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Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – November 2014

Image caption: LSHTM Research Online statistics info-graphic for November 2014. Info-graphics are created monthly and can be download from LSHTM Research Online. Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 27, 500 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries … Continue reading

Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – October 2014

Image caption: Our recently redesigned statistics info-graphic for the 2013-14 academic year. Info-graphics will be created monthly and available to download from LSHTM Research Online. Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 27, 500 full text papers downloaded. The top … Continue reading

Open Access Week 2014

The School celebrated Open Access Week with two 90 minute seminars. The first was held at Keppel Street on Thursday, while the second took place on Friday. Emma Golding, Research Online Administrator kicked off by presenting the Publishing Open Access webpages … Continue reading

Explaining Altmetrics at LSHTM

Fresh Martian Impact Crater by Stuart Rankin (CC-BY) https://flic.kr/p/ptSdih As users of the School’s Publications Database and LSHTM Research Online may have noticed the Altmetrics plug-in which records social media mentions of research by our academic staff. It’s an impressive … Continue reading

Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – July 2014

  Image caption: Mathematics photo by Robert Scarth on Flickr. License: CC-BY-SA 2.0 Last month LSHTM Research Online had another month of high downloads with over 19,000  full text papers being downloaded. This month the top three downloading countries were … Continue reading

Introducing Altmetrics

You may have noticed the recently installed Altmetrics plug-in on the School’s online repository of research – LSHTM Research Online as well as on the Schools’ Publications Database. Below each paper now appears a doughnut or polo with different colours and a number  to quickly convey … Continue reading

Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – June 2014

Image caption: Counting cubes cube table football counter by Hans. License: Public Domain CC0 Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 18,863 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries last month remained Germany, US and UK.  Below are … 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