Does trying to find the full text of an obscure journal article ever feel like looking for a needle in a haystack? A new tool available through the Auraria Library gives you a new and powerful magnet to find that proverbial needle—which users across CU Denver, MSU Denver, and CCD can install in their web browsers for free.
By installing it and setting your home library to Auraria Library, it integrates into web-browser searches you conduct––whether through the Library's search, Google Scholar, Research Gate, or many other search portals—to "crawl" the Auraria Library's 250+ proprietary, subscriber-only databases and its tens of thousands of available journals.
If you are searching for a specific article or text, LibKey tells you whether it’s freely available through the Auraria Library. If it is, it provides a direct link to that text.
“This means you can bypass paywalls, and access the scholarly content you’re looking for with ease,” says Auraria E-Resources Access Librarian Deborah Bumbie-Chi. “Whether you’re a CCD faculty member counseling a first-year undergraduate on how to find journal articles, or an MSU Denver master’s student trying to access obscure sources for your cybersecurity capstone, this new LibKey browser plug-in gives you one-click access to that article, wherever you search. Wherever you are on the Web, it brings the Auraria Library directly to you.”
Whether you’re a CCD faculty member counseling a first-year undergraduate on how to find journal articles, or an MSU Denver master’s student trying to access obscure sources for your cybersecurity capstone, this new LibKey browser plug-in gives you one-click access to that article, wherever you search.
The tool will work automatically while you are on the network either on campus, or on your own personal network. You can learn more about LibKey Nomad, and other LibKey tools the Auraria Library makes available to ease your scholarly searches HERE.
