Crashes upon opening
Latest update continuously crashes within 10 seconds
Very buggy
Stuck trying to find a full text article - when clearly, if you just tap on the screen, you can see in the background that it has loaded the page that it needs to. It just doesn’t show it.
What’s the point of the app if it doesn’t let you read the journal articles?
What’s the point of the app if it doesn’t let you read the journal articles?
Programmers have been responsive
I use BrowZine on the iPad format. The program was formally a good usable platform for reading journals. However, in the past several months, it has become almost unusable. I primarily use it for reading the New England Journal of Medicine. Formerly articles downloaded in a matter of seconds, now it takes up to one to two minutes for each article to load. Formally I was required to sign in one time to start a program session, now I have to sign in frequently. Scrolling is much less intuitive or reliable than it once was and I am periodically thrown out of an article which I’m reading and have to start the reloading process again. this makes for a very frustrating user experience. After filing the above review the BrowZine programmers did get in touch with me and did help me work through some of the interface problems. It turns out that the BrowZine interface is a little different for each institution which has its own internal formatting and requirements. Although not perfect, the user experience has certainly improved.
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Love it
This is a great app for those wanting to keep track of new titles in a wide range of academic journals. The university systems enabling access has hiccup prompts that make access to PDFs less efficient but the app is great overall.
Unread view is a game-changer
Love this app and its ability to help me follow new articles across journals. The unread view is something I just discovered and has changed my workflow significantly for the better to quickly review new articles in press and across issues. 5 stars, essential for academic medicine.
