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Mobile and Browser Applications

Useful Library Apps for your Phone and Browser

Lean Library

Browser plugin for accessing Library full-text and resources in your Web Browser:

Automatically download Full-Text from websites using your University Account and recommend University Subscriptions that you might not know about.​

Free links to full-text books on Amazon and Google Books, request Interlibrary Loans and find help and guidance easily, with links to chat with the Library Team.

Download at https://download.leanlibrary.com/lancasteruniversity

Endnote Click

Browser plugin for accessing and organising Library full-text articles and uploading them to EndNote:

Access millions of research paper PDFs in one click on Web of Science, Meta, PubMed, arXiv, Scopus and thousands more academic websites. Save time navigating paywalls, logins and redirects.  Compatible with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera web browsers.

You can now also request Interlibrary Loans from the Library, and save papers as you browse with your Endnote Click Locker

Install Endnote Click 

(Note the EndNote Click password is different from your EndNote login)

Remarkable Plugin

You can send web content and PDF articles to your reMarkable paper tablet with the Read on reMarkable extension for Google Chrome. This works with many library resources, however some publishers with encrypted PDFs prevent this, but it rare.

Download Read on Remarkable

Mendeley Web Import

Import papers, web pages and other documents directly into your reference library from search engines and academic databases. Mendeley Web Importer is available for all major web browsers. https://www.mendeley.com/reference-management/web-importer

Refworks "Save to Refworks"

Save to RefWorks is a bookmarklet that you can install in your browser's favorites (bookmarks) bar. When you are browsing a website that has references that you would like to add to your RefWorks account, select the bookmarklet. RefWorks attempts to save the references and full texts.

Installation guidance at Connecting RefWorks to Browser, Microsoft Word, and Google Docs

 

Knovel

The Knovel Browser Extension allows you to find results from Knovel while you are looking for information on a Search Engine. If you are a Chrome or Edge user, install the extension, and whether you search on Google, or Bing, or Baidu, the top Knovel results will automatically appear on the right side of the page.

Further information can be found at app.knovel.com/kn/chrome-extension