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Welcome to the Library:
Search full text across our current surgical collections
- To log in to this site and make use of saved searches and online resource bookmarks, please login at the College website, then select Log in above and choose OpenAthens from the list.
- Use the search box on the Discovery tab to search across all our modern collections; the other tabs make it easier to search for specific online titles or use other search indexes.
- Search for specific publications in the E-journals and E-books tabs, by using the format: title:(publication title).
- Use the Advanced Search option below the Search button to select specific restrictions on your search, or use the Facets to the left of the initial results page to refine your results by source, date or other criteria.
- Detailed information on using this site can be found by selecting the Help option in the menu.
- Many of our resources are available online: please note that you will need to log in at the College website before accessing these. Some providers may not check that you are logged in with us, and will need prompting to do so; you can find information on how to do this under Access Information in the article summary, or on our help pages.
Library E-journals:
Search our e-journal collection
Access to the latest advances in clinical knowledge
Elsevier's clinical insight engine provides access to over 600 e-journals, 1000 e-books, 17,000 videos and 2 million images.
Find high quality clinical research evidence
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.
The world’s most trusted medical research platform
Ovid's database platform allows searching across MEDLINE, Embase and HMIC, with direct links to RCS England Library subscriptions where available.
From the US National Library of Medicine
PubMed® comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature. Use this button to display links to RCS England Library subscriptions where available.
For all of these databases, log in at the College website first, then click the link to the site above. You should have access automatically.
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Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
The popular Video Atlas comprises a series of individual videos demonstrating the structure and linkages of parts of the human anatomy, using real human bodies. Previously available as a series of DVDs, it has now been made available online.
Make sure you are logged into the RCS England website. The link above should then log you in automatically. If not, click
Open Athens
under the login form at Acland’s. Then, selectOpenAthens Federation
in the federation list andRoyal College of Surgeons of England
in the institution list; you can type into the filter field to narrow the list displayed.
Illustrated guide to accessing Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy -
Visible Body: Human Anatomy Atlas
Visible Body is a comprehensive 3D visualisation and learning tool, allowing you to explore the systems of the human body. It includes over 5,000 interactive, medically accurate, male and female anatomical structures, covering systemic and regional anatomy.
Make sure you are logged into the RCS website. The link above should then log you in automatically. If not, click
OpenAthens | Institutional
under the login form at Ovid. Then, search for and selectRoyal College of Surgeons of England
on theFind your institution
form.
Illustrated guide to accessing Visible BodyVisible Body is also available as an app for Apple and Android mobile devices. Please contact us for a username and password to register the app on your device. Please note that we can only offer one licence per user; please contact us if you need to transfer your licence to another device.
Specialty Updates:
Search the archive of our specialty current awareness bulletins
Heritage Collections:
Search the Library's Special Collections and digital exhibitions, and the collections of the Archives and Museums
Go straight to:
- Heritage Collections, our unified heritage catalogue
- SurgiCat, the Archives and Museums catalogue
- Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, the biographies of the Fellows of the College.
- Voices of Surgery, surgical oral histories.
- The Library's Digital Exhibitions, showcasing highlights of the collections.
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