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Guide to Services

Surgical Library

Discover our modern texts and online resources, including e-journals, e-books and digital resources, such as Visible Body and Acland's Video Atlas.

Heritage Collections

Discover our special collections, including older medical books, historical tracts and fellows's biographies, along with collections from the Museums and Archives.

Online journals

Search or browse lists of our e-journals.

Databases

Search across numerous journals using our online databases, Ovid Medline and EMBASE.

ClinicalKey

The clinical search engine with a ‘Google-style’ interface, enabling access to hundreds of surgical journals and thousands of e-books, images and videos in one site.

Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

View the popular anatomy video series.

Visible Body: Human Anatomy Atlas 2020

Explore this interactive 3D human anatomy visualisation and learning tool.

Document delivery

Order articles in PDF format from the library’s print journals, and we can help you access articles from journals to which the library does not subscribe.

Literature search

Our Information Specialists can help you find the literature you need for research, CPD or clinical practice.

Specialty Updates

Find out about the Specialty Updates that are available to Fellows and Members. Updates have been designed to support surgeons stay up-to-date with the latest evidence in their field.

SurgiCat

The Museums and Archives Catalogue, listing manuscripts and museum collections.

Need help using our services?

If you're having problems, please try our help pages, or contact us at library.athens@rcseng.ac.uk or +44 (0) 20 7869 6556.

Related

Online Journals
Find out how RCS members can access our collection of e-journals and other useful resources.
Literature Searches
The Library offers a free literature search service for members to help with tracking down articles on specific subjects.
Specialty Updates
The Current Awareness Service has been developed based on RCS members’ recommendations and is specialty-based. Updates on the latest evidence in a particular surgical field are compiled by the RCS Library.
Library Blog
The Library and Surgical Information Services blog explores treasures from our outstanding collections and updates readers on projects and rediscoveries.

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