We have now removed all of the Dawsonera e-books from our online catalogue.
When you now search for e-books on our online catalogue you will only see one’s that are working. These are all of the titles that we have access to on other e-book platforms, including our current trial access to Clinical Key.
We are continuing to work with other e-book providers on getting alternative access set up to the titles that we had access to on Dawsonera. As we hope you can appreciate, this process is taking some time as we are having to negotiate brand new access agreements.
As we start to get access to sets of titles we will add these into our online catalogue, and we will also post regular updates to this blog on our progress with this endeavour.
We really appreciate your understanding and patience while we work as quickly as we can to get alternative access set up to the e-books that you have been used to accessing on the Dawsonera platform via our service.
If you wish to get in touch with us please email: e-books@bma.org.uk
UPDATE: The trial access has been extended and is now available until the end of September.
We have managed to secure trial access to Clinical Key for BMA members.
Clinical Key provides access to the full text of the latest editions of hundreds of medical e-books published by Elsevier.
Clinical Key also provides full text access to a large number of e-journals and other key online medical resources produced by Elsevier.
Please use the following link for direct access to the trial:
https://www-clinicalkey-com.authproxy.bma.org.uk
All of the Elsevier e-books that we previously had access to on Dawsonera have now had their linking updated in our online catalogue to connect directly with the version available on Clinical Key.
If you have any queries about our trial access to Clinical Key please email: e-books@bma.org.uk
About half of all of our e-books (approx. 1,400) are hosted on the Dawsonera platform.
Bertram Books, the owner of Dawsonera, went into administration on 19th June.
The administrators have indicated that they will switch off the Dawsonera platform on Friday 31st July.
When this happens the access to our e-books on the Dawsonera platform will stop working.
We are in the process of getting access set up to the affected titles on several other e-book platforms.
As access is successfully set up on each of the new platforms sets of titles will once again become available to access via our online catalogue.
Please visit our blog (bmalibrary.blog) for the latest updates on our progress.
If you wish to contact us about this or any other e-book access issues please email: e-books@bma.org.uk
The June 2020 issue of The Doctor is now available online.
Doctors’ experiences during COVID-19 and how the BMA is keeping them safe, how did New Zealand deal so well with a pandemic, PPE remains a problem, what a ‘new normal’ might look like, freedom to speak up during lockdown, help for doctors who have to make the most difficult phone calls to relatives of patients and the struggle BAME doctors face – just some of the issues tackled in the June issue of The Doctor:
We have a great selection of E-Books for Medical Students, including:
Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine (23rd Edition) 
Impey’s Obstetrics and Gynaecology (5th Edition) 
Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine (9th Edition)
Medical Student Well-Being: an essential guide
View our new listing of E-Books for Medical Students.
In you have any queries about our E-Books Collection please email: e-books@bma.org.uk
BMA members get free full text access to all of the content in the BMJ (BMA member login required), but they also get access to the other three titles that make up the ‘Big 4’, thanks to our E-Journals Collection:
New England Journal of Medicine
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Assocation)
View the full list of the 1,100+ titles in our E-Journals Collection
In you have any queries about our E-Books Collection please email: e-journals@bma.org.uk
We have a large number of the Oxford Handbook series of titles in our E-Books Collection, including:
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (10th Edition) 
Oxford Handbook of General Practice (4th Edition)
Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health (3rd Edition)
View the full list of the Oxford Handbook series titles in our E-Books Collection.
In you have any queries about our E-Books Collection please email: e-books@bma.org.uk
We have a large number of the ABC series titles in our E-Books Collection, including:
ABC of Dermatology (7th Edition) 
ABC of Transfer and Retrieval Medicine
View the full list of the ABC series titles in our E-Books Collection.
In you have any queries about our E-Books Collection please email: e-books@bma.org.uk
