2. What is Journal Engagement?
Users can:
• Easily browse and find new journals of
interest
• Easily follow favorite journals on any device
• Connect directly to journal content from any
device
BrowZine™
Journal Engagement
3. Research Use of Journals
Search Browse
✅ Search for specific
information from the broad
body of information
available
✅ Stay current in field of
study via recent articles
from key journals
✅ Serendipitous discovery of
information from related
journals
❌ General search terms
(e.g. subject areas)
provide too many results
❌ Search term required:
users cannot search for
information they don’t yet
know
❌ Search for specific
information from a broad
range of content
Complementary
Complete Scholarly Awareness
× General search terms
(e.g. subject areas)
provide too many results
× Search term required:
users cannot search for
information they don’t yet
know
× Search for specific
information from a broad
range of content
4. • 550+ customers in 20+ countries across Academic,
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• Used by leading global pharmaceutical companies
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6. Maximize the return on your journal spend
Showcase the latest journal research to your
users from the hundreds of scholarly journal
publishers included in your subscriptions
7. BrowZine enables your users to easily browse/find,
follow and connect to your journals
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8. The Current Experience
Step 2: Enter Journal
Name
Step 3: View Results
by Source
Step 1: Go to A-Z List
Studies show between 25% and 48%
of users terminate their search when
presented with link options
Price and Trainor (2010) & Waikimoto, Walker and Dabbour (2006)
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Step 5: Inconsistent
presentation of
journals issues, table
of contents across
different publisher
platforms
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18. Complete Journal Engagement With BrowZine
Homepage search
of A-Z/Catalog
Discovery/Search
Service
Subject Guides
iOS and
Android Mobile
Apps
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Journal Engagement
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• Quick and Easy to Set-up
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Journal Engagement
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done it 20 years ago
BrowZine can be firmly
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boosting the visibility and
accessibility of its
collections
Guus van den
Brekel
University of
Groningen
Medical Library
Steven Chang
Western
Health,
Melbourne