Knowledge and Library Services: Students: Books and journals

Books | eBooks

The library's collection of print and electronic books cover many areas of clinical and healthcare topics.

Search our catalogue to find the books you need, library members can also request or reserve titles and manage existing loans.
Books can be sent to any Barts Health site for collection and all library sites have a book return box, so you can return books at a time that suits you.

You must be a member of the library if you wish to borrow a book; use the online registration form or call into your nearest site library to join.

Self development collection

In addition to our clinical titles, we also offer a number of books supporting staff wellbeing. A separate 'Reading Well' collection offers books on healthy lifestyles, stress management and personal effectiveness.

Bookboon
Bookboon is a ‘soft skills’ eLibrary with access to over 800 free ebooks and audiobooks written by professionals with a wide range of categories including: career management, communication and presentation, management and strategy, sales and marketing, Microsoft Office software and personal development.
Access: To access Bookboon go to our WeShare page (Barts staff login required) and then select Bookboon eLibrary on the bottom left side of the page.

Find literature

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub allows you to search across all centrally purchased NHSE e-resources in addition to the subscriptions purchased for Barts Health.

What this means is that you can search across almost all of our e-resources including e-books, articles, journals and multimedia content in one search and then refine your search until you find what you need.

Trip Pro

Trip Pro
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. Users can search across research articles and papers, images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.
Access: Trip database - Freely available; Trip Pro - user account must be set up using a computer on the Barts network or users can now login with an NHS OpenAthens account

For a more in-depth search please see our searching guide.

eJournals via BrowZine - browse the ejournal collection

BrowZine
BrowZine is a web and mobile app which allows you to search, read, and monitor your favourite journals, making it easier to keep up to date with the latest research in your area of practice. Create a BrowZine 'My Bookshelf' account to organise and track your favourite journals and to seemlessly sync between the web and your mobile device. To access our subscriptions select 'Barts Health NHS Trust' as your library.
Access: NHS OpenAthens account

BrowZine app
BrowZine is also available as a mobile app. Download from your app store, select 'Barts Health NHS Trust' as your library and then enter your OpenAthens credentials when asked.