JournalPass
What is it?
JournalPass is our off-campus/wireless bookmarklet for your browser that allows you to connect to journals and databases without having to start at the library web site.
If you are off-campus or on-campus on the wireless network and encounter a restricted access subscription article or e-resource, just click on the JournalPass bookmarklet that you’ve previously installed. JournalPass will redirect you to authenticate with your BGSU login credentials and then automatically return you to the restricted article or resource you were trying to view.
Use case #1: You are at home, reading an email from a colleague at another institution. She has included a link to an article on a publisher's website. You click on the link, and find that it is a restricted subscription item. Rather than copying the citation information, navigating to the library home page, and pasting or typing the citation information into one of the library databases or into Summon, simply click on the JournalPass bookmarklet which will prompt you to authenticate with your BGSU login credentials and then redirect you to the article.
Use case #2: You are searching in Google Scholar, Google, or some other search engine and find an article or subscription resource of interest to you. Instead of starting over again with the citation in the library databases, click on the JournalPass bookmarklet which will prompt you to authenticate with your BGSU login credentials and then redirect you to the subscription resource.
Note: BGSU Libraries must have a subscription to the journal or database in question.
Installing:
Firefox: Grab the JournalPass icon and drag it to the bookmark bar
Chrome: Grab the JournalPass icon and drag it to the bookmark toolbar (it must be visible, use ctrl-shift-b to enable it)
Internet Explorer: right-click the JournalPass icon and "add to favorites"
Safari: Grab the JournalPass icon and drag it to the bookmark bar
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On a mobile device?
First you will need to create a bookmark of this page. Then edit the bookmark and change the url to the text below.
