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 the Library’s Special Collections, including older medical books, historical tracts and fellows’s biographies, along with collections from the Archives and Museum.
Online journals
Search or browse lists of our e-journals.
E-books
Find out more about our e-book collections.
Databases
Search across numerous journals using our online databases, Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, HMIC and TripPro.
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.