TRIAL: Dental Education in Video

We have a trial of Dental Education in Video until 22nd December 2012.

To access this trial go to http://dntl.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/.

Dental Education in Video is a video encyclopaedia of dentistry and dental technique, delivering online access to hundreds of high-definition videos featuring world-renowned clinicians and educators. It provides hundreds of hours of demonstrations from American Dental Association-approved content partners, together with interviews and lectures, for students and staff in dental surgery, medicine, oral hygiene and nursing.

This current release includes 174 videos totalling 151 hours.

Each video is accompanied by a synchronised and fully searchable transcript.

You can listen to an audio track or watch a video on your mobile device too.

Key features include:

• multiple points of access—browse, search, thumbnail images, transcripts—allowing you to find your point of interest in hundreds of hours of video within seconds
• synchronized, searchable transcripts to accompany the videos
• video clip-making tools
• annotated playlists—you can make, annotate, and share playlists for course or individual use, and you can include links to materials or resources outside of the collection to make this your one-stop resource
• high quality, licensed, in-copyright material plus newsreel and other valuable footage
• the ability to create synchronized annotations and multi-media presentations
• an embeddable video player and playlist for use on a class Web site, library home page, or an electronic syllabus—lets you drive usage and deliver content to users where and when they need it without instructions or countless screens and clicks
• streaming, quickly accessible online video at 400 and 800 kbps with no delays and no special equipment (just Flash and a browser)
• Open URL compliance

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3 Clinics titles finally available online

We have finally bitten the bullet and switched the subscriptions for our 3 Elsevier Clinics titles in medicine from print to online. The online version costs about 10 times the print version, so use them or lose them!

Clinics in Perinatology
Dental Clinics of North America
Pediatric Clinics of North America

EBSCO Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source now available

We now subscribe to EBSCO Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source, a collection of more than 160 full-text journals, including many of the top ranked titles in the discipline, as well as dozens of full-text monographs. It also contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 210 journals and dozens of monographs.

Of particular importance are journals from Quintessence Publishing including their flagship journal, Quintessence International. Previously our only online access to their journals has involved clunky username & password access. Now it's all there seamlessly in Discover, though EBSCOhost, and linked to from other sources (like Medline) via find it @ liverpool.

STAT!Ref Dental and Health Sciences eBooks

We have begun a subscription to a small selection of eBooks on the STAT!Ref platform. See the catalogue records for the titles available.

To get the most out of STAT!Ref read this How to Guide (PDF) or watch this tutorial.

Access to all Health Sciences eBooks on ScienceDirect for a year

As previously announced, we have access to all non-Health Sciences eBooks on ScienceDirect for the whole of 2011.

And now we have access to over 700 Health Sciences eBooks on ScienceDirect as well, until March 2012. Towards the end of this period we will be able to choose which titles we want to retain permanent access to (up to a particular value - unless we choose to spend more). Titles cover medicine, dentistry, health sciences, nursing and allied healthcare and veterinary medicine (though note that we have already bought the veterinary medicine collections up to and including 2008 titles).

See the library catalogue records.

Oxford Handbooks in medicine now available online

We have started subscriptions to 12 Oxford Handbooks in medicine on the Oxford Medicine Online platform, with access available for 3 simultaneous users per title:

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Haematology
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery
Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes
Oxford Handbook of General Practice
Oxford Handbook of Oncology
Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care
Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry

and one on Ovid (because it is not yet available for subscription on the Oxford Medicine Online platform), with access for just one user at a time:

Oxford Handbook of Applied Dental Sciences

Note that these subscriptions are for a single year in the first instance. We will review usage and consider whether they justify a longer-term subscription.