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Mobile and Browser Applications

Useful Library Apps for your Phone and Browser

Libby

The Library has added OverDrive to its Leisure Reading service to offer eBooks and Audiobooks that can be accessed on a variety of devices via a web browser or the Libby app.

Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more for free! Libby is the newer library reading app by OverDrive, loved by millions of readers worldwide.

O'Reilly

Get unlimited access to books, videos, live events, and learning paths on the go. You can download content for offline viewing. And devices automatically sync, so you’ll never lose your place. Plus, you can create and organize collections of your favorite resources with playlists.

Download at https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/apps.html

Endnote

EndNote for iOS enables you to easily view, edit, organize, and share your research material and PDFs on your iOS device. Syncing your EndNote library between your iOS device, desktop (available separately), and online account extends the power of EndNote for iOS and allows for seamless access to your reference library from multiple devices and platforms.

https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/support/endnote/endnote-ipad-and-iphone/

EBSCOhost

Free and available to all EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and EBSCOhost users, the EBSCO Mobile app gives users ubiquitous access to the library’s content, surfacing search results across the library’s EBSCO subscriptions.

https://www.ebsco.com/products/ebsco-mobile-app-research-anytime-anywhere

Knovel ToGo

Knovel ToGo™is a free app that gives Knovel subscribers access to Knovel technical reference content on their mobile devices.

  • Use it to catch up on a new project while travelling, consult critical guidelines at a worksite, and have trusted, verified technical data right at your fingertips - anytime, anywhere.

  • Use Knovel ToGo offline to read during your commute and sync bookmarks when you are online

  • Search and save resources on your device and read them later on your laptop

  • Search and save resources on your laptop and read them later on your mobile device

Download at https://app-knovel-com.ezproxy.lancs.ac.uk/kn/mobile-app

iLancaster

iLancaster is Lancaster University’s mobile app used by students, staff and applicants.

https://portal.lancaster.ac.uk/ask/mobile/

Complete Anatomy

Complete Anatomy is the  world's leading 3D anatomy platform, with ground-breaking technology, models and content. Not just an atlas, but an anatomy learning platform.

 

• Human anatomy models, with thousands of individual interactive structures, including a living, beating, dissectible human heart in full 3D.

• Atlas of over 700 Screens, based on illustrations from Elsevier's foremost anatomy textbooks

Also Includes:

• Complete courses, including Female Anatomy presented by Alice Roberts, Dissection courses, Human Anatomy, Point of Care Ultrasound, Clinical Correlates & many more

• Dynamic Cross-sections, real-time Muscle Motion, Insertion & Origin mapping, Bone Surface & Landmark mapping, 12 layered systems, Nerve Tracer, Blood Supply Tracer

• 28 stunning Microscopic anatomy models

• AR mode including multiuser AR on compatible devices

• Over 1,500 clinical videos on Cardiology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Dentistry & Fitness

• Radiology: view radiological images in parallel with interactive 3D models

 

Available for iPad, iPhone and Android

 

Access details are included in the Accessing Complete Anatomy Document (You will need to log in with your Lancaster eMail).