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Home > Information resources > Library

Welcome to the Library of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

Outlined here are the key features of the Library, and information about its collection and services.

Access arrangements
The collection
Services
The electronic library

Access arrangements

Location

The Library is located in the Information Centre on the lower ground floor of Society headquarters at 1 Lambeth High Street, London.

Access

Anyone may visit the Library, but only registered pharmacists, registered pharmacy technicians, preregistration trainees and MPharm students have free access. All other visitors need to pay a fee (£17 per day (£6 for non-pharmacy students) or £8.50 (£3.00 for non-pharmacy students) if you visit after 2pm).

Making an appointment

If you are not a member of the Society or if you wish to guarantee additional support when you visit the Library, you should make an appointment. Non-members who arrive without an appointment will not be guaranteed access.

The collection

The Library holds a current clinical collection relating to pharmacy – its practice, research, science and history. It has a small selection of current journal titles in pharmacy and medicine, and a larger collection of journal titles that are no longer added to.

It holds the full range of Pharmaceutical Press publications, including Martindale: the complete drug reference, Stockley's drug interactions, British National Formulary and The Pharmaceutical Journal, plus all of the textbooks published by the Pharmaceutical Press.

A key collection within the Library is the holdings of pharmacopoeias, proprietary texts and formularies from around the world. Some of the texts in this collection date back several decades.

Using the collection

The collection is for reference use only. You are able to consult items within it while visiting the Library, but it is not possible to borrow any of the texts in stock.

Services

Self-service copying

When visiting the Library you are able to make copies of documents within our collection (within the limits of UK copyright legislation). The costs for copying are as follows:

No of units	Members	Non-members
1	20p	50p
10	£1.60	£4.00
20	£2.75	£6.90
50	£5.50	£13.50
100	£8.80	£22.00
200	£14.00	£35.00
500	£32.50	£81.00

The electronic library

When visiting the Library you will have access to MedicinesComplete and to approximately 2,050 fulltext journals. See the separate myLibrary – the online library and Finding pharmacy information on the internet pages for further information on how to access resources online, including myLibrary if you are a registered pharmacist, registered pharmacy technician or a preregistration trainee.

Further information

If you need further information or help, please contact:

Tel: 020 7572 2300
e-mail: library@rpsgb.org