BMA Library and archive

Due to scheduled maintenance, the BMA library catalogue, Primo, will be unavailable from Saturday 12 July 6am to Sunday 13 July 6am.

This includes links to e-books and e-journals accessible from these pages, as well as use of our Rapid ILL service.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The databases ClinicalKey, Medline and Embase are still accessible from the links below.

To access resources during this maintenance, please visit the BMA Library blog.
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Research Resources > Make the most of the resources available from the library with guidance from these resources.
BMA archive Find out more about the historic material held by the BMA.
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