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In the "classic" InfoLinks library catalog, you don't need to scramble for a pen and paper. Just text that call number and location to your cell phone and then proceed to the library stacks. Save a tree; send a text.

WorldCat Mobile lets you search the world's catalog of more than almost 150 million items in libraries worldwide from your phone. Use WorldCat to locate books, entire journals, dissertations and theses, videos, audio recordings, manuscript materials, and other publication types. Items identified in WorldCat may often be borrowed from owning libraries using the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan service.

The Annual Reviews Mobile website provides a personalized browsing, searching, and reading experience optimized for the iPhone, iPod touch, and Android. You can Browse journals and articles, search journals by keyword, author, title, and view abstracts freely. After an authentication process, you will be able to read articles from the Libraries' subscribed titles.

The innovative authentication process is described on the Annual Reviews web site. Essentially, after downloading the app from the Apple App Store or Android Market, you will want to access the Annual Reviews web site from a computer on the UofA network and create a personal Annual Reviews account that can then be linked to your mobile device.

Ebsco offers a mobile interface for most of its research databases. Using Ebsco Mobile, you can find articles on general topics (Ebsco Academic Search) or on specific subjects such as agriculture (AGRICOLA and CAB Abstracts), business (Ebsco Business Source), education (ERIC), history, (Historical Abstracts), literature (MLA International), nursing (CINAHL), and psychology (PsycINFO).

Ebsco has also released custom apps for both iPhone / iPad and Andoid.  To download these:

1. Visit any Ebsco database from your computer. 
2. At the bottom of the screen, click the link to Ebscohost iPhone and Android Applications.
3. You will be prompted to enter your UARK email address. 
4. Access the email instructions from ephost@epnet.com on your phone.  
5. Choose the app you would like to install. 
6. Return to the email and tap the authentication key which will authorize your device to access the UofA Ebsco databases.
   Be sure to cick the authentication key within 24 hours of receiving the email;otherwise, you will have to download a new key by requesting a second email. 
7. The authentication will expire after 7 months and you will need to go through the email process again. 

More information can be found on the Ebsco support site

The Gale Access My Library College Edition app from Gale allows you to search popular databases such as Literature Resource Center and Biography in Context from an iPhone, iPad, or Android device. 

To use the Access My Library app:

1. Download the free app from iTunes store or Android market.
2. Choose Arkansas and finf  University of Arkansas Libraries in the navigation menu.
3. Enter your uark.edu email address to have an access password emailed to you.
4. Enter the access password and then choose Access Library
5. Choose Gale Databases  to see a list of available databases, including Biography in Context, Business and Company Resource Center, and mote.
6. Choose Gale eBooks to see alist of electronic references works, including hundreds of works on authors and literature.

Google Book Search now offers a mobile site with more than 1.5 million public domain books that can be read with most phones.

While there is not yet a dedicated app for Google Scholar, you can use the general Google mobile app to locate some scholarly materials.

IEEE Xplore, the compilation of articles, conference proceedings, and standards on topics in electronics and electrical engineering, has added new features to their mobile interface.

IEEE Xplore Mobile provides free search of all IEEE Xplore documents directly on your mobile device. You can view up to 10 article abstracts per search. To view full-text articles, send the article links to your e-mail address.

New features include the ability to refine a search with additional terms or by using subject filters. A predictive type-ahead feature, which suggests searches as you type, is available for mobile devices that are JavaScript-enabled. If you log into the UA wireless, you will be able to read PDFs with your mobile device.

JSTOR has released a new beta mobile interface that allows you to search JSTOR's hundreds of scholarly journals while you're on the go, and then email the citations to yourself so you can read the articles later on a computer. You can zoom in to see pages if you are using a network recognized as having access to JSTOR and your phone supports zooming. Browse by discipline or journal title or search by keyword. Some of the authentication kinks are still getting worked out; be sure to take their survey and let JSTOR know what you think.

RefWorks Mobile allows you to access your personal RefWorks account on the go. Search for, view, edit, and organize references for your research projects from your phone. New to RefWorks? Here's more info.

If you are off-campus, you will need to input the UARK group code and then your personal login and password for access to RefWorks Mobile.

Science Mobile app for iPhone or Android allows you to read summaries and abstracts from Science, Science Signaling, and Science Translational Medicine; read career advice from Science Careers while searching for and applying to jobs; listen to Science Podcasts; and read the latest news and blogs from ScienceNOW.

From the app, you can email links to research articles in order to access the full text. Remember to proxify any urls so that they will work for you from off-campus.

All 1,000,000+ images from the ARTstor Digital Library are now accessible through iPad, iPhone, and the iPod Touch to registered ARTstor users.

ARTstor Mobile provides read-only features such as searching, browsing, zooming, and viewing saved image groups. Also try the new Flashcard View, which allows you to test your knowledge by viewing the image without textual information, and then flipping the image to reveal the image record.

To access ARTstor Mobile, you must first create an account on the full ARTstor site. Thereafter, you can navigate with your mobile device to http://mobile.artstor.org and log in with your ARTstor login and password.

Alexander Street's Music Library Online, including the Classical Music Library and the American Song collections, now offers send to mobile functionality. When viewing an album or track that you wish to access via your mobile device, look for the mobile icon . Click the icon and you will have the option of sending a text message to you phone with a link to the track; capturing a short link to enter directly into your browser, or scanning a QR code to access the track.

New to QR codes? Many smartphones have the ability to scan a QR (Quick Response) codes; a special type of barcode embedded in a print or online publication. Scan the QR code with your phone, and you will be redirected to the track or album online.

Ready for some tunes, but bummed that Pandora doesn't have those Renaissance dance tunes nor Chinese pipa classics you crave? The new Naxos Music Library iPhone App lets you access more than 37,000 cds (more than 500,000 tracks) of all kinds of music, including classical, jazz, blues, world, folk, and even spoken word.

The Naxos iPhone app will allow you to listen to playlists already created on the Naxos web site. You can create personal playlists or listen to those your instructor has created for your class. For more info, check our Naxos User Guide and Naxos Faculty Guide.

arXiv, the collection of preprints and shared research in physics, mathematics, computer science, and related fields, has several iPhone apps that allow you to check the latest papers from your phone. The arXiv app, developed by mathematician Greg Landweber, is free on iTunes.

Nature offers an iPhone app that allows researchers to access the latest articles and news stories from Nature journals and read them on the go.

To use the Nature Mobile app, faculty and students will first want to register for a personal Nature account while on campus. Once your personal account has been created, you can use those credentials to log into the Nature iPhone app.

The Nature mobile app also allows users to search PubMed for recent articles.

PubMed Handheld from the National Library of Medicine allows you to search the comprehensive record of research on medicine. In addition, this site offers access to askMEDLINE, a consumer health reference source, and the PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) database.

There is also a PubMed on Tap iPhone app available for purchase at the iTunes store.

IEEE Xplore, the compilation of articles, conference proceedings, and standards on topics in electronics and electrical engineering, has added new features to their mobile interface.

IEEE Xplore Mobile provides free search of all IEEE Xplore documents directly on your mobile device. You can view up to 10 article abstracts per search. To view full-text articles, send the article links to your e-mail address.

New features include the ability to refine a search with additional terms or by using subject filters. A predictive type-ahead feature, which suggests searches as you type, is available for mobile devices that are JavaScript-enabled. If you log into the UA wireless, you will be able to read PDFs with your mobile device.

The Scitation service, which hosts journals from the American Insitute of Physics, ASCE. ASME, and other scholarly societiesin the physical sciences, has developed the iResearch tool, an offline article reader for the iPhone.

While on campus, access the Scitation web site through the app, and download articles of interest to you. After the articles have been downloaded to your iPhone, you can access them anywhere, even without a wi-fi connection.

Get the free iResearch app at the iTunes store.

But what's the best mobile research app of all? It's your librarians, of course! Remember that you can call us or text us for research help:

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