The hard copy journal collection covers clinical medicine, health policy, the history of medicine and medical education. This includes:
- 66 current titles
- complete runs of the BMJ, The Lancet and Clinical Medicine
- hundreds of titles of historical interest
You can access a complete list of the print journal holdings at the bottom of this page.
The medical education titles are held in the Medical Education Resource Centre (MERC), and all other tiles are held in the Wellcome reading room - read more about these London library facilities.
Articles from post-1911 journals may photocopied. Full library members and medical student and foundation doctor members may request to have copies made and posted as part of our document delivery service.
Many of our current titles and hundreds more are available as ejournals.
For RCP staff, journal issues may be circulated and departmental subscriptions set up and managed.

