Say goodbye to paywalls, confusing publisher websites, or logins that don’t work when you’re trying to access full-text articles.

Lean Library is a browser extension for University of Cambridge staff and students that delivers full-text articles to you from wherever you’re searching: Google, iDiscover, Pubmed, or any other database or search engine. It works with most browswers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer. To install it, click on this link and follow the instructions. Make sure you select University of Cambridge as your institution.

Once it’s installed, you will see a little icon that looks like the one below in your browser toolbar.

Once Lean Library has been installed, it will automatically detect full-text versions of articles that are freely accessible to University of Cambridge students, researchers and staff through University Libraries subscriptions, and will link you to those versions of the articles. If Cambridge doesn’t subscribe to those journals or articles, Lean Library will point you towards Open Access versions instead. It’s designed to work off campus (i.e. outside University of Cambridge wifi networks and on non-Cambridge PCs), and will ask for your Raven login the first time you use it. This is the message the browser plugin icon will display if you click on it:

And, for example if you are searching Google Scholar, this is how it will display results (note that the icon is now green):

See here for more details, or contact the Medical Library at librarytraining@medschl.cam.ac.uk with any questions.