ONLINE LECTURESBY LEADING WORLD EXPERTS
By leading world experts

Quick Start Guide

The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collectionwww.hstalks.com/biosci
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC)
contains over 3,000 specially commissioned,
multi-media, online lectures by leading world experts
from universities, research centres, medical schools,
and pharmaceutical/biotech companies.
There are over 2,500 contributing editors andspeakers, complete series of lectures coveringboth the fundamentals and the latest thinking anddevelopments, complete course modules withfull supporting material (suggestions for projects,
workshops and tutorials; recommended reading(research papers, review articles and book chapters);
multiple choice questions and suggested examquestions with bullet points of model answers),
accredited tests for US Continuing Medical
Education (ACCME) and UK Continuing Professional
Development (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicineof the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UnitedKingdom) and more than 100,000 slides. All content
can be embedded in Moodle, Blackboard and other
online learning environments.
TBLSC supports self-motivated learning, distancelearning programmes, blended learning courses andflipped classroom education and is accessible onsite
and offsite. Talks in the collection ensure faculty haveaccess to a wide range of expert lectures to supportand extend existing course modules. No single
institution can retain the number and range of leading
experts represented in the collection.
New material is added every month and all content is regularly reviewed, updated and archived.

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ACCESSFOR GUESTS
Access is limited, with only the first few minutes of each lecture available for viewing. Apply for a free trial
for your institution by clicking the ‘REQUEST FREE TRIAL’ button at the top right of The Biomedical & Life
Sciences Collection page, complete the form and one of our account managers will follow up on your request.

FOR SUBSCRIBERS - ONSITE/CAMPUS
Full access to the collection should be immediate when on campus/onsite by entering www.hstalks.com/biosci
in your browser. If there is any difficulty contact your library or HSTalks at access@hstalks.com.

2Quick Start GuideACCESSFOR SUBSCRIBERS – OFFSITE/OFF CAMPUS
There are three options:
1. Connect remotely to your institution’s internal network (EZProxy).
2. Sign up for a personal account (A) which can be done when you are authenticated as a member of yourinstitution (B), for example when onsite. First click on the institution icon on top right of any page to reach thesign up link. You can then login with this personal account for easy offsite access (C).
3. Login via your organization, using your university login details (D). First click, on the user icon on top right ofany page to reach the login button. Please note, if your organization is not listed here, then this option has notbeen set up and you should use one of the other two offsite access options.

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SEARCHING FOR TALKS, SERIES OR EXPERTS
Use the search bar on the top left of any page to run a search in the collection.

REFINING YOUR SEARCH
The default search result shown are ‘Talks’ (1). It is also possible to view search results for ‘Series’ (2)or ‘Experts’ (3) by clicking the tabs to the right of ‘Talks’.
You can use filters to refine your search (4).
For more information (e.g. topics covered, slide index, etc.) on any listed item, click ‘More Details (5).

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PLAYING A TALK - THREE WAYS
- Click ‘Play’ (1)- Click the title (2)- Click the thumbnail (3)2315Quick Start Guide

ACCESSING SUBJECT AREAS- Click ‘Subjects’ in the top left on any page in the collection.

- Select the ‘Category’ or ‘Therapeutic Area’ of choice.

- You can now search further the category or therapeutic area you choose using the search function options.
- For Lectures, Series and Experts choose options at the top of each module or scroll down the page and selectfrom what is presented.

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AVAILABLE OPTIONS AND FUNCTIONS WHEN VIEWING A TALK

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7(1) Open a PDF of the slides in a format suitable for printing and making notes(2) Jump to a selected slide(3) View the topics covered in this talk(4) View internal and external links(5) View the talk’s citation (APA format)(6) Control the playback speed of the video(7) Add subtitles (when available)(8) Embed the talk in a virtual learning system (e.g. Moodle, or Blackboard), a PowerPoint presentation,a Word document, or an email. Once you choose to embed you have the following options:

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EMBED AS A LINK / THUMBNAILEMBED TALK AS A VIDEO(a) Highlight the thumbnail (either manually
or by clicking ‘select preview’) and thenuse the keyboard to copy & paste it into
your application (e.g. virtual learningsystem).

(c) Copy and paste the HTML code above
into your web page or application.

(b) Drag and drop the thumbnail directly
into your application.

For more details on how to embed
a talk - access our Embed Manual.

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WE ARE HERE TO HELPKEEP ME UPDATEDGET SUGGESTIONSFOR CONTENTLIBRARIANS

To receive a monthly updateof new talks released selectthe KEEP ME UPDATED at thebottom left of any page in thecollection.

Click ‘Send Syllabus’ in thefooter of any page in thecollection and send us yoursyllabus or description of yourcourse’s learning objectives andwe will suggest which lectures/case studies are suitable.

Click ‘General Information’under ‘Library Information’in the footer of any page inthe collection, to view theservices we provide to support
librarians.

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