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To mark the 194th anniversary of the British Medical Association, the Library and Archive team is pleased to share the results of a recent digitisation and cataloguing project. In 2025, the team secured a £5,000 grant from Historic Records Ltd, specialists in the digitisation and transcription of historic documents, to digitise the BMA’s membership lists. What do the BMA Membership Lists contain? The membership lists cover the first 100 years of the… Read More

We offer access to both the Embase and Medline databases on the Ovid platform.Embase is a comprehensive, biomedical literature database, produced by the leading STEM publisher Elsevier, with a strong focus on pharmacology and medical devices.Medline is the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) primary bibliographic database for biomedical and life sciences literature, containing citations and abstracts from peer-reviewed journal articles.Both databases index articles from thousands of peer reviewed medical journals.On the… Read More

16 May 2024 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Find out more by following the link https://accessibility.day/ The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion; as an e-only Library it is key that our resources are as accessible for our users as possible. Primo, the library catalogue searching tool is continually designed and developed to meet Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility… Read More