestions.

Great app but overly eager

stop-asking-for-a-nickname

I like the app but it would be nice if clicking on an article pulled up the title and abstract and a button to download the full text rather than immediately trying to download the paper.

Useful, but slow

no nicjname

This app is a great way to read the journal at my campus library. My only gripe is it’s still really slow to load each article. Speed has improved in the recent release, but I still twiddle my thumbs while waiting. Why can’t it download a whole journal at once? Or download several selected PDFs while I’m reading the first one?

Some issues recently

JacobWilllson

I love this app - it’s sleek, easy to use, and has many of the journals I typically cite. Unfortunately for the past couple of weeks, I haven’t been to access any articles. When I try to open an article it says there’s an authentication error. I can still access everything normally through the browser version, so I’m thinking something changed in the latest app update? Looking forward to the next update to return to normal, thanks :)

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