The library is currently offering a trial of two resources, helpful to both instructors and students.  Please review these resources and let us know what you think.

Thieme Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant is a  presentation tool featuring thousands of stunning illustrations and clinical images from Gilroy et al. Atlas of Anatomy, Second Edition, which includes selected content from the Head and Neck Anatomy for Dental Medicine.

The Teaching Assistant platform enables instructors to enhance students’ learning experiences by incorporating dynamic visuals into lectures and course materials to present complex concepts with unprecedented clarity.

The Thieme Teaching Assistant allows you to:

• Export images as individual files or embedded into PowerPoint slides or PDFs
• Locate specific images using the search function
• Turn individual labels and leader lines “on” or “off” to prepare student study guides, handouts, tests and other materials for an individual image or a series of images
• Use the Teaching Assistant live in the classroom to magnify images and demonstrate

Thieme E-Book Library – educational E-Book platform

The Thieme E-Book Library is an acclaimed online collection of lavishly illustrated full-color downloadable textbooks from Thieme’s renowned Color Atlases and Flexibook series. It is exclusively available by institutional subscription. Each electronic book retains the outstanding educational utility of the print version, including exquisite full-color illustrations and instructive text – plus a powerful search function to help users easily locate topics across the entire collection.

This comprehensive electronic library covers every course in the medical school curriculum to help students, researchers and clinicians master critical subjects in medicine and the life sciences.

Content

• Focused coverage of every clinical and scientific course in the medical school curriculum
• Practical two-page units featuring clear, concise text alongside full-color illustrations for easy reference and review
• Ideal course supplement, study companion, and refresher for students and educators
• Essential research resource for scientists and clinicians from every discipline
• Constant expansion keeps subscribers abreast of new topics

Access and Functionality

• User-friendly interface featuring high-quality full-color illustrations
• Download books quickly, save and read full-text downloads offline
• Easy navigation through interactive tables of content and detailed indexes
• Advanced searching tools for conducting field and full-text searches within individual books or throughout the entire E-Book Library
• Personalized accounts allow users to create bookshelves, set bookmarks, add notes, copy and print content directly, or download and print full chapters

In the interest of saving space in the library and improving access to online content, the library has researched options for the purchase of the digital backfiles of highly used journals.  Of particular interest are journals whose print volumes take up a large amount of space on the library’s shelves.

In addition to the Nature, Cell Press, and Science Direct backfiles that the library has purchased over the last several years, the archives of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences(1877-2005), the Annual Reviews Biomedical Collection, and all sections of American Journal of Physiology have been added to the library’s digital collection.  These backfiles are now available through the library’s catalog, journals a-z list, and GetIt@UNMC buttons in Pubmed.

Acquisition of the Annals of the New York Academy of Science was made possible through the generous support of the Friends of the McGoogan Library.  American Journal of Physiology backfiles and Annual Review publications were supported by a one-time payment of UNMC  student library fees.

We are offering a trial, until November 8, of a collection of ebooks geared toward student interest.  The collection is intended to supplement the medical school curriculum and to provide study tools, pocket guides, and handbooks.

Check out the trial here and let us know what you think! Send an email to akaste@unmc.edu if you think this resource is something that students could use.