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Good to Know: Browser Extensions

What is LibKey?

Offered by Rensselaer Libraries, LibKey Nomad is a Google Chrome browser extension. Once installed, users will have single click access to Rensselaer Libraries' scholarly content as they research online, straight from publisher websites, Wikipedia, PubMed, Scopus, and more.

For a brief overview, and to learn how to install and use LibKey, watch our video below!

User Guide and Installation

 

If you would like to view a user guide flyer on LibKey, which details the various link buttons LibKey Nomad offers, click here.

To install LibKey from this library guide page, click here.

What is GetFTR?

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) is a free-to-use solution for academic discovery services and scholarly collaboration networks that provides researchers with faster access to the published research they need, whether subscription or open access.

The service provides real time, high quality entitlement checks and displays the GetFTR indicator on the search results, article page or references so that researchers can easily determine which content their institution has made available to them. By clicking the GetFTR link, the researchers can rapidly access research from participating publisher websites. Libraries and researchers do not need to opt-in, register, or download any new software, GetFTR links are automatically displayed in the resources they use.

User Guide and Installation

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Click here to learn more about how GetFTR was designed for researchers.

To install GetFTR from this library guide page, click here.