Lean Library Workspace boosts every stage of the research workflow by taking the users beyond access, discovery and guidance. Lean Library Workspace connects with the Lean Library browser extension to streamline research, providing library users with an easy and intuitive research tool for discovering and accessing resources through to collaboration, citing and authoring.
This technology is powered by Sciwheel, which Technology from Sage acquired in 2022 to integrate it into the Lean Library offering and provide librarians and users with a uniquely comprehensive end-to-end research tool.
What are the key features?
- Unlock free and legal access to resources: provide users with seamless access to millions of freely available articles and eBooks while they search for resources online.
- Effortlessly capture and manage references: users can save articles, books, and more to their Workspace library as they browse. This simplifies research for students and researchers, offering flexible projects and tags to help organize work in a way that best suits the individual.
- Annotate and highlight directly on resources: key points and notes can be highlighted on web texts, PDFs, and other resources, ensuring that insights are readily available when needed.
- Collaborate seamlessly: collaboration is easy in shared projects, where all members can view and contribute to each other’s highlights, notes and references–all within one space.
- Access articles anywhere, anytime, with unlimited storage: stay connected to research from anywhere, access and update references and notes, with changes synced and securely stored in the cloud.
- All-in-one research tool for writing your paper: manual citations are no longer necessary! Perfectly formatted references and bibliographies can be inserted in over 7,000 styles directly into Google Docs or Microsoft Word, ensuring accuracy and saving time.
How does Lean Library Workspace benefit your library?
We recommend Lean Library Workspace because this will elevate library services, maximize budgets and save on other tools. It also equally helps students by simplifying referencing and boosting their research productivity. Together with statistics provided by Lean Library, this will help the library to gain deeper and actionable insights.
- Enhances the entire researcher workflow: From access and discovery to citation and authoring
- Amplifies library impact: Increases your library’s value and reach
- Easy authentication: Works with all major methods, including IP, SSO and more
- Usage statistics: Provides the library with institution-wide usage statistics
- Google Docs and Microsoft Word Add-Ins: Enable academics to cite as they write
- Alumni access: There’s no need for users to worry about losing their reference library
How does Lean Library Workspace help students and researchers?
Students and researchers can quickly discover, access and save resources with the extension. They can also manage references and annotate with ease. The collaboration feature in Lean Library Workspace will also facilitate effortless collaboration between study peer groups.
- End-to-end research support: Streamline the entire research journey—from content discovery to writing—reducing overwhelm and tool fatigue amongst users and staff, while also cutting costs.
- Lower cost, higher accessibility: Affordable for institutions, making it a cost-effective alternative with additional integrated researcher functionality.
- Faster learning curve: Designed for simplicity, Lean Library Workspace eliminates unnecessary complexity, making it easier for students and researchers to get started.
- Seamless collaboration: Fewer steps to share and collaborate compared to a rigid desktop-based workflow.
- Unlimited storage at no extra cost: Lean Library Workspace provides unlimited capacity so user do not need to pay for additional storage
- Library Integration: Provides alerts for library-accessible resources, integrates library assist messages, and soon supports one-click PDF downloads, ensuring users access
legitimate academic content
Which browsers does Lean Library Workspace support?
It is available to use with the Lean Library extension on Chrome, Edge, Safari and Opera. It is currently not available on Firefox, but please stay tuned!