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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">In order, your questions:<br>
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<li>No. It lets you view the table of contents and holdings for your journals, but you must be online. You can open an article to read online, or download it to save to your machine for later. Articles will let you email them, open them in other apps, save
them, etc.</li><li>If you open and download an article while online, you can easily secure it in a folder to read later. You do have to do your picking and pulling while online to be able to read the articles offline.
</li><li>The usage is counted as a normal download by journal vendors. It is not a double use. I'm not sure if it counts table of contents views in any way.<br>
</li><li>No, it's for everything they can manage to get that you have subscribed via traditional subscription or aggregator, or that is open access. I am at a science library, and we definitely promote it far more as we pay for it on our campus, but I can see that
a big chunk of the use is in the social sciences, arts, humanities, news, etc. About half of my personal bookshelf is cultural studies and ethics and art.</li></ul>
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Does that help? You can get the app for free to see how it works - it will just be limited to open access journals. Anyone can use that. It's if you want your library's collection to be accessible that you have to pay.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Leslie O'Brien; eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] browzine thoughts?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Does it download whole journals? Otherwise, how is the content available for offline sessions? And does that affect your usage counts? Is it only for the
sciences (as the first webpage I found indicated)?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Leslie O'Brien<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2015 1:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] browzine thoughts?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Virginia Tech has subscribed to Browzine since July 2014. We added the web version to our subscription for the coming fiscal year. We have 2,400 faculty and 29,000 students. For the first 9 months we had 1,100 sessions and 2,300 full
text downloads. About 80% of the sessions were on iOS devices. I hope we'll see usage grow over the next year.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Steve Oberg <<a href="mailto:steve.oberg@wheaton.edu" target="_blank">steve.oberg@wheaton.edu</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">We renewed our subscription to the “regular” BrowZine just a few weeks ago; it was a new subscription for us last year. We decided to also subscribe to BrowZine
web, an add-on product, in hopes that it will broaden the service’s appeal and accessibility to our users.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Our stats thus far sound like yours — not great. However, whenever we talk about or demo it, the response is quite positive. I’m not sure why that is not (yet)
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It’s still a relatively new thing and our community can be slow to adopt new technologies and services</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I’m not sure the service will ever broadly appeal to undergrads and we are a predominantly undergrad institution</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Existing habits of faculty and perhaps grad students for keeping current in subject areas is probably deeply ingrained</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We need to take every opportunity to promote the service, and to show our users how to use it</span></li></ul>
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<b>Date: </b>Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 10:33 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>"<br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Eril-l] browzine thoughts?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Anyone out there have thoughts on BrowZine? Is anyone signing up for BrowZine web?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Our use of BrowZine is not awesome. Does anyone have awesome usage or ideas about increasing usage?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">We currently only have it for iOS.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Amy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Associate Professor, Electronic Resources Coordinator</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Bowling Green, OH 43403</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:black">email is the best way to reach me</span></i><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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