Mobile-friendly resources
General Resources
Using mobile apps and websites for research
A number of resources are now accessible on mobile devices, either via a mobile-friendly website or a dedicated app. You can find different types of content via the tabs above. As a general rule, you will need to be logged in through the University wi-fi network in order to access subscribed content. In some cases, when you have done this, you can then access content off-campus for a short period of time (dependent on the provider). Sometimes you may need to create an individual log-in for certain apps.
This list is by no means exhaustive; publishers are creating new ways to access their content all the time. If you come across or know of any mobile app or resource that we've missed, please e-mail us at e-library@brunel.ac.uk.
Useful Library Resources
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Info |
Website |
Apps |
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BookMyne |
BookMyne is a free app for iOS and Android devices provided by our systems supplier. It allows you to manage your account, renew books, place holds, and carry out basic catalogue searches. |
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| Facebook - Brunel Library Page |
You can keep up to date with the latest news and changes. The main (non-mobile) page also has a catalogue app for finding items and managing your account. |
Brunel Library on Facebook |
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| LibAnswers |
Ask Library staff questions or find answers from your mobile. |
Mobile-friendly website |
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| LibraryElf |
LibraryElf’s mobile site is still developing but already lets you view a calendar of your checkouts with due date alerts and direct links to renew any items due. The main site gives you full options for setting up custom notifications (by email or RSS) for checkouts and holds.” | Mobile-friendly website | |
| RefWorks |
RefMobile gives you access to your references in RefWorks on your mobile. |
Mobile-friendly website | |
| Summon |
Summon, which searches all of Brunel's resources, has a mobile-friendly version for searching on the move. |
Mobile-friendly website | |
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Twitter - Brunel Library |
Subscribe to Library updates to stay in the know. Follow our suggested list of people, institutions, publishers and other educational accounts to see useful updates and help your studies. |
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| WorldCat |
A global library catalogue allowing you to find what you need in local libraries. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Databases
| Name |
Info |
Website |
Apps |
| ACM Digital Library |
ACM Remote Access is available through its "mobile pairing" mechanism, which allows full access to all content through your mobile for up to 30 days. | Mobile pairing instructions |
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| American Mathematical Society |
MathSciNet and AMS journals are available through its "mobile pairing" mechanism, which allows full access to all content through your mobile. |
Mobile pairing instructions |
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| Annual Reviews |
Annual Reviews publishes authoritative reviews in 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Access is up to 2008 only. Users can browse, search, and read full-text content on the Annual Reviews mobile site. |
Mobile-friendly website |
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| ChemSpider |
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 26 million structures from hundreds of data sources. |
Apple |
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| EBSCOhost |
EBSCOhost EJS contains the electronic versions of over 300 journals subscribed to by Brunel Library, from around 1997 onwards. Includes a wide range of databases such as Academic Search Complete, Business Source Premier, CINAHL, Historical Abstracts, LISTA, MLA Bibliography, PsycARTICLES, PsychINFO, SPORTDiscus, MEDLINE & Teacher Reference Centre. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android |
| Family Law Reports |
The Family Law Reports app provides access to case reports of every important Family Division, Court of Appeal, House of Lords and European court case. |
Apple, Android, Blackberry |
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| HeinOnline |
HeinOnline, a large online law journal library, can be accessed via an app for Apple devices. |
Apple |
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Lexis Library |
The legal database offers two apps. Legal Terms provides on-the-go access to key points of law, while On the Case links to a wide range of case law. An ID is required to access; this is offered free until 30/06/12 if you are a current student. |
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| Naxos Music Library |
Naxos Music Library is a listening service featuring over 140,000 classical tracks. The app allows streaming of your own playlists or institutional playlists. Before using this app, you will have to sign up for an NML Student/Member account. |
Apple, Android |
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| PubMed |
US National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature available on your mobile. |
Mobile-friendly website |
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| Sciverse ScienceDirect |
Android, Blackberry and iOS app offering full-text access to the Elsevier digital library, covering over 1800 scientific, technical, and medical publications. |
Apple, Android, Blackberry |
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| Sciverse Scopus |
Scopus is the largest ever bibliographic database and indexes over 14,000 titles from science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. The Android, Blackberry and iOS app allows you to view abstracts. |
Apple, Android, Blackberry |
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| Social Science Research Network |
Search over 260,000 research papers in the social sciences and humanities available from the open access repository of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). | Apple |
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| Web of Knowledge |
Indexes journals and conference proceedings in the arts and humanities, social science and science and technology, providing abstracts to the majority, from 1970 to date. |
Mobile-friendly website |
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Westlaw |
Westlaw includes full text of UK, EU and US case law and legislation, including Annotated Statue, English Reports, and some full text legal journals. The mobile version offers similar functionality but is best for finding and reading cases or statutes. |
Journals
| Name |
Info |
Website |
Apps |
| American Association for Cancer Research |
Full-text access to AACR Journals Mobile Edition is available to all current journal subscribers. See instructions. |
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| American Institute of Physics | Articles from the Journal of Mathematical Physics and Physics of Fluids are available through the AIP's iResearch app for Apple devices. |
Apple | |
| ASCE Research Library | The entire ASCE Library of engineering journals has been optimised for mobile devices. | Mobile-friendly website | |
| British Medical Journal | There are two BMJ apps, both iOS, which provide access to BMJ content. The first is the Student BMJ app, which enables you to read medical news and research and listen to podcasts. The second is an iPad-only BMJ app. | Mobile-friendly website |
Student BMJ (for Apple), BMJ iPad |
| Cambridge Journals Online | CJO Mobile (CJOm) provides full text access for over two hundred journals published by Cambridge University Press in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities on your mobile. | Mobile-friendly website | |
| Emerald | Articles from prestigious management journals, covering disciplines including marketing, human resource management and even engineering. | Mobile-friendly website | Apple |
| IEEE Xplore |
IEEE Xplore Mobile delivers access to engineering and technology literature on the move. |
Mobile-friendly website | |
| Institute of Physics | IOPscience Express is an iPhone or iPod touch app that provides access to Institute of Physics journal articles from the last two years. | Apple | |
| JSTOR | JSTOR Mobile allows full searching of JSTOR on the go. Users can e-mail themselves articles so they can access them later on a computer. | Mobile-friendly website | |
| Nature | Nature journals encompass subjects across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content includes daily news, expert opinion, practical methodology, and high impact research and reviews. | Apple |
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| Oxford Journals | Mobile access to the Oxford Journals collection, which includes some of the world's most highly cited and prestigious Oxford University Press journals, in a broad range of subject disciplines. | Mobile-friendly website | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | The RSC Mobile app provides readers with access to search RSC journals content for users with iOS or Android devices. Royal Society of Chemistry journals comprise a wide range of chemical science topics. | Apple, Android | |
| SAGE Journals | SAGE journals are multidisciplinary, with particular emphasis on the social sciences. Visitors to one of the more than 640 SAGE journal sites using their iPhones, Androids or other smartphones are automatically redirected to the mobile version. | Mobile-friendly website |
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| SpringerLink |
SpringerLink journals include every area of science, technology and medicine. The SpringerLink app, available for iOS devices, makes their entire collection mobile. |
Apple |
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| Taylor & Francis |
Taylor & Francis have over 1,300 humanities, social sciences and applied sciences journals. Taylor & Francis Mobile is a mobile-optimized website designed for Android, iOS and Blackberry devices. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Books
In addition to the mobile-friendly collections available below, some e-books available through the Library catalogue may also be viewable on modern mobile devices (see the paragraph on Safari Books below for an example). You can view a list of subject-specific book collections or simply load up an e-book from catalogue or Summon search results as you would normally. Not all e-books will be viewable and not every device will be able to view e-books in this way.
Downloading a free e-book app can facilitate the reading of material, especially when accessing books from the Project Gutenberg collection. Apps such as FBReader for Android and Lexcycle Stanza for Apple are good examples of these.
Safari Books Online offer both a mobile-friendly website and an iPad app, but unfortunately both are restricted to Safari subscribers with an individual Safari username and password. It is possible to connect to the Safari collection through the databases list as you would on a regular computer. It won't be as convenient but e-books are still viewable.
| Name |
Info |
Website |
Apps |
| British Library 19th Century Books |
Discover over 60,000 historical titles from the British Library’s 19th century book collection. It includes classic novels, works of philosophy, history and science. | iPad |
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| Google Books |
Search, preview and view millions of books using Google Books. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android |
| Project Gutenberg | Offers over 38,000 free e-books. You will need an e-book app on your device to view content you download. |
Mobile-friendly website |
News
| Name | Info | Website | Apps |
| Al-Jazeera | The Middle East's foremost independent news network. | Mobile-friendly website | |
| BBC News | Live, regularly updated national and international news from the BBC. | Mobile-friendly website | |
| Bloomberg |
The latest business news and data on your mobile. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android, Blackberry, Nokia |
| Channel 4 News |
Latest news from Channel 4. |
Apple, Android |
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| CNN | American news network providing up-to-the-minute international news. | ||
| Daily Mail |
The Daily Mail newspaper is accessible on mobiles via a specialised mobile site or a downloadable app. iPhone users will require a paid subscription. |
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| The Economist |
Weekly magazine taking an unbiased viewpoint on not only economic affairs, but on a range of political and business issues. |
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| Financial Times |
FT.com supports a range of disciplines from accounting and international relations to economics and management. To gain access to FT.com please use your Brunel University email address to create a unique username and password. | Mobile-friendly website |
iPhone & iPod touch, iPad, Android |
| The Guardian |
The Guardian newspaper is available via mobile devices in a number of ways. Please be aware the iOS apps have more content available but require a paid subscription. |
iPhone & iPod touch (subscription required), iPad (subscription required), Android, Windows mobile |
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| The Independent |
The Independent newspaper has a host of options for accessing its content on the go – a website designed for mobiles, and apps for iOS, Android and Blackberry users. |
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| ITN |
ITN news as it breaks on a variety of platforms. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android |
| Paperboy |
Paperboy is a list of links to the websites of regional, national and international newspapers; you can search for publication titles, but not for specific topics or articles. | ||
| Reuters |
Reuters is a well-known, Canadian-owned business news and financial information service. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android, Blackberry |
| Sky News |
Sky News is available on almost every device, via its mobile website or its large range of apps. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows mobile |
| The Telegraph |
The Daily & Sunday Telegraph are available free through the mobile version of its site; there are apps available but they require a paid subscription. |
Mobile-friendly website |
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| The Washington Post |
One of America’s leading daily newspapers, known for its political reporting, and with several foreign bureaus providing international news. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android |
Other Resources
| Name |
Info |
Website |
Apps |
| IMDb |
Comprehensive database of film, TV & video games. Updated daily. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android, Windows mobile |
| International Monetary Fund eLibrary |
Access and visualise IMF statistical data, as well as global economic reports and publications. |
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| OECD Factbook |
OECD Factbook provides a global overview of today’s major economic, social and environmental indicators. |
Apple, Android |
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| SpringerImages |
The SpringerImages app provides access to a continuously updated and expanding collection of over 300,000 free images spanning the scientific, technical and medical fields. |
Apple |
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| TED |
TED is a collection of free educational talks about "ideas worth spreading" in a wide range of science and cultural topics. |
Apple, Android |
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| United Nations CountryStats |
A data visualization tool to compare key economic, social, environmental, trade, and area & population indicators for 216 countries and territories. |
Apple |
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| Wikipedia |
The ubiquitous encyclopaedia has many options for mobile access. The official apps are linked here, but there are many other third-party apps for a variety of devices. |
Mobile-friendly website |
Apple, Android |
| Wolfram | Alpha |
The "computational knowledge engine" is a specialised search engine that is best for mathematics, computing, and analysing information. There is a mobile version of the site. There are also apps for iOS and Android but they are not free. |
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| World Bank Datafinder |
Comprehensive data about development in countries around the globe available on your mobile. |
Apple, Android |
