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120+ languages at your fingertips!

Choose from 110+ languages to learn including rare and indigenous languages. Transparent Languages also includes English for non-native English speakers.

Visible Body Flashcards

Create flashcards through Visible Body. Use the premade decks or customize your own decks. You can even share your flashcards with your friends. If you don't have a course log-in already, you can create one through the library. Check out our libguide for instructions.

Learn vehicle repair skills with Chilton Library.

Need some help fixing your car? We've got you covered! Check out our Chilton Library database for repair and maintenance videos for your vehicle.

BioArt Source

BioArt Source began as an initiative at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in an effort to ensure quality and accuracy in the images used for scientific and medical figures, presentations, websites, and materials. Medical illustrators, biomedical visualization specialists, and subject matter experts have contributed to the creation of these images.

Kanopy, video streaming database

Stream free documentaries and movies with Kanopy's film collections!

Checkout games in the Library Collections Room

Did you know that the Library has card games, board games, and puzzles for checkout? Borrow a game to play with your friends!

Overdrive has arrived! Borrow ebooks and audiobooks with the Libby app. Find our library by searching "Des Moines University" or "Mobius Consortium" and signing in with your SSO!!

Citation Review

The library is now offering citation review services! If you need your citations reviewed, check out our guide for instructions on how to submit your citations to the library for review.

Needing extra practice with surgical knot-tying? Checkout a knot-tying board. Boards checkout for 2 hours.

Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Libguide

Looking for specific resources for your DPM courses, tests, and experiences? Check out our guide with study resources, point-of-care resources, board review resources and more, all tailored to the DPM experience!

Master of Science in Anatomy Libguide

Looking for specific resources for your MSA courses, tests, and experiences? Check out our guide with study resources, point-of-care resources, board review resources and more, all tailored to the MSA experience!

Master Public Health Libguide

Looking for specific resources for your MPH courses, tests, and experiences? Check out our guide with study resources, point-of-care resources, board review resources and more, all tailored to the MPH experience!

Doctor of Physical Therapy Libguide

Looking for specific resources for your DPT courses, tests, and experiences? Check out our guide with study resources, point-of-care resources, board review resources and more, all tailored to the DPT experience!

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Libguide

Looking for specific resources for your DO courses, tests, and experiences? Check out our guide with study resources, point-of-care resources, board review resources and more, all tailored to the DO experience!

Doctor of Occupational Therapy Libguide

Looking for specific resources for your OTD courses, tests, and experiences? Check out our guide with study resources, point-of-care resources, board review resources and more, all tailored to the OTD experience!

Physician Assistant Libguide

Looking for specific resources for your PA courses, tests, and experiences? Check out our guide with study resources, point-of-care resources, board review resources and more, all tailored to the PA experience!

Master of Health Administration Libguide

Looking for specific resources for your MHA courses, tests, and experiences? Check out our guide with study resources, point-of-care resources, board review resources and more, all tailored to the MHA experience!

various newspapers are available to access online

DMU Library subscribes to several online newspapers and popular publications. Check it out!

Libby is Multilingual

The Libby app will automatically display in your device's language.

Please return library books and materials after hours in our book drop to the east of the Library Collections Room by the cross-sectional body model.

Text a question to the library 515-619-6477

Text a question to the library at 515-619-6477, and we will text an answer back to you.

New Arrivals on Overdrive/Libby!

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Check out these new ebooks and audiobooks!

Interested in more titles? Browse more ebooks and audiobook titles on Overdrive.

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Can't We Talk about Something more Pleasant? by Roz Chast

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Graphic Public Health by Meredith Li-Vollmer

Graphic Public Health:  A Comics Anthology and Road Map

Menopause by MK Czerwiec

Menopause:  A Comic Treatment

Taking Turns by MK Czerwiec

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

Rx by Rachel Lindsay

Rx

American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

Breakthrough by Thea Cooper

Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

Autism in Heels by Jennifer Cook O'Toole

Autism in Heels  The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Healing by Theresa Brown

Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

Mother Lode by Gretchen Staebler

Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver

Tough As They Come by Travis Mills

Tough As They Come

The Undying by Anne Boyer

The Undying

What the Dead Know by Barbara Butcher

What the Dead Know:  Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: the Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

Grunt by Mary Roach

Grunt: the Curious Science of Humans at War

Hype by Nina Shapiro

Hype

Pregnant While Black by Monique Rainford

Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America

Remember by Lisa Genova

Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

The Urge by Carl Erik Fisher

The Urge: Our History of Addition

APMLE Part 1 by Podiatry Boards Prep

APMLE Part 1 Comprehensive Review

Kiss My Asterisk by Jenny Baranick

Kiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar

Tactical Combat Casualty Care and Wound Treatment by US Department of Defense

Tactical Combat Casualty Care and Wound Treatment

The Unplugged Hours by Hannah Brencher

The Unplugged Hours:  Cultivating a Life of Presence in a Digitally Connected World

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