UPDATED 31/10/2022: all of the access links and content in this blog post checked and updated accordingly.

We have now successfully set up access to a large number of e-journals on the Ovid Medline and Embase databases, offering BMA members free access to full text articles.

Medline is an extensive and world leading bibliographical database covering biomedicine. It is owned by the National Library of Medline in the United States and holds over 23 million references, from over 5,000 journals.

Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database of published literature. It is produced by Elsevier and contains over 32 million records from over 8,500 currently published journals.

As a BMA member you can search Medline and Embase directly. Currently we have journal collections from the following publishers available on Ovid Medline and Embase:

• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Elsevier
• Karger
• Royal College of Surgeons
• Sage
• SpringerNature
• Taylor & Francis
• Wiley

All of the above collections are part of our E-Journals Collection, which are also accessible via our online catalogue.

If you have any queries or feedback about our E-Journals Collection or access to the Medline and Embase databases on Ovid please get in touch with us by email at: e-journals@bma.org.uk.