Gale’s iPhone app – AccessMyLibrary

Got a chance to play with Gale's new iPhone app, which acts as a portal to its AccessMyLibrary service. AccessMyLibrary is a service that allows you to access your local public library's Gale databases w/o having to authenticate through the library.  So back to the iPhone app.  In a nutshell, it works well as far as it goes.  As pointed out by Dave in the comments of LiB's post on the app, it really is only a portal, in that it's easy and pleasant to find the products using the iPhone interface, but the databases themselves are not mobile-optimized, making for a less-than-ideal experience.  An excellent start though, and it'll probably stay on my phone.