Resources on your Mobile

We are starting to get resources that have been specially tailored for use with your iphone / blackberry / pda. Look here for the latest information.

Emerald App

The Emerald Group Publishing app for iPhone and iPad brings you a feature-rich interface with which to find, read and save Emerald content on-the-go. http://t.co/xSDXwaW3.

Oxford Journals

Oxford University Press is pleased to announce the delivery of mobile-optimized websites for its full range of journals websites, powered by the HighWire Press electronic publishing platform.  All Oxford journals now have a mobile-optimized version of their full website that can be accessed via multiple mobile devices.

 Taylor and Francis Online Mobile

Taylor & Francis has created Taylor & Francis Online Mobile which provides mobile access to the 1,600 Journals and Reference Works available via Taylor & Francis Online

Getting started on Taylor & Francis Online Mobile involves simply typing the url www.tandfonline.com into the browser of a mobile device.  There is also help and instructions available to get users started at http://www.tandfonline.com/page/help/mobile.

Taylor & Francis Mobile is a mobile optimized website often referred to as a ‘web app’.  You do not need to go to an ‘app store’ to obtain the mobile version simply open the browser.

The mobile site works on the following versions of Android, iPhone and Blackberry:

  • iPhone and iPod devices running OS 3.2 or later
  • iPad 3.2.2 or later
  • Android 2.2 or later
  • BlackBerry OS 6 (including the Torch 9800)
  • BlackBerry Tablet OS devices (including PlayBook)

Bridgeman Education for your iPhone

This app gives you access to Bridgeman Education's database of over 330,000 images from galleries, museums and private collections across the world. The app allows you to search the resource, view images and their metadata, and create and save slide shows.
The app is available at the app store on your iPhone 4, iTouch, or iPad or via iTunes. Requires iOS 4.1 or later.

Visit the off-campus passwords page to find the required username and password.

Download application: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ 

Cambridge Journals Online Mobile (CJOm)

Those who regularly use a small mobile device to access Cambridge Journals Online (CJO), will find it far quicker and easier with new CJO Mobile (CJOm).

  • CJOm has been optimised for smartphones and other small mobile devices
  • Streamlined design and low resolution images offer increased speed and convenience
  • If CJOm users sign up for content alerts, or save searches or articles, these will be available on CJO and vice versa
  • Mobile devices are detected and automatically directed to CJOm

Mobile users will be redirected from CJO to CJOm at:
http://journals.cambridge.org

CJOm also functions as a low bandwidth version of CJO
Non-mobile users can access CJOm via: http://jnls.cup.org

 

EBSCOhost Mobile

The new EBSCOhost Mobile application is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality right in the palm of your hand.
The platform has been tested on the most popular smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Dell Axim, Palm 750. Why not give it a try and let us know how you get on?

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Get started with the service. Login with your University Login
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for more information about the service

SciVerse ScienceDirect for iPhone

Need full-text but not at your desk? The SciVerse ScienceDirect iPhone app doesn't restrict your brainwaves to the workplace; now you can find and read any Elsevier article or book chapter while you're at a conference, travelling to and from work, or enjoying some rare downtime.

Read more about the ScienceDirect for iPhone application

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Nature for iPhone

The nature.com iPhone application allows you to access science news stories and the latest published research from Nature Publishing Group on your iPhone wherever you are. As new articles are published they're pushed straight to your iPhone where you can read the full text immediately or just save them for later.

Tell the application which journals you're interested in or set up saved searches, which will show you the titles and abstracts of new articles from any journals in PubMed that match your key words.

Download Application
Get started and download the application from the Apple iTunes store
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Nature articles are free of charge until the end of April. We will post notice here of details about logging in once this free period has finished.

 

Get your know-how on the go! Introducing IEEE Xplore Mobile (beta)

IEEE Xplore® Mobile gives you the power to search the IEEE Xplore digital library on the go. Just go to visit http://m.ieeexplore.ieee.org on any Web-enabled phone.

You’ll be able to conduct simple searches, view up to 10 article abstracts per search, and e-mail yourself a link to view the full article. It’s the fastest way to get the technical articles you need when you’re away from your PC.

Visit the IEEE Xplore Mobile Webpage for more details