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Services available to EMHS and SMHS staff

Who do we help?

If you are employed anywhere in the East or South Metropolitan Health Services we support your work.  Online access to resources is restricted to staff employed and paid by EMHS or SMHS as required by publisher licence agreements.  If you work elsewhere in WA Health, please use the resources and services of your health service provider library.

EMHS and SMHS Library clients includes staff at:

  • Tertiary / quaternary level hospitals - Fiona Stanley Hospital and Royal Perth Hospital.
  • General hospitals - Armadale, Kalamunda, Murray District and Rockingham Hospitals
  • Specialist hospitals - Bentley and Fremantle Hospitals
  • South and East Metropolitan Mental and Population Health Services

Contact the Library  |  Use online forms to send through requests.

All staff employed and paid by the South or East Metropolitan Health Service are eligible to access the library online resources.

Fiona Stanley Hospital Library maintains a small collection of print books, and Royal Perth Hospital Library offers both print books and journals. Books from either site are available for staff to borrow across the South and East Metropolitan Health Services.

Loans

  • Print books can be loaned for a period of six weeks and will be automatically renewed once for a further period of six weeks if not required for another borrower.
  • Books must be sighted by library staff before being borrowed beyond one renewal.

Register to borrow/request to borrow books

Library clients also have access to any WA Health Library and their print book collections - either by reciprocal borrowing or request via inter-library loan.

Register to borrow/request to borrow books

FSH after hours access is available to all FSH staff automatically by use of their identity badge / access control card. At RPH staff and students on placement may apply to the Library for after hours access. More information about how to apply for after hours access can be found on the following webpage:

The Libraries are open and staffed Monday to Friday from 9am to 4:30pm (excluding public holidays). Access is available to staff and health students on placement.

More information on library opening hours, building locations, physical addresses, and contact details can be found on the following webpage:

Resources on the Library site are available for any staff member employed by EMHS or SMHS (in order to comply with publisher licence agreements) and will connect without requiring a login if you are onsite in an EMHS or SMHS facility. When off-site you will need to login as required by the login screen with your WA Health IT credentials.

More information on how to login including IT contact details and the password reset link can be found on the following webpage: