Mobile Apps

Britannica Mobile allows  you to search and browse a subset of Encyclopaedia Britannica content from your phone.  The site at http://m.eb.com is open to all and does not require authentication.  While optimized for iPhone, the site seems to work well with most phones. 

Knovel, the collection of engineering and technical handbooks and manuals, has released an app for Android and iOS.  My Knovel to Go allows you to save documents from the  Knovel database to be read at a later time on your tablet.

How it works:

1. First, download the free My Knovel to Go app for Android or iOS. 
2.  Then access the Libraries' subscription to Knovel. 
3. Create a personal account on Knovel by clicking the My Knovel link. 
4. On the right list of links, click on Mobile Authentication / License. Cope the Mobile Athentication Code and License. 
   Note that these codes expires in just a few minutes. 
5. Log into the app with the credentials you received in step 3. 

Once you are logged into your My Knovel account, search for content. Save any items you might wish to read later to your My Knovel account.  These will be available in your My Knovel to Go App for later use.

Yes, even librarians use Wikipedia—judiciously. For quick facts, dates, and bibliographies it can be very useful.  The mobile version of the English-language site can be found at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/. 

Wikipedia is also available as a free app at the iTunes store and on the Android Market. 

Wolfram|Alpha isn't exactly an encyclopedia, and it isn't exactly a search engine.  The brainchild of Stephen Wolfram, this utility allows you to compute answers from information gleaned from the web.  It is especially useful for measures and conversions, mathematics and computing, and numberic sequences such as population, stock prices, or exchange rates over time.  

Wolfram|Alpha is free and you can find the mobile site at http://m.wolframalpha.com/.  Definitely bookmark-worthy! 

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