Browzine and Field Museum: BrowZine

Browse scholarly journals available from the Field Museum Library on your tablet device, phone (iPhone, Android), or via the web using BrowZine. You can save and read articles on or offline; you can also organize your results into shelves. In BrowZine, you can find scientific articles and periodicals subscribed to by the Field Museum all in one location. If you are affiliated with another institution that uses BrowZine, you can create multiple accounts. You must create an account to use BrowZine.

• Access thousands of scholarly journals anywhere you have WiFi access.

• View complete issues of journals including the table of contents.

• Create a personal library of your favorite journals for easy access on your BrowZine interface.

• Be alerted when a new issue of a journal is published.

• Save articles on your mobile device to read later even when you are offline.

• Download BrowZine articles to Mendeley, Zotero, and other citation services to help keep track of your research.

BrowZine using a web browser

1. Open your favorite web browser.
2. Go to browzine.com
3. Click Choose My Library.
4. Select Field Museum.
5. Go to Settings.
6. Under BrowZine Account, click Login.
7. Click Sign up to create an account.
8. Browse journals by clicking BrowZine Library, or search for journals by title, subject, or ISSN.  Add journals to your bookshelf by clicking on a journal, then clicking Add To My Bookshelf.

BrowZine App for smartphones/tablets

1. Download the free BrowZine app by going to the app store for your device and searching for “BrowZine.”
2. Select Field Museum from the library list.
3. You will be prompted to log in with the account you created in the BrowZine web app.  If you use BrowZine remotely, you will be prompted to authenticate. Please email library@fieldmuseum.org for questions regarding remote access credentials.