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Flipster Digital Magazines

A guide to using EBSCO's Flipster digital magazine platform.

Searching for Magazines on a Desktop

Flipster home screen with search field at the top and browsing categories towards the bottom.

 

The Flipster Home screen is the default search screen and offers the ability to search for titles by keyword, as well as browse by Category, Latest Issues, and All Issues.

To create a Basic Keyword Search:

  1. From the Home Screen, enter the name of the magazine in the search box and click Search.

A Result List of magazines that match your search is displayed.

  1. Click on a title or the Read This Issue link to read it in the Flipster viewer.

To Browse Available Magazines:

Flipster provides a variety of ways to browse magazine subscriptions available to you including by subject categories and latest issues published.

Reading Flipster Magazines

Reading Magazines in the Flipster Viewer

flipster viewer open to a magazine.  Viewer tools are located in the top-right hand of the screen and the better bottom (zoom, page turning).

Viewer Tools

  • Search: Click the Search field to open the searching options. Enter your search terms in the field and use the limiters to:
    • Search the current issue vs all issues.
    • Search for all content vs articles only.
  • All Issues: Hover your pointer over All Issues to access all available issues of your title as well as the Table of Contents for the current issue.
  • Pages: Hover your pointer over Pages to view visualizations of all pages available in the current issue. Click on an image to go directly to that page.
  • Zoom: Click the Plus or Minus buttons to zoom in and out of the page you are viewing.
  • Page Arrows: Use the forward and back arrows to page through the current issue.
  • Print: Click the Print button to open a PDF version of the pages you are currently viewing, which you can then print on your computer.
  • Settings
    • Show one page at a time: Select to view only one page at a time.  
    • Zoom out on page change: Select to zoom out to the full page view every time you move to another page. 
    • Fit: Select to fit the page in the viewer by heightwidth, or height & width