Staying current with your Christie BrowZine app and a chance to win a £10 Amazon voucher

BrowZine App – allows you to keep abreast with current articles in your favourite journals – EASILY!

To encourage Christie staff to get the most out of this app we are running a £10 Amazon voucher prize draw

• Last entry date: 5pm Wednesday 28th March
• Any current Christie staff or student may enter
• To be entered into the draw, you need to send us a screen shot of your bookshelf page (instructions below)
• Entries to be sent to library@christie.nhs.uk clearly marked BrowZine Draw
• Make sure you add your name if you are not using an email address which gives us your name
• The prize winner will be notified by email and provide a comment so we can announce it via this blog

And this is what you need to do ……

People who already have the app but not the bookshelf start at Instruction 3!

1. Download BrowZine

2. Choose Library: Christie NHS Foundation Trust and enter your OpenAthens Username and Password.  Don’t have one? Self register here

3. You arrive at the search page (in will look slightly different on an Android but you still search for a title) where you can look for your favourite journal e.g. BMJ

4. Click on your journal title to upload the current issue and press the relevant tab of your phone or tablet as shown in the diagram below to add to My Bookshelf

5. At this point it will ask you to register with an email.  You will need to click on Continue and then Sign up

 

6. Follow the instructions which will include activating an email link.  Your selected journal should be added to the My Bookshelf once this process is complete.

7. Take an image of this page and post it to library@christie.nhs.uk with your name if not obvious from your email

Apart from the chance to win a prize, why do this?

After a while you will note numbers occur on the edge of your app and on journals on your bookshelf.  This tells you that there are new articles to read.  These can be download to My Articles and read when and where it suits you.For further tips, visit the Third Iron site

“Since downloading BrowZine, I have read more useful articles than I ever did before” Gary Thirkell, Infection Control Team