New Year, New Users! By all accounts the 2013 holiday season was a great one for tablet manufacturers.  Apple and Samsung alone are expected to have shipped over 37 MILLION tablets in just December.  With so many people buying tablets, not to mention the millions of current users, it's likely that many of your researchers are returning to campus this month with a shiny new device. Welcome these new mobile users with BrowZine!  Our Marketing Tools for Libraries make promoting BrowZine easy. … [Read more...]

The October issue of the Charleston Advisor contains a very thorough review of BrowZine by Vera Lux at Bowling Green State University where the service was rated a composite score of 4 of 5 stars! From the review: With the ever-increasing transition to electronic-only journal hold- ings and full text databases, the ability to browse academic journals has become more difficult. BrowZine aims to restore this ability to scholars by leveraging the power and popularity of tablet devices. The product … [Read more...]

Based on popular demand, we will be posting our regular newsletters! July 2013 Newsletter Android Now Available We are very excited to announce that BrowZine for Android tablets is now available!  We are officially supporting the Google Nexus, Samsung Galaxy, and Kindle Fire HD on the Ice Cream Sandwich platforms. For libraries that have signed up for Android access, please find and download BrowZine at the Google Play or Amazon stores.  Then, find your school and start browsing! Interest in … [Read more...]

BrowZine was recently reviewed in the very well-read blog "Professor Hacker" at the Chronicle of Higher Education.  As the reviewer writes: Browzine could be a very useful technology. I can imagine sitting down with it and over a cup of coffee, scanning through the latest journals in my field. It certainly has been enjoyable scanning through the latest number of American Literary History. This review has spurned hundreds of emails, downloads and tweets helping to bring BrowZine to more and more … [Read more...]

The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services recently announced a partnership with Third Iron that will provide access to BrowZine for a number of Michigan libraries.  As they note in their press release, this is a "pilot program to investigate the feasibility of a direct marketing service for its members." MCLS quotes me as saying that I could not be more thrilled, and they are right.  I've had the terrific pleasure of working with MCLS throughout my professional career, starting when when … [Read more...]

Nancy Dowd recently wrote of the difficulty libraries have in successfully marketing their services, an observation Michelle Kraft noted has been bouncing around in her head ever since she read it.  It’s been bouncing around in my head, too. We have been thrilled with the excitement around BrowZine and grateful to count a growing number of libraries as our customers.  But selling a subscription is just the start of what we want to be a long partnership, both with our libraries and the people … [Read more...]

      BrowZine was recently featured in a the BMJ Group Blogs post noting that Browzine is: ...a new iPad app, free to students, that could make academic research a far less cumbersome experience. The blog post goes on to note some of the great features of BrowZine and the large number of schools either subscribing or in the middle of a trial of the service. You can read the full blog write up here. … [Read more...]

The focus of everyone at Third Iron is on creating the best products we can so it is very rewarding to start the New Year having received several compliments on BrowZine. Librarians at universities are helping to spread the word about their experience with some great tweets.  Jhkrivickas said hello with “Hey BrowZine! L.O.V.E. you…”; carliebrary let us know, “I think the app is genius, great UI”; and WelchLibrary started their subscription with a tweet “We think it will be a hit.”  (So far the … [Read more...]

        BrowZine was featured in a recent article on The Krafty Librarian in an article titled "The Future of ePub Browsing".  Michelle Kraft wrote up this great review which goes into good detail about the feature set of BrowZine: “To say I was blown away was an understatement.  Finally now after all these years, people will be able to browse the table of contents easily AND connect to the article via the library’s subscription in an extremely easy way.  The concept of … [Read more...]