This guide provides an overview of LibKey research tools, designed to streamline access to full text resources available via MIT Libraries. There are multiple LibKey tools to help with finding full text content. See details about how to use each of the following:
LibKey integrates with the MIT Libraries catalog, Search Our Collections. LibKey makes finding and accessing full-text articles in the library's collection seamless. When you search, you'll find direct links to available full-text content in your search results.
LibKey has a browser extension called Nomad that can help provide access to library-licensed content and open access articles when you are browsing the open web.
Whenever you're on a website with academic articles, LibKey Nomad will automatically check if we provide access to them. If available, you'll see an icon or notification allowing direct access to articles. Here are a few examples.
LibKey Nomad behaves much the same way in PubMed, except you may also see links to complete journal issues. This allows for browsing the table of contents for the issue in which an article appears, increasing the chance that you will discover similar articles in the same publication.
You will also see Nomad In Wikipedia that will help with seeing full text access options in the list of references for Wikipedia entries.
BrowZine is like a digital magazine shelf for academic journals. It lets you browse, read, and save citations to scholarly journals.
You can find journals by title, subject or issn, as well as save journals and articles to your bookshelf for later reference.