Library Apps on your Smartphone

A number of relevant applications have been listed below, but the list can never be exhaustive as new "Apps" are becoming available regularly. If no price is mentioned applications are free of charge. Sometimes special settings have to be used to consult journals and bibliographies that the library subscribes to.

	Name / URL	Platform	Notes
	ACS Mobile	I-Phone I-Pad I-Pod Touch Android	Price USD 2,99 ACS = American Chemical Society
	ArXiv.org	I-Phone I-Pad I-Pod Touch	Formerly Los Alamos preprint archive, now maintained at Cornell University
	Beilstein	I-Pad Android	Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
	Cambridge Journals Online Mobile	Mobile website	Features Cambridge Jounals Online Mobile (CJOm) explained
	EBSCO Mobile	All systems
	Informa Healthcare	I-Phone I-Pad , I-Pod Android BlackBerry	Informa Healthcare usage guide
	JSTOR Mobile	Mobile website
	Nature.com	I-Phone I-Pad	Register at Nature.com first (free)
	Patent Genius	I-Phone Android	Price USD 0.99
	Patent Search	I-Phone Android
	PubMed Apps	Various	PubMed Mobile, DailyMed, PubMed for handhelds a.o.
	Science	I-Phone Android
	Scientific American	Android I-Phone I-Pod Touch
	Sciverse Scopus Alerts	I-Phone I-Pad I-Pod Touch	Register at Scopus first (free).
	SciVerse ScienceDirect	I-Phone I-Pad I-Pod Touch	Register at Sciencedirect first (free).
	SciVerse Applications	Various	SciVerse applications that improve search and discovery on SciVerse ScienceDirect, Scopus or Hub.
	Taylor & Francis	I-Phone I-Pad Android BlackBerry
	WorldCat Mobile	Mobile website
	WorldCat Apps	Various
Mobile apps and websites for reference software
	EndNote	Mobile website
	Mendeley Reference Manager	I-Phone I-Pad

Smartphones and Tablet PCs (such as iPad) can also be used for scientific ‘content’. On forums such as the 'Android market' or Apple’s 'App Store', special 'Apps' (Applications) can be downloaded through the mobile network.

Through these special applications, publishers such as Elsevier with 'Sciverse Sciencedirect’ and Nature Publishing Group give access to their journals. Even personal alerts can sometimes be set up. There are also applications that can interface with bibliographies such as PubMed, WorldCat or Sciverse Scopus.

And, finally, some publishers and other providers, such as Cambridge University Press and JSTOR, have not created their own App but maintain a separate website that can be optimized for mobile devices.