‘Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy’ now available online

Staff and students will be elated to learn that the University of Liverpool Library has recently acquired the latest online version of Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy. The previous version of this resource was frequently been used by staff and students of anatomy to support their teaching and learning, resulting in this resource being particularly valued by many of our users in the Faculty of Health and Life Science. As a result, the Library is very pleased that we are able to provide this new enhanced web version.

This new web version of Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy provides more than 300 narrated videos of real cadaver specimens. Furthermore, the content has been optimized for delivery via the web and allows users to see anatomical specimens in 3D.

An important feature in this new version is the inclusion of ‘test yourself’ questions, in order to help users to embed learning. Users also have anytime, anywhere access from any smartphone and tablet, while the search and navigation tools make it easy to find only the content that is required for course or exam review.

Access to Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy is available online now from http://library.liv.ac.uk/record=b3028720~S8

TRIAL: JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments

We have a trial of JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments - until 14th September 2011.

JoVE takes advantage of video technology to capture and transmit the multiple facets and intricacies of life science research. Visualization greatly facilitates the understanding and efficient reproduction of both basic and complex experimental techniques, thereby addressing two of the biggest challenges faced by today's life science research community: low transparency and poor reproducibility of biological experiments; and time and labor-intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.

Our trial access to JoVE includes the main area of JoVE and all the sub-sets:

JoVE Basic Protocols
JoVE Bioengineering
JoVE Clinical and Translation Medicine
JoVE Immunology and Infection
JoVE Neuroscience

After trying JoVE, please leave your feedback using the comments function below. You can choose the Anonymous comment option if you don’t have a Blogger account, but please provide us with your name so we can follow-up any feedback you might have.

Faculty of 1000 Biology and Medicine merge

Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine have merged to become... Faculty of 1000. Our subscription now also includes The Scientist: Magazine of the Life Sciences.

Never heard of Faculty of 1000? Think of it as a panel of experts who manage your information overload by highlighting and reviewing the articles that you really should read. Or the long version of that...

The core service of Faculty of 1000 (F1000) identifies and evaluates the most important articles in biology and medical research publications. The selection process comprises a peer-nominated global 'Faculty' of the world's leading scientists and clinicians who rate the best of the articles they read and explain their importance. Launched in 2002, F1000 was conceived as a collaboration of 1000 international Faculty Members. The remit of our service continues to grow and the Faculty now numbers more than 10,000 experts whose evaluations form a fully searchable resource identifying the best research available. Faculty Members and their evaluations are organized into over 40 Faculties (subjects), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections. On average, 1,500 new evaluations are published each month; this corresponds to approximately the top 2% of all published articles in the biological and medical sciences.

TRIAL: CRCnetBASE e-books

We have a trial of CRCnetBASE until 14th May 2010.

CRCnetBASE is the science and technology e-books platform from the CRC Press imprint of Taylor & Francis Group. It includes over 5,000 titles, and they presented in PDF chapters without restrictive Digital Rights Management (DRM) software.

We are trialling the full list of subjects available (just click on the subject to trial the titles available):

Biomedical Science (539)
Business & Management (696)
Chemical Engineering (158)
Chemistry (786)
Clean Tech (153)
Computer Science & Engineering (286)
Economics (767)
Engineering - Civil (365)
Engineering - Electrical (748)
Engineering - General (127)
Engineering - Mechanical (377)
Engineering - Mining (28)
Environmental Science & Engineering (610)
Ergonomics & Human Factors (127)
Food & Nutrition (561)
Forensics & Criminal Justice (284)
Geoscience (29)
Healthcare (104)
Homeland Security (74)
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing (252)
Information Technology (402)
Life Science (756)
Material Science (481)
Math (447)
Medicine (353)
Nanoscience & Technology (113)
Occupational Health & Safety (110)
Pharmaceutical Science & Regulation (268)
Physics (401)
Polymer Science (102)
Public Administration & Public Policy (70)
Social Sciences (537)
Statistics (279)
Water Science & Engineering (213)

We may already access to some of the titles in CRCnetBASE through Taylor & Francis's main e-books platform. It is possible to purchase individual titles, or to purchase or subscribe to collections.

After trying CRCnetBASE please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.

Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical and Life Sciences

We now subscribe to the Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection. This is a collection of nearly 1,000 animated audio visual presentations by world leading experts. The collection is organized into a number of series, see:

http://www.hstalks.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/main/browse_series.php?father_id=4&c=252

Each talk appears in our library catalogue - see catalogue records - and records will be updated each quarter as the collection grows.