Category Archives: Research Online

Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – August 2014

Image caption: Metric Mania by Batega. License: CC-BY Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 21,000 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries last month were Germany, US and France.  Below are the top five downloaded papers for … Continue reading

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

Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – April 2014

Image caption: Count and Spell Color Recognition Beanbags – NUMBERS by Cheryl. License: some rights reserved_CC_BY_SA 2.0 Last month we had over 16, 500 downloads of full text papers from LSHTM Research Online with Germany, China and the US the … Continue reading

SIGMA Research collection catalogue is now available

The archives of SIGMA Research have now been catalogued and the collection can be viewed online on the LSHTM archives catalogue. This is the fourth collection to be catalogued as part of the Wellcome Trust funded project to catalogue and … Continue reading

25% discount on APC in BMJ Journals

Some rights reserved by cheeseslave http://www.flickr.com/photos/ammichaels/10610007865/sizes/l/in/photostream/ All staff and students who publish in a BMJ journal and wish to make their article immediately ‘Open Access’ now qualify for a 25% discount on the fee. This discount will be applied after … Continue reading

Wellcome Trust & Open Access monographs and book chapters

Image caption: Monograph of the West Indian Beetles of the Family Strphylinidae by bionicteaching. License: some rights reserved_CC_BY_SA Monographs and book chapters are a key part of academic publishing. This has been reflected in recent developments by bodies such as … Continue reading

Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – February 2014

Image: page 218 of ‘Map Modeling in Geography, including the use of sand, clay, putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris … Also Chalk Modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. Fully illustrated‘ by MALTBY, Albert Elias. From The British … Continue reading