Mobile Apps (Library on the GO)

Some of AIMS' subscriptions can be accessed via your mobile device. These include Science Direct, Nature, Web of Knowledge, and Scientific American.

Science Direct:

The Science Direct free app allows you to search for articles, view articles within the AIMS subscription and save them for offline viewing, and to share articles via email. To use the app. you must first create a personal account at the full Science Direct web site. 

1. Access Science Direct from your computer and click the link in the upper right hand corner to Register. 
2. Complete the registration form; click on the link provided in the confirmation email to activate your account.
3. Download the iOS or Android app to your mobile device. 
4. Login with your personal Science Direct username and password. 
5. You will receive a confirmation email; open the email on your mobile device and click the link to activate your mobile app authentication. 

Once authenticated, you will be able to search across the entire Science Direct collection and to access subscribed content from your mobile device. You can also save articles from subscribed journals to your device for offline reading.

More about the ScienceDirect mobile app.

Nature:

The Nature Journals app brings you the latest scientific news and research when and where you want it. Download the latest issues to browse at your convenience, zoom in on figures and images, save your searches, synchronize your bookmarks across devices and share your favorite articles

1. Go to nature.com mobile from an IP authenticated computer. 
2. Click Log In along the top navigation. 
3. Click Register to create a new account
4. After the username and password you have entered is verified, it will become active

More about nature.com mobile. 

Web of Knowledge:

You can access Web of Knowledge from anywhere at any time using your Web of Knowledge username and password. To use this Anywhere/Anytime Access on your mobile device, simply go to http://m.webofknowledge.com.

To use Anywhere/Anytime Access, you must have a Web of Knowledge username and password. 

1. Go to Web of Knowledge from an IP authenticated computer. 
2. Click Sign In along the top navigation. 
3. Click Register to create a new account. You will be asked to enter your email address to verify that an account does not already exist for you. 
4. If an account does not already exist, you will be prompted to fill in the User Registration page. 
5. After the username and password you have entered is verified, it will become active. 

More about Web of Knowledge Anywhere/Anytime Access.

Scientific American:

To download the iPad app for Scientific American:

1. Tap the Newsstand icon on your iPad
2. Tap on the Store button
3. Tap Featured
4. Search "Scientific American"
5. Download the App

There is one sign in account for all users. See the Mobile Apps (Library on the GO) document on the Information Services page in Aimscape for the username and password or contact the library. 

This account allows 5 people to sign in from different devices at once.