The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) has relaunched PharmacyLibrary.com, its pharmacy education and reference website, on Atypon's Literatum, the scholarly and professional publishing industry's most widely used online publishing platform. Atypon now hosts APhA's core library of 44 pharmacy reference and technician training eBooks, case studies, educational materials, and board review tools for NAPLEX®, the North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam.
The site includes Literatum's newest feature—an interactive exams module—custom-built for APhA and now available to all Atypon clients. The module gives students a personalised dashboard for creating customised practice tests on the fly—by subject area and/or level of difficulty—from over 3,600 questions. The dashboard then dynamically displays content recommendations from APhA's library that are tailored to each student's test results and based on areas where the greatest improvement is needed.
Literatum's flexibility is giving APhA an unprecedented level of control over how its content is managed and displayed online. APhA can now customise content display and bonus offers based on the identity of the user: student, instructor, or Association member. APhA's newest initiative, titled PharmacotherapyFirst: A Multimedia Learning Resource, will incorporate the interactive exams module, reference content, and original multimedia elements into a peer-reviewed resource focused on disease-state management and patient care.
Atypon's engineers created a full-featured site in 10 months, meeting APhA's aggressive development schedule. The new site includes single sign-on with APhA's association management system (AMS) and Learning Tools Interoperability integration with APhA's 'Learner Community' learning management system. The NAPLEX® review module is powered by Atypon's Digital Objects technology, which gives all content the same degree of enhanced functionality, from APhA's test questions and answers to their books, Active Learning Exercises, case studies, and high-resolution streaming videos.
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