Monthly Archives: June 2014

Wellcome to digitise the Library’s 19th Century literature

The School Library has been selected to contribute to the UK Medical Heritage Library digitisation project, joint funded by the Wellcome Library and JISC. The project aims to create high quality digital scans of 19th century medical books and pamphlets … Continue reading

Natsal in the News!

BBC News, 26/11/13 Modern life ‘turning people off sex’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25094142 The Guardian, 26/11/13 One in 10 women have been forced into sex against their will, Lancet study says http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/26/rise-women-coerced-into-sex-uk-survey-finds The Telegraph, 26/11/13 Women more liberated as their attitudes to sex … Continue reading

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NEWS: NIHR Public Health Research Programme appoints new director and chair

NIHR has announced that Professors Martin White and Frank Kee have been appointed as programme director and chair respectively of the NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme. The appointments are made in succession to Professor Catherine Law, whose term of … Continue reading

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Beware the predatory publishers

Taking a stand against predatory publishers As ‘Open Access’ has become an integral part of scholarly communication there have been a number of new entrants to the scholarly publishing market who have been deemed ‘predatory’. It is likely that researchers … Continue reading

Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – May 2014

Image caption: side wall of the SK3587: Sheffield bingo hall in Flat Street. Copyright Chris Downer and licenced for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Last month LSHTM Research Online had its second highest ever month of downloads with over … Continue reading