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HMSOM Medical Elective: Developing Search Skills

This two-week elective will focus on developing your advanced literature searching techniques. We will dive into advanced features of PubMed, Scopus, Grey Literature databases and sources, pre-print servers, and others.

LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad, is a browser extension that automatically links to the full-text holdings of the HMSOM Library from PubMed and other databases, web pages and Google Scholar.

 

 

Installing LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that will identify and provide single click access to the full text holdings of the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Library from databases and websites such as PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and more.

Installing & Activating LibKey Nomad

Installing and activating LibKey Nomad is simple. You must first add the extension to your browser, then activate that extension. Just two quick simple steps! You can use any web browser; Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, etc

1. Adding LibKey Nomad directly from the LibKey Nomad homepage:

Visit libkeynomad.com and chose the icon for your browser. It will automatically take you to where you can install the correct browser extension.

 

Sample installing Chrome Extension for LibKey Nomad

  • Visit libkeynomad.com the LibKey Nomad homepage and click on your browser icon. I clicked on Chrome.
  • You are directed to the Chrome Store and the LibKey Nomad extension.
  • Click “Add to Chrome or Add Extension”

 

2. Activate the LibKey Nomad Extension

Now that the extension was added to your browser, you need to activate LibKey Nomad, or tie it to the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Library. To do this, click on the new icon in your browser, it prompts you to select your organization. Type in Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and you’re all done!

 

 

Now that you have activated LibKey Nomad, when you search a database such as PubMed or websites such as Google Scholar and others, you will have one click access to articles from Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Library - just by clicking the LibKey Nomad “Download PDF” button next to any supported citation. If a full-text article is not available, you will be connected to the HMSOM Library to create an Interlibrary Loan request for the article.

 

 

LibKey Nomad and Google Scholar

LibKey Nomad