LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides links to full-text content for articles subscribed to by C-N Library, or open-access alternatives, while you do research on the open web (including scholarly publisher pages, PubMed and Wikipedia). Nomad will show you when the library has a subscription, and if not, will point you to other access options (like Interlibrary Loan).
Once installed, when you come across an article online, Nomad will inform you if the article is available via the library's subscriptions, or if there is an open-access copy available.
Follow this link to download the Chrome extension.
(LibKey is also available as a Firefox Add-on. See here for additional browser extensions.)
Once you have downloaded the extension to your browser, you just need to connect it to C-N Library. Here's how!
Open the extension, and find "Carson-Newman University" from the organization drop-down list:
The selection will be automatically saved. Now, when searching for articles on PubMed, Scholarly Publisher Pages, and Wikipedia, you will see the Libkey Nomad button. Just click on the button to see if you have access to the article through C-N Library. (Google Scholar will also be automatically connected to C-N Library after setting up LibKey.)
PubMed and LibKey Nomad.
Once set up, you will see the "Provided by Carson-Newman" LibKey link from the PubMed homepage:
In the search results, you will see three different LibKey buttons:
Article Link, Download PDF, and Access Options:
The Download PDF button will do as it says and the PDF of the article will be automatically downloaded.
The Article Link button means that we have the article, but it is available in full-text in a different databases (like CINAHL or ProQuest One). Clicking on this button will link out to the article (this option may prompt you to sign-in using your C-N email and password).
The Access Options button generally means that we do not have full-text access to the particular article. Following the Access Option link, however, will bring up a page with the option to request the item via Interlibrary Loan:
Using the "Article Link" Option
If you click into a title with the Article Link option, you will see the "Article Link" button, but you will also usually see Full-text links on the right, typically to journal publisher sites (in the example below, the link is to the SAGE journals site):
Use the Libkey "Article Link" button instead of the full-text link provided by PubMed. The full-text links provided by PubMed are typically only full-text options and require a subscription to access (you can bypass this by just using the "Article Link" option provided by LibKey, which will automatically connect you to C-N library databases).
Publisher Web Pages:
LibKey Nomad also works with Publisher websites, typically journal publishers. The same three LibKey buttons will show up on Publisher pages as in PubMed.
Here is an example of a Publisher page (BMJ Journals) with the LibKey "Article Link" button:
Clicking on the "Article Link" button will link out to one of the library's databases.
You will see the following screen after clicking the article link:
The full-text article should then open in a library database.
In this case, it is available in ProQuest One:
Wikipedia:
LibKey also works with Wikipedia. To find the LibKey links, you need to scroll to the bottom to the "References" page.
There you will see the LibKey links:
