Monthly Archives: March 2022
UPDATED 20/12/2023: all of the access links and content in this blog post checked and updated accordingly. All of our electronic resources (e-books, e-journals and databases) are accessible via our online catalogue. In order to unlock your access to all of this content you just need to Sign in with your BMA username and password. Just click on the Sign in button on the top right hand side of the home page of… Read More
Do you need to find answers to your research question quickly? Do you want to retrieve a smaller number of results that are targeted to your research question? Do you want to identify higher quality evidence from the vast amount of literature available? If you answered ‘YES!’ to any of these questions, then there are some tips below that may be able to help you: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used in Medline,… Read More
As a BMA member, you can access the Medline and Embase databases anytime to run your own searches. Medline is the world’s best-known medicine and clinical science database, holding over 25 million references, from over 5,000 journals. Embase is a leading clinical medicine and biomedical database and holds around 28 million records. Coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted almost every aspect of our daily lives, and unsurprisingly in the Evidence Support team, we have… Read More
UPDATED 03/11/2022: all of the access links and content in this blog post checked and updated accordingly. The Library Online Catalogue offers a range of options for accessing content in our e-journals collection. We still offer an A to Z browse list of titles, but you will notice that there is now also the facility to search by category using the expandable lists of medical specialties available on the left hand side of… Read More
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