Frequently Asked Questions

Most institutions provide automatic access while you are on-campus or on the institutional network (IP-based). Off-campus users authenticate via SAML single sign-on, OpenAthens, or SeamlessAccess. Contact your librarian if you have trouble connecting.

Yes. All titles in the R2 Digital Library are sourced from established medical, nursing, and allied health publishers and undergo each publisher’s editorial and peer-review process.

You may read chapters in-platform and export citations in RIS, BibTeX, and NLM formats. Downloading full chapters depends on your institution’s license terms with each publisher.

Concurrent access is defined per-title based on your institution’s license. When a title is at capacity, you will see a turnaway message. Turnaways are logged and reported to your librarian for license optimization.

Yes. The platform provides COUNTER 5.1 compliant reports (TR, DR, PR, IR) in both JSON and TSV formats via the admin dashboard and the SUSHI REST API.

Yes. We provide KBART feeds for knowledge bases (EBSCO, Ex Libris, OCLC), MARC 21 records for catalogs, and OpenURL 1.0 linking for link resolvers.

Yes. The R2 Digital Library conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. A current VPAT 2.4 is available on request from our accessibility page.

We follow a minimal-collection privacy policy. Reading activity is never sold or shared. See our privacy page for details on what we log and how long we retain it.

Yes. Create a personal profile (tied to your institutional account) to save bookmarks, notes, highlights, and searches across all your sessions and devices.

Contact your librarian or email our content team via the contact page. We coordinate corrections with the original publisher and update affected chapters promptly.