College members may request free photocopied pages from items held in the College journal or book collection. Non-members are charged per article unless they have arranged day access.

 

Articles from outside our collection can be obtained through various inter-library arrangements. A small administrative charge is made for this service and we request that a copyright declaration form be signed in advance for each document requested.

 

Please see charges for further information.

The books held in the College library are for reference only. However, we can on occasion borrow books from other libraries for our members. Requests for articles or book loans can be made via telephone, fax, e-mail, or post.

 

Members are entitled to free literature searches. Literature searches are undertaken using the following databases:

 

Medline (1966-)
PsycInfo (1887-)
Embase Psychiatry (last 10 years)
Embase Neuroscience (last 10 years)
HMIC databases (database from the King's Fund and the Department of Health)

 

You can request a literature search to be done for you, or you can log on to Ovid and undertake your own literature search.

Alternatively, Medline can be found free at www.infotrieve.com or www.nlm.nih.gov. Medline is produced by the National Library of Medicine in the USA, and it indexes and abstracts thousands of health related articles published in learned journals.

 

Payment can be made in advance, or we will send you an invoice with the results of your request. Payment can be made by cheque or credit card. Cheques should be made payable to The Royal College of Psychiatrists and returned to the Library and Information Services department.

 

Charges are as follows: