The challenges of the pandemic forced us all to work in new ways, and in BMA Library’s instance, this meant reviewing strategy and taking the opportunity to improve services for members.
Thanks to the new e-first strategy, members are now able to access more resources and support than ever before via the BMA library webpage. And because everything is now online, all members have the same access, no matter where they are based.
Make light work of finding what you need.
Search the collection using our new catalogue to access thousands of e-books and other collections
Access thousands of e-journals including JAMA, The Lancet, and Nature.
Enjoy free access to ClinicalKey and ClinicalKey Student. Use this powerful clinical search engine for the latest evidence and point-of-care support
Search Medline and Embase, the world leading clinical medicine and biomedical bibliographic databases, with full text linking to our current subscriptions
Can’t find or access a resource – tell us what you are looking for and we will try and help
UPDATED 03/11/2022: all of the access links and content in this blog post checked and updated accordingly.
We are pleased to announce that access to Clinical Key for BMA members is now permanent.
In addition to this, we are now also offering access to ClinicalKey Student
For further details on both of these fantastic online resources, including how to access them, please see the following dedicated new page on the BMA website: https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-library/clinicalkey
UPDATED 20/12/2023: 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.
UPDATED 20/12/2023: all of the access links and content in this blog post checked and updated accordingly.
We have, in the last few weeks, added the following titles to our E-Books Collection:
Get through MRCPCH. Part 2 : Data Interpretation Questions (Second Edition)
Paediatric Radiology for MRCPCH and FRCR (Second Edition)
Oxford Handbook of Orthopaedics and Trauma
All of our e-books, both the ones above and the thousands of others that we have, are all accessible via our online catalogue – https://bma.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44BMA_INST:44BMA
If you have any queries about any of these e-books please get in touch with us at: e-books@bma.org.uk
UPDATED 20/12/2023: all of the access links and content in this blog post checked and updated accordingly.
We have in the last two weeks added the following titles to our E-Books Collection:
Oxford Handbook of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery (3rd Edition)
Clinical SAQs for the Final FRCEM, by Banerjee
SBAQs for the FRCEM Primary, by Gupta
Revision Notes for FRCEM Intermediate SAQ Paper, by Banerjee
All of our e-books, both the ones above and the thousands of others that we have, are all accessible via our online catalogue – https://bma.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44BMA_INST:44BMA
If you have any queries about any of these e-books please get in touch with us at: e-books@bma.org.uk
UPDATED 20/12/2023: all of the access links and content in this blog post checked and updated accordingly.
We have today added the following titles from the ABC and At a Glance series to our E-Books Collection:
ABC of Alcohol (5th Edition)
ABC of Arterial and Venous Disease (3rd Edition)
ABC of Autism
ABC of Clinical Communication
ABC of Clinical Leadership (2nd Edition)
ABC of Common Soft Tissue Disorders
ABC of COPD (3rd Edition)
ABC of Diabetes (7th Edition)
ABC of Learning and Teaching in Medicine (3rd Edition)
ABC of Multimorbidity
ABC of Orthopaedics and Trauma
ABC of Prehospital Emergency Medicine
ABC of Sports and Exercise Medicine (4th Edition)
Applied Anatomy for Clinical Procedures at a Glance
Transplantation at a Glance (2nd Edition)
All of our e-books, both the ones above and the thousands of others that we have, are all accessible via our online catalogue – https://bma.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44BMA_INST:44BMA
If you have any queries about any of these e-books please get in touch with us at: e-books@bma.org.uk
UPDATED 20/12/2023: all of the access links and content in this blog post checked and updated accordingly.
We have added the following three brand new titles to our E-Books Collection today:
Oxford Handbook of General Practice (5th Edition)
Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine (5th Edition)
Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (4th Edition)
All of our e-books, both the ones above and the thousands of others that we have, are all accessible via our online catalogue – https://bma.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44BMA_INST:44BMA
If you have any queries about any of these e-books please get in touch with us at: e-books@bma.org.uk
UPDATED 24/10/2022: all of the access links in this blog post checked and updated accordingly.
We have now successfully set up alternative access to a large number of Oxford University Press (OUP) e-books that we used to have access to on the Dawsonera e-books platform. In addition to the Oxford Handbook series of titles which we blogged about earlier this week, we now also have the following OUP titles available in our E-Books Collection once again:
- Addiction Medicine (Oxford Specialist Handbooks) (2nd Edition), by Saunders et al
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Cardiology) (2nd Edition), by Thorne
- Advanced Training in Anaesthesia (Oxford Higher Specialty Training), by Prout et al
- Anaesthesia for Emergency Care (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia), by Nolan
- Basic Sciences for Core Medical Training and the MRCP, by Herring
- Basic Sciences for Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Core Materials for MRCOG Part 1, by Ugwumadu
- Basic Sciences for Ophthalmology, by Bye
- Cardiothoracic Surgery (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery) (2nd Edition), by Chikwe
- Challenging Concepts in Neurosurgery, by Bhatia
- Challenging Concepts in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, by Idle
- Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (5th Edition), by Scarth
- Emergencies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (2nd Edition), by Doumouchtsis
- Essential Revision Notes for Cardiology KBA, by Khavandi
- Eye Movement Disorders in Clinical Practice, by Wray
- Fitness for Work: the Medical Aspects (6th Edition), by Hobson
- Forensic Psychiatry (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Psychiatry), by Eastman
- FRCS Trauma and Orthopaedics Viva, by Davies
- The GPVTS Guide to Success, by Blunt
- Health for all Children (5th Edition), by Emond
- How to get a Specialty Training Post: the insider’s guide, by Lim
- Integrative Women’s Health (2nd Edition), by Maizes
- Lachman’s Case Studies in Anatomy (5th Edition), by Seiden
- The Maudsley Handbook of Practical Psychiatry (6th Edition), by Owen
- Nerve Repair, by Brushart
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (2nd Edition), by Kerawala
- Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery), by Warner et al
- Oxford Case Histories in Anaesthesia, by McCormack
- Oxford Case Histories in Neurosurgery, by Hasegawa
- Paediatric Anaesthesia (2nd Edition), by Roberts
- Pediatric Neurology (2nd Edition), by Holmes
- Paediatric Palliative Medicine (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Paediatrics) (2nd Edition), by Hain
- Paediatric Rheumatology (2nd Edition), by Foster
- Peripheral Nerve and Muscle Disease (2nd Edition), by Cohen et al
- The Practice of Emergency and Critical Care Neurology (2nd Edition), by Wijdicks
- Preparing to Pass the FRCA, by Whymark
- Regional Anaesthesia, Stimulation, and Ultrasound Techniques (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anesthesia), by Warman et al
- Revision Notes in Intensive Care Medicine, by Gillon et al
- Stroke Medicine (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Neurology) (2nd Edition), by Markus
- Training in Ophthalmology (2nd Edition), by Sundaram et al
- Vascular Surgery (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery) (2nd Edition), by Hands
- Viva Training in ENT: Preparation for the FRCS, by Costello
All of our e-books, both the ones above and the thousands of others that we have, are all accessible via our online catalogue – https://bma.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44BMA_INST:44BMA
If you have any queries about any of these e-books please get in touch with us at: e-books@bma.org.uk
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