British Mycological
Society promoting fungal science
British Mycological
Society promoting fungal science
BMS Members who have paid for electronic journals can access the collection of BMS Journals and back-issues on the Elsevier ScienceDirect website. This will require a different username and password and cannot be accessed with the BMS website username and password.
Articles published from Volume 1, Issue 1 are available for the following titles:
You can request the contents list for each of these journals to be sent automatically to your email address. You do not need to be a BMS member or subscribed to the ejournals. Go to Science Direct and register in the top right corner. Those members who subscribe to ejournals just login as usual and select the browse journals. The alert requests are in the right hand column.
To activate access to this site, and to create your personal account on ScienceDirect, you will need your British Mycological Society Membership Number. Please contact membership@britmycolsoc.info if you do not know your number.
Please enter your Society Membership Number in the Registration Box at the following URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/bms/activate/member
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After entering, click on "continue". The next step will depend whether you already have a Sciencedirect account.
The next step will allow you to associate an existing ScienceDirect user profile to this subscription, if you have one.
Please Note – Sciencedirect Society Sites are supported on a separate platform to ScienceDirect. The contents of the Sciencedirect BMS homepage will not be accessible via the ScienceDirect homepage (www.sciencedirect.com) nor via any other Sciencedirect Society Member Site which you may have subscribed to. Each Sciencedirect Society Site must be accessed by the relevant homepage which for the BMS is http://www.sciencedirect.com/bms .
Please go to the Sciencedirect BMS Site and enter your new username and password in the upper-right hand corner of the page: http://www.sciencedirect.com/bms
If you do not have an existing profile and are a new user to ScienceDirect, you can continue to the registration screen that will allow you to create a new user profile.
You will be asked to fill out a form and choose a password. A unique username will then be assigned. It is important to note, that all user-names and passwords to ScienceDirect are case sensitive. After registration you can directly login to the Society Site with your username and password.
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Please go to the Society Member’s Site and enter your new username and password in the upper-right hand corner of the Homepage: http://www.sciencedirect.com/bms
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