Browzine is a new way to browse, read, monitor and organize scholarly journals on your iPad or Android tablet. It can also alert you when new issues of journals are published.
New York Times: Users can activate their free NYT Academic Pass account by starting at accessnyt.com when connected to the campus network. Once activated, the student academic pass is valid through their year of graduation; faculty and staff passes are valid for 4 years, and can be renewed. A helpful video is available to walk you through the free account activation process.
Washington Post: When connected to the campus network, users can go directly to washingtonpost.com and receive full content access without having to log in. However, to save articles, subscribe to newsletters, use the app, or to access articles when off the campus network, users can create their Washington Post account with their VCU email to activate individual subscription access.
A great way to keep up with new developments in your research area is to save your search as an alert. Once you've found some good publications, your search will run again on its own and send new results when they appear to your email (or you can often choose RSS). To sign up for alerts you need to use the personalization feature of the database. Sign up is free, and doesn't have to be linked to your eID and password.
If you want to follow new articles from your favorite journals, most journals have a similar feature for table of contents alerts. If it doesn't, you can still use a database search for the journal's title and set an alert to see when new articles from that journal appear in the database.
The sign up/in link is usually found in the upper right corner of the database or journal window. Here are links to instructions for some of VCU Libraries' most-used database platforms.
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