Current issue

Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England home page

Access to the current and back issues

For issues from within the past 12 months:

Members: Free access only through the members' area
Affiliates: Free access only through the affiliates' area
Non-members/public: Visit the Portland Press website
Then access Annals via IngentaConnect

Issues prior to this may be accessed free of charge from PubMed Central.

Discuss articles from the Annals in the eLetters area

The online journals and IngentaConnect

You can get online access to the current and back issues of both the Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons and its supplement, the Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons, via IngentaConnect.

Features of the online journals include:

cross-journal searching through combinations of authors, article titles and abstract keywords;
document-to-document reference linking;
active reference links to major abstracting and indexing services;
multi-format delivery options; and
Table of Contents (TOC) email alerting service.

Table of Contents and RSS feeds

Ingenta offers a Table of Contents (TOC) alerting service, which emails you the TOC for the current issue. You can also set up an RSS news feed for up-to-date information on new publications.

Visit IngentaConnect for more details and instructions on how to activate these services.

Indexes

You can view past annual indexes for the Annals via PubMed's journal database, or via a downloadable PDF from the selection below.

Free article

The lead article from each issue is free to everyone.

To view the article go to the Annals page on IngentaConnect.
Click on the issue you wish to read.
Click on the first article, which says 'Free' next to it.

Troubleshooting

If you are experiencing difficulties accessing the journals online please read the points below:

If you are not a member, fellow or affiliate of the College you must pay to view the journals. For subscription rates and to set up online access go to the Portland Press website. You will then be able to access the journals by going directly to the IngentaConnect website from here. Note you can also buy individual articles using the pay per view service.

Fellows and members of the College must access the journals through the members' area of the College website. By typing in your Athens username and password at this stage, your free access to the journals is authorised and you should then be able to link to the College-branded Ingenta pages without any problem. Affiliates must enter through the affiliates' area.

By following the links to the online journals you will arrive at the College-branded Ingenta site. Click on the issue you wish to view. This will take you to the contents list. Click the page numbers on the right-hand side.

You will now be at the Document Request page, displaying the title and abstract and reference links. Choose from the radio buttons the format you wish to view the article in, and click Request Document. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader (for PDFs) you can download it for free by clicking on the icons at the bottom of the page.

If you reach this Document Request page but have a box requesting a username and password instead of the format selection box, don't re-enter your Athens password. Instead, come right back out to the College homepage and try entering through the members' or affiliates' area again.

If you are still unable to access the College-branded online journals via the route described above then it is recommended that you try the alternative route of reading the journals through Ovid Online. Details of how to access this service can be found on the accessing electronic journals page.

If you are still experiencing difficulties, please email annals@rcseng.ac.uk.