Thursday, August 22, 2013

BrowZine Trial now through Friday, October 11th, 2013

BrowZine is a new tablet application that allows you to browse, read and monitor many of the library’s scholarly journals - all in a format optimized for your iPad, Android or Kindle tablet. Built to accompany your searching needs, items found in BrowZine can easily be synced up with Zotero, Dropbox or several other services to help keep all of your information together in one place. Browzine now offers export to RefWorks and Zotero.

Ready to try BrowZine? Click here to download: http://thirdiron.com/download/

When you launch BrowZine, select Tulane University from the drop down list. Then just log in with your off-campus credentials, i.e.: your email username (without the '@tulane.edu') and password.

BrowZine is available until Friday, October 11th, 2013.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Henry Stewart Talks - Videos for health sciences education (new talks and new access features)

                                                    See the EMBED link underneath each talk!
Henry Stewart Talks provides online access to world class seminars by leading authorities.  The videos are a way to stay up to date on the latest developments in a scientific field or to learn about a new discipline.  By using the EMBED link the talks can be included in courses, directly put on syllabi, put on learning portals, websites and shared on webpages - basically anywhere, including MyTulane (Blackboard).

Tulane has a license for The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection which includes the categories:  Biochemistry -- Cancer -- Cell Biology -- Diseases, Disorders & Treatments -- Drug Discovery -- Genetics -- Immunology -- Methods --  Microbiology & Virology -- Neurobiology -- Pharmaceutical Science.  

Check out the recently added talks.  All of the new talks are mobile compatible as well!

Enjoy all of the talks!