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LibKey allows quicker and easier access to library resource, helping you access the content you need

LibKey Searching Tools

As a member of the University of Essex you have access to LibKey apps. We use LibKey link and LibKey Discovery in our search engine and in third party sites such as PubMed to link you to our subscriptions and content in one click.

LibKey Nomad can be downloaded into your favourite browser and it will place an link/button on academic sites linking you to the full text where needed and lastly, LibKey.io can be used to search for DOI references - see below to download Nomad and search by DOI. LibKey Logo

LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad is a plugin for your web browser that lets you access articles while browsing the web. About LibKey Nomad (You Tube Video)

Download LibKey Nomad.

It can be installed on Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi. It is currently unavailable on Safari.

Once you've downloaded LibKey Nomad, just set your institution to University of Essex and the plugin will do the rest.

LibKey Nomad institution select screen showing University of Essex

Once set up, LibKey Nomad will do a couple of things.

  1. When looking at an article, it will create a button to access the article via the Library, through Open Access, or a previous version of the article.
  2. Links that lead towards an article page, such as references, will give the same link and take you through to the full version if available.

LibKey.io

LibKey.io allows you to search for articles via their DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

A DOI is a unique serial number given to every published article. It is usually a string of numbers.

You can use the LibKey.io search below (which also appears on our website) to find the article and find the quickest access to it.

Lookup a journal article by DOI or PMID

What is a DOI?

A DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, is a unique string of letters, numbers, and symbols attached to a file or document so that it can always be found on the internet. Even if the URL to the document changes, the DOI will always remain the same.

You can usually find an article or document's DOI with it's title or within the first page.

Examples of DOIs:

An Analysis of the Pricing of Traits in the U.S. Corn Seed Market is 10.1093/ajae/aaq063

The Characterization of Twenty Sequenced Human Genomes is 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001111