Smartphones such as the iPhone have revolutionized the way we communicate, work, and play. Now, that revolution has come to the way we do research.

Boyce Library Mobile puts the full collection of the James P. Boyce Centennial Library in the palm of your hand by bringing its two most powerful search platforms, Primo and EBSCOhost, to your smartphone.

Look up library items, download full text articles, place ILL requests, and more, all on your smartphone.

Instant Results

Primo mobile gives you access to the entire print collection of the James P. Boyce Centennial Library.

It also gives you access to premiere research databases such as Academic Search and JSTOR.

Just type in your search terms, click search, and Primo instantly will find everything related to your search and display the items in an easy-to-read format. It will even display call number and availability for books held by our library.

Interlibrary Loan

Find an item not held at Boyce Library while searching on the go? No problem. You can request items via ILL in Primo Mobile.

Just like in the desktop version of Primo, tap the Services button and an ILL option will appear. Tap Go, fill in the form, and let our ILL staff do the rest.

We’ll send you an email when your item arrives.

EBSCOhost Mobile

Premier Databases

EBSCOhost Mobile gives you access to our most popular databases, including ATLA, OT and NT Abstracts, Academic Search Premier, and Christian Periodical Index.

You can select one or more databases to search from the Choose Databases menu.

After you’ve selected a database, type in your search terms and instantly retrieve all the information related to your search, including many articles with full text available.

Interactive Results

EBSCOhost Mobile gives you results that are interactive so that you can work with them however you want.

You can email results to yourself from EBSCOhost Mobile so that you won’t forget your search or how you found an important resource. You can even choose to email yourself a single result or an entire list of results.

If you get too many results, you can refine your search to try and narrow it down to just those items that are most relevant for your study.

Full Text Access

EBSCOhost Mobile provides full text access whenever it is available, allowing you to read an article right on your mobile device.

If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch with iOS 4, you can download full text articles to iBooks. Next time you sync your iPhone, your articles will automatically sync with your iTunes library.

If you don’t have an iOS device, you can still read full text in any browser that supports pdf files.