Check for access to a web resource
If you find a journal article or other resource through a search engine, please be aware that we may not subscribe to it.
You might already know that you can search for an article title in LibrarySearch or for the title of the journal itself in our Find e-journals page. But we also provide tools that let you customise your web browser so you can check for access without visiting our webpages.
LibKey Nomad for Kent
By downloading this browser extension to your PC you can check whether we have access to a journal article OR ebook and link to it quickly and easily. This is especially useful when you are searching off campus.
- Go to the LibKey Nomad download page
- Choose your browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave and Vivaldi)
- Once installed, open LibKey from your browser and select University of Kent to link it to our collections and subscriptions
This will save these settings to the browser on your computer. Now, when you search, you will get links through to the content that we have access to, including on Google Scholar.
Using LibKey Nomad
The LibKey Nomad button will now appear at the side of your browser when you find a journal article. If the article is accessible by our library subscription or open access, you can instantly download the PDF or click through to the article.
If the article you searched for is not available the Access Options button will appear and direct you to further options for obtaining a copy.
No Access?
If you discover we don’t have the full text to an article, don’t panic, you can use our Document Delivery Service to request digital copies of journal articles delivered to your desktop.
Note: There is a limit to how many items you can request through this service each year, so check the article’s abstract first to make sure you really need this.