The Leiden Search Assistant makes it easy to search the UBL Library Catalogue, Google Scholar, PubMed and WorldCat at the same time from within any web page. Simply type in key words on the search bar or select words in a text on the web and right click. 

The plug-in is available for Chrome en Firefox.

A selection of platforms allow direct login through SURFconext. Get access to the licensed content of the library by:

• Selecting Institutional Login or Login
• Searching for your institution
• Filling in your username and password

Platforms using SURFconext are:

• Inview Essential (Kluwer Navigator)
• Juridisch-Economisch Lexicon
• Legal Intelligence
• NLFiscaal
• EBSCOhost (access to all databases: Art Index, Bibliography of Asian Studies, ebookcollection, MLA International Bibliography, APA Psycarticles, APAPsycinfo, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Philosophers Index, etc)
• Van Dale online woordenboeken
• Beeld en geluid op school
• Elsevier Reaxys
• Elsevier ScienceDirect

Browser extension for simple and quick access to academic articles, journals and databases licensed by the library when searching on the web (please note: not compatible with mobile phones).

Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox

Go to the homepage of the Catalogue and drag the button UBL Get Access  to your browser’s Favorites Bar (Bookmarks Toolbar). This will create a new bookmark named UBL Get Access.  The installation is one-time only. Please note: this tool is not compatible with mobile phones.

Safari (Apple computers)

• Create a random bookmark in your browser’s Favorites Bar (Bookmarks Toolbar)
• Edit the properties of this bookmark
• Change the name of the bookmark to UBL Get Access (or any name you choose)
• Copy the code below and paste it as the URL for the bookmark: javascript:void(location.href='https://login.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl/login?url='+location.href)

Quick access to your favourite academic e-journals on your tablet or PC with the free app BrowZine: full text, always up-to-date.

Leiden University staff and students can read academic e-journals through the app BrowZine, available for smartphone, tablet, laptop, and PC. Once logged in, BrowZine offers access to the latest full text articles and to journal archives dating back to 2005. You can save articles for offline access, annotate, share with your social network, and receive alerts.

For smartphone or tablet:

• Download the app for Apple or Android from your appsstore
• Log on once with your ULCN details
• Search journals by title or subject
• Save your favourites to your digital book shelf in the app

For laptop or PC:

• Go to https://www.browzine.com 
• Within the university network you can get started immediately
• Working from home or elsewhere, choose Leiden University and log in with your ULCN account

Add-on for all popular browsers that generates links to full texts, which are licensed by the university library or freely available online.

The Leiden library catalogue and many of the article databases the UBL subscribes to are accessible through Google Scholar. In order to access these resources, you must first set Google Scholar to recognize our subscriptions.

► Go to Google Scholar and click Settings.

►  Click Library Links and search for Leiden. Check the boxes next to the Leiden University Libraries link. Then click on Save.

►  GetIt@Leiden will now appear next to the articles. Click on it to see if a book or article is accessible through the Leiden University network. If not, search the catalogue for the printed version.

Get an overview of your topic and discover relevant documents through visual search. Just type in a few broad keywords related to your topic and Open Knowledge Maps will retrieve the 100 most relevant papers for this topic and group them according to theme.

With this Open Source metasearch engine for Open Access articles you can easily get around paywalls or request access from registered authors. Open Access Button can be used online via the website or as a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox. If you’re online, just enter an article URL, DOI, PMID ID, Title or Citation. If the article is available, you’ll be provided a link to where it can be accessed (often an institutional repository). 

Alternatively, if you’ve downloaded the extension for Chrome or Firefox, just visit the article page on the journal’s website and click the OA button in your browser.

Unpaywall is a browser plug-in that will tell you when a scientific journal article is available for free, either to you or anyone else. It indicates that the article is legally available through author archiving, a repository, or through Open Access.

Unpaywall is available for most major browsers and, once installed, it will present a simple “unlocked” icon when a given article is available without restriction. Just click the    icon on the right side of the screen to access the full article.

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) is a metasearch engine for Open Access research papers, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is delivered by the Open University (UK). A browser extention helps users to discover freely accessible copies of research papers.