Option 1 |
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Bellevue |
Peninsula |
Wenatchee Valley+ |
Olympic |
Skagit Valley+ |
Whatcom |
Centralia |
LibKey Option # they have chosen (from here), + if customized text, Alma link resolver, or styling
Option 2 |
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Green River + |
Big Bend |
Highline + |
Lower Columbia + |
Yakima Valley |
Pierce District + |
Renton Technical |
LW Tech+ |
Spokane CC |
Spokane Falls CC |
South Puget Sound |
LibKey Option # they have chosen (from here), + if customized text, Alma link resolver, or styling
Options 3, 4 & 5 |
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North Seattle 3+ |
Seattle Central 3+ |
South Seattle 3+ |
Grays Harbor 4+ |
Bellingham Technical 5 |
Everett 5+ |
Shoreline 5+ |
LibKey Option # they have chosen (from here), + if customized text, Alma link resolver, or styling
LibKey is a set of services from Third Iron built on algorithms that link your journal content, both subscribed and open access, to reliable pdf and/or html versions with one click. It appears as a button in the brief item record on the Primo results page. It ties in with Google Scholar and has a Chrome extension, allowing your users to connect to content no matter how they're finding it.
Presentation to WACTCLC with Ted Tyson
Heavy researchers can download articles quickly without leaving Primo, inexperienced users can get connected to content without dead end links and confusing provider interfaces. Accessibility is improved because those using screen readers and other assistive technologies do not have to scan through as many screens and navigate cluttered buttons. Plus, it enhances the discovery of content in context through the integration of BrowZine for viewing the full journal issue contents.
The WACTCLC Executive Committee has determined LibKey to be a great value and voted to use surplus consortium funds to pay for the first two years of the service subscription for all WACTC colleges. All participants will be getting LibKey for free through June 30, 2026.
LibKey Nomad is a free browser extension that provides seamless one-click access to full text articles the library has access to directly from most publisher web pages as well as Wikipedia and PubMed.
To install the extension visit: https://thirdiron.com/downloadnomad/
Upon restarting your web browser you will now see buttons like this when you are looking at articles in PubMed, ScienceDirect, and other scholarly publisher platforms.
*When adding the extension your web browser may ask for permission to add the extension along with a message that it can "read and change data on the websites you visit." You see this message because LibKey Nomad must be able to read the pages and change them to add download buttons. No data about you or your searches is tracked and no account is required. For more about LibKey's privacy policy visit the Third Iron Privacy Policy page.