Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

Available to purchase until 31 December 2018

Benefits

Savings against direct subscription

Important dates

Agreement start: 1 October 2017
Agreement end: 31 December 2018

Licences are for a 12 month subscription starting on or before 31 December 2018

Licence type

Site licence

Commitment Period

This agreement is of 10 months duration and will be extended on an annual basis. Institutions may join the agreement at any time during the agreement period.

Trial

A free 30 trial is available on application to Chest Help with your IP address range

Eligible Institutions

Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, and to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in the Republic of Ireland.

Other organisations aligned with Eduserv’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Eduserv will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.

Background Information

This agreement has been brokered because of the wishes we’ve received for this content.

Supplier Details

Owner: Wolters Kluwer Health (Medical Research) Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number1776213), whose principal place of business is at Citi Building, Floor 41, 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LQ.

Service Provider: Ovid Platform

Product Description

The hardest challenge for anyone studying anatomy is trying to understand a complex three-dimensional structure without having three-dimensional learning tools. Few people can form a mental image that's three dimensional by looking at pictures in books or static images on a monitor. The best three-dimensional learning experience comes from dissecting the human body itself, but we don't all have access to that, and when we do it's not always at the best time in our learning careers. For those who must learn or re-learn human anatomy without access to cadaver dissection, there's a critical need for a learning aid that presents images of the real human body in three dimensions. The Video Atlas of Human Anatomy is designed to meet that need in a form that can be used by anyone with a mid-speed internet connection.

When we look at something we haven't seen before, our visual sense provides us with two different ways to perceive it in three dimensions. One way is to use our stereoscopic vision, the other is to make it rotate. With stereoscopic vision, we put together the two images from our right and left eye, with their slightly different viewpoints, to get information about shape and depth. With object rotation we put together many images from a sequence of viewpoints to get a far greater amount of useable information.

Stereoscopic vision is what we use for much of our everyday depth perception, and it's the basis for 3D visual aids we've all experienced. These include stereoscopes and Viewmaster® slides from long ago, and 3D movies in the present day. These visual aids all call for special equipment that's not useful for much else. They all suffer from the disadvantage that stereoscopic vision is not our most effective way of seeing things in three dimensions. Our most effective way is rotation of the object.

Object rotation is what we do without thinking every time we're curious to learn about a solid object we haven't seen before. If it's small, we turn it around. If it's big, we walk around it. By doing this, we give our seeing brain a succession of images that we put together to create a three-dimensional mental image. Once we gain that image, we know about the object in a way we never could by looking at two-dimensional pictures or by looking at it from a single viewpoint. What's more, once we have that 3D understanding of the object, any 2D image of it that we see later makes three-dimensional sense to us.

We take object rotation for granted as a constantly active part of our visual sense, but you may find it hard to envision its power as a way to transmit a three-dimensional image. For a demonstration, view one of the sample videos.

You don't need any special 3D glasses or make any visual adjustment to make it work. You don't even need to use both eyes: one is enough.

Full title list is available from here.

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Technical Function Specification

The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.

The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.

Updates

All updates during the subscription period are included at no additional cost.

Alterations/Additions

New platform functionality will be incorporated at no additional charge

Trials

A free 30 trial is available on application to Chest Help with your IP address range.

Login information

Supplier: http://aclandanatomy.com/

Technical Support

Support will be provided via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution. Contact details:

• email: support@ovid.com
• phone: 020 3197 6660

Product Documentation

Training and Training Materials