University Libraries

BookMyne is an app that enables you to search the Tarleton University Libraries Catalog. You can even log into your account using your UID number in order to renew items and see what you have checked out. 

EBSCO offers a mobile interface for most of its research databases. Using Ebsco Mobile, you can find articles on general topics from all the different Ebsco Databases

 EBSCO has just released an app for both iPhone/iPod and androids.  Click the link at the bottom of any EBSCOhost page to email yourself the download instructions, access key and a link to the app store.

The Gale Access My Library College Edition app from Gale allows you to search databases from an iPhone or iPad.

Users must download the free app from the iTunes store, and then locate Tarleton State University in the navigation menu. Enter your Tarleton email address to have an access password emailed to you.

Once authenticated, you can search the Libraries' Gale databases and ebooks from your mobile device. The search interface is not optimized for mobile, however, and the user will be directed to the same web sites one can access from the Libraries' web page.

JSTOR has released a new beta mobile interface that allows you to search JSTOR's scholarly journals  and then email the citations to yourself so you can read the articles later on a computer.

The Annual Review Mobile website is optimized for the iPhone, iPod touch, and Android. You can browse journals and articles, search journals by keyword, author, title, and view abstracts freely. After an authentication process, you will be able to read articles from the Libraries' subscribed titles.

The authentication process is described on the Annual Reviews web site. Essentially, after downloading the app from the Apple App Store or Android Market, you will want to access the Annual Reviews web site from a computer on the Tarleton's network and create a personal Annual Reviews account that can then be linked to your mobile device.

WorldCat Mobile lets you search 50 million+ items in libraries worldwide from your phone. Use WorldCat to locate books, entire journals, dissertations and theses, videos, audio recordings, manuscript materials, and other publication types. Items identified in WorldCat may be borrowed from other libraries using our ILLiad Interlibrary Loan service.

A free iPhone app is also available for download at the iTunes store.

Google Book Search now offers a mobile site with more than 1.5 million public domain books that can be read with most phones.

While there is not yet a dedicated app for Google Scholar, you can use the general Google mobile app to locate some scholarly materials.

Classical Music Library and the Contempory World Music collections, lets you download music! When viewing an album or track that you wish to access via your mobile device, look for the mobile icon . Click the icon and you will have the option of sending a text message to you phone with a link to the track; capturing a short link to enter directly into your browser, or scanning a QR code to access the track.

The Mango application was designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch but also works with the iPad.  It offers the same functionality as Mango’s online self-study language learning software. Once installed, the program does not require Internet access, patrons just download what they need when they need it.

Nature offers an iPhone app that allows researchers to access articles and news stories from Nature journals. The Nature mobile app also allows users to search PubMed for recent articles.

To use the Nature Mobile app, faculty and students will first want to register for a personal Nature account while on campus. Once your personal account has been created, you can use those credentials to log into the Nature iPhone app.

IOPscience Express App - Allows you to view and download papers from IOP-owned journals which have been published over the last two years.

PubMed Handheld from the National Library of Medicine allows you to search medicine. In addition, this site offers access to askMEDLINE, a consumer health reference source, and the PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) database.

There is also a PubMed on Tap iPhone app available for purchase at the iTunes store.

IEEE Xplore, now has a mobile interface with free search of all IEEE Xplore documents directly on your mobile device. You can view up to 10 article abstracts per search. To view full-text articles, send the article links to your e-mail address.

SciVerse ScienceDirect App - With the SciVerse ScienceDirect iPhone app, you can look up and read a paper, share the PDF, or just explore what's out there.

Get healthcare e-sources on the go with this mobile application available for both the iPhone and Blackberry, and the android support with be available soon.

Taylor & Francis Online provides mobile access via iPhone, Android, Blackberry and tablet devices to the 1,600 journals and reference works. Access it by typing the URL www.tandfonline.com into the browser of a mobile device.  There are also help and instructions available at http://www.tandfonline.com/page/help/mobile.