Discover LibKey Nomad: Seamless Access to Scholarly Articles
Sharon Duffy, MLIS, Research Services Librarian
Do you use Google Scholar, PubMed, or UpToDate? Install LibKey Nomad to streamline full text access!
No one affiliated with our library - including researchers, residents, students, faculty, and staff - should ever have to pay publisher prices for scholarly journal articles. We provide you with free access to the LibKey Nomad browser plugin so that you can easily connect to full text while you are searching online for articles.
Nomad will activate on scholarly websites like Google Scholar, PubMed, UpToDate, and hundreds of publisher websites to quickly connect you to full text. It will instantly check for full text availability from our library’s subscriptions and present you with the single best and fastest link to download the PDF, view the article, or request it from the library if it is not immediately available.
Installation takes only 10-20 seconds and can be started by clicking here: Install LibKey Nomad. Our institution is listed as LSU Health Sciences Center.
A few other features of LibKey Nomad:
- Alerts you when an article has been retracted
- Integrates with Covidence, the systematic review management tool, to streamline the process of loading full-text articles for screening
- Works on all desktop browsers including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari
- Also works on Wikipedia, Research Gate, Micromedex, and more research sites
If you’ve ever been frustrated by a paywall on a publisher website or irritated by the number of clicks to check for full text in PubMed, install LibKey Nomad to save time while doing research.
Please contact us at reference@lsuhsc.edu with any questions or for assistance with using LibKey Nomad.