diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
 
+export(bcdc_browse)
 export(bcdc_facets)
 export(bcdc_list)
 export(bcdc_map)
diff --git a/R/bcdc_browse.R b/R/bcdc_browse.R
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@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright 2018 Province of British Columbia
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+
+#' Load the B.C. Data Catalogue URL into an HTML browser
+#'
+#' This is a wrapper around utils::browseURL with the URL for the B.C. Data Catalogue as
+#' the default
+#'
+#' @inheritParams utils::browseURL
+#' @param url a non-empty character string giving the URL to be loaded. Default \code{https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca}.
+#'
+#' @seealso \code{\link[utils]{browseURL}}
+#' @return A browser is opened with the B.C. Data Catalogue URL loaded: nothing is returned to the R interpreter
+#'
+#' @export
+#'
+#' @examples
+#' bcdc_browse()
+bcdc_browse <- function(url = "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca", browser = getOption("browser"),
+                        encodeIfNeeded = FALSE) {
+
+  utils::browseURL(url = url, browser = browser,
+            encodeIfNeeded = encodeIfNeeded)
+  }
+
+
+
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
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--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
 
 <a id="devex-badge" rel="Exploration" href="https://github.com/BCDevExchange/assets/blob/master/README.md"><img alt="Being designed and built, but in the lab. May change, disappear, or be buggy." style="border-width:0" src="https://assets.bcdevexchange.org/images/badges/exploration.svg" title="Being designed and built, but in the lab. May change, disappear, or be buggy." /></a>[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)[![Travis build status](https://travis-ci.org/bcgov/bcdc.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bcgov/bcdc)
 
-# bcdc
+# bcdata
 
 An R package 📦 for searching & retrieving data from the [B.C. Data Catalogue]( https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca).
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 build
 status](https://travis-ci.org/bcgov/bcdc.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bcgov/bcdc)
 
-# bcdc
+# bcdata
 
 An R package 📦 for searching & retrieving data from the [B.C. Data
 Catalogue](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca).
diff --git a/man/bcdc_browse.Rd b/man/bcdc_browse.Rd
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+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/bcdc_browse.R
+\name{bcdc_browse}
+\alias{bcdc_browse}
+\title{Load the B.C. Data Catalogue URL into an HTML browser}
+\usage{
+bcdc_browse(url = "https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca",
+  browser = getOption("browser"), encodeIfNeeded = FALSE)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{url}{a non-empty character string giving the URL to be loaded. Default \code{https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca}.}
+
+\item{browser}{a non-empty character string giving the name of the
+    program to be used as the HTML browser.  It should be in the PATH,
+    or a full path specified.  Alternatively, an \R function to be
+    called to invoke the browser.
+
+    Under Windows \code{NULL} is also allowed (and is the default), and
+    implies that the file association mechanism will be used.
+  }
+
+\item{encodeIfNeeded}{Should the URL be encoded by
+    \code{\link{URLencode}} before passing to the browser?  This is not
+    needed (and might be harmful) if the \code{browser} program/function
+    itself does encoding, and can be harmful for \samp{file://} URLs on some
+    systems and for \samp{http://} URLs passed to some CGI applications.
+    Fortunately, most URLs do not need encoding.}
+}
+\value{
+A browser is opened with the B.C. Data Catalogue URL loaded: nothing is returned to the R interpreter
+}
+\description{
+This is a wrapper around utils::browseURL with the URL for the B.C. Data Catalogue as
+the default
+}
+\examples{
+bcdc_browse()
+}
+\seealso{
+\code{\link[utils]{browseURL}}
+}