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Top 30 Library iPhone Apps – Part 2
This is the second installment in a 3-part series listing library-oriented iPhone applications – all links go to iTunes where you can download the apps. Part one listed libraries with iPhone applications, and part three will list book-related apps. If you know of any other database or vendor iPhone apps, please list them in the comments below, and stay tuned next week for part-three!
Library Vendor & Database Apps
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Airpac for iPhone Cost: Free This mobile catalog application from Innovative Interfaces integrates library locations with Google maps, offers patrons full catalog search and the ability to request, renew, and place items on hold. |
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BookMyne for iPhone Cost: Free This iPhone app from SirsiDynix lets library patrons search the library catalog, place holds, renew items, and check their account details as well as navigate to the library’s home page. |
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AccessMyLibrary Cost: Free This handy iPhone app from Gale uses GPS to find libraries within a 10-mile radius of your location. You can then select a library and access all its Gale electronic resources. |
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SSRN Cost: Free This iPhone app allows patrons to access all of the 227,300 papers from the Social Science Research Network. |
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arXiv Cost: Free The arXiv iPhone app gives researchers access to over a half million e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics. |
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AIP’s iResearch Cost: Free The American Institute of Physics’ iResearch iPhone app lets researchers sign into AIP’s journals via their institution’s wifi network to save articles to their devices for future reading offline. |
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WorldCat Mobile Cost: Free Users can search through Worldcat’s collection of 1.5 billion items, find a nearby library, and map a route to a library through the WorldCat Mobile iPhone app. |
April 6th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I actually just wrote a blog post about iPhone apps for the scientific literature: http://bit.ly/9ccYzp
In addition to the ones you list, Nature Publishing Group has an iPhone app, as well as the American Chemical Society, several apps for searching PubMed and an app for Institute of Physics publications.
April 6th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Thanks so much for these great lists!
I’m having a friendly debate with colleagues about Gale’s AccessMyLibrary, because it’s really a mobile gateway to their regular website.
So, is this really a mobile app??
Thanks!
April 7th, 2010 at 9:58 am
ACS Mobile http://pubs.acs.org/page/tools/acsmobile/index.html (iPhone app)
IEEE Xplore http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/mobile/ (mobile interface)
Naxos Music Library http://naxosmusiclibrary.blogspot.com/2009/11/naxos-music-library-iphone-app-is-live.html (iPhone app)
Unbound Medline http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline
Mobile Medline Plus http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jan2010/nlm-22.htm
All EBSCOhost databases have a mobile version. The Gale app only works for public libraries.
I’ve try to keep up with them on my LibGuide here: http://researchguides.baylor.edu/library_resources_mobile_devices (which I’ve licensed CC for others to reuse.)