

Once you begin typing in the search box, a list of results will begin populating. You can search for journals by title, subject, or ISSN. Select the John Jay College library on the “Settings” page and then enter your John Jay user name and password-the same that you use for your John Jay email.

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For the app version, download the mobile app on your iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Alternatively, you can go to the Browse journals by subject link under Journal titles on the library website. To access the web version of BrowZine, you can go directly to. The app version focuses exclusively on the approximately 15,000 academic e-journals that have an ISSN or eISSN number, and is great for tracking and reading your favorite journals on the go from your phone or tablet. The web version also shows the impact factor for the different journals. The web version provides access to more content because it provides extra links to content through the Library website. All platforms allow you to view complete issues of e-journals that the Library subscribes to, dating back to 2005, including the table of contents. It has been compared to Flipster, an app for browsing popular magazines (available remotely to all NYPL library card holders), but for academic journals.īrowZine has a web version and mobile apps. BrowZine operates in a web environment but it uses journal covers and journal page images that have the look and feel of a bookshelf. In BrowZine, you can find any academic e-journal title that the Library subscribes to that has an ISSN or eISSN number. and context matters!īrowZine allows you to access and browse over 15,000 academic e-journals, much like you might browse their print counterparts.
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We think this is a good thing, since every year students and faculty at John Jay download the full text of about 1 million journal articles. Our speed-of-light, get-it-anywhere-anytime-online delivery methods provide access to these articles, often as an easy-to-access PDF-but without the context of the journal issue.īrowZine, the Library’s newest tool for browsing journals, is trying to change this. Much to the chagrin of journal editors, most of these journal articles are discovered as the result of keyword searches in databases, without any links to the journal issue. In other words, opportunities to cozy up with your favorite academic journal are fleeting. You would also discover that despite the abundance of these journals in the scholarly literature landscape, the vast majority of them are now only available electronically through libraries. If you did, one of the first things you would discover is that the majority of library databases provide access to scholarly journals-those peer reviewed, academic journals that are often required sources for papers and research projects, particularly in upper level courses and graduate work. On the Picture Format tab, select Color or Recolor, and then select Set Transparent Color.Ĭlick or tap the color in the picture or image that you want to make transparent.When you want library resources, do you typically think about looking for them in databases? Do you search the CUNY+ catalog for a book? Explore the Library’s growing streaming video collections by going to Films on Demand or one of the Alexander Street video databases? Or do you just head directly to a favorite database like JSTOR, PsycINFO, Project Muse or Google Scholar?Ĭhances are that you have your list of go-to sources and have not thought much about library databases on a more macro-level. Select the picture for which you want to change the transparency of a color. Go to Insert > Picture and add a picture to your document Transparent areas in pictures show through the color of the paper or background. You can make one color in a picture transparent to hide part of the picture or create a layered effect. Select Fill > Picture or gradient fill and then drag the Transparency slider to set the exact percentage of transparency you want. Select the shape, and go to Shape Format to open the Format Pane. Select Picture and choose the picture that you want. Go to Insert > Shapes and choose a shape to use. For more info, see Change the opacity of a picture in Microsoft 365.įor other versions of Word, use this workaround. If you're using a Microsoft 365 subscription, you can apply transparency directly to a picture. Change the transparency of a picture or fill color
