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Library Inductions for new students: welcome to our Library services

By Russell Burke · September 22, 2020 · Books, Databases, Journals, Library, Library Resources, training, User Services · No comments

Library Inductions for new students.Welcome to all our new students! We look forward to supporting you in your studies this year.There is a lot of information for new arrivals to take in during Welcome week. When you have time, please feel free to contact the Library (library@lshtm…

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A pause for menopause

By Jennifer Domingo · May 13, 2019 · Books, Journals, Library, Library Resources, open access · No comments

(Meno)Pause for thought

Embrace this time of life, ladies
Embrace it with fear, trepidation, elation
Embrace it anyway cos it ain’t going away.
Embrace it cos it’s coming your way.

Here are some stuff about it.
Enjoy.

Articles:
LSHTM username and password required:
Nelson, H (2008) “Menopause…

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Public Health Ethics

By Rebekah · June 5, 2018 · Books, Journals, Library Resources · No comments

Public health involves interactions with a variety of professionals each with overlapping values and goals. In comparison to bioethics or medical ethics, which has a strong grounding in the discourse of the individual or autonomous directives, public health ethics has a distinctive characteristic of having a population wide perspective. In…

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Capturing the Open Access status of some of the year’s research from LSHTM

By Alice Gibson · October 23, 2017 · Copyright, Journals, Library Resources, lshtm research online, LSHTM Research Online, open access · No comments

In the name of Open Access Week 2017, we have had a look at some of the research produced by LSHTM researchers over the past year to see whether the content of research that is featured in blog posts and news articles is available to everyone and anyone to read…

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Springer journal archives now available

By Eloise Carpenter · August 17, 2016 · Journals, Library Resources · No comments

The Library now provides access to two Springer journal archives:

Biomedical and Life Sciences (189 titles)
Medicine (159 titles)

Access is usually from Volume 1 of a title, and unless the title ceases before then, access stops in 1996.  Coverage in Biomedical and Life Sciences goes back to 1851, and…

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Journal Consultation – time running out

By Eloise Carpenter · August 16, 2016 · Journals, Library Resources · No comments

Want to let the Library know which journals are essential for your research, teaching or learning?  Time is running out – deadline 26 August 2016.

EPH: http://bit.ly/29kUkuS
ITD: http://bit.ly/290tStk
PHP: http://bit.ly/294YKaX

The survey is quick to complete, fill it in now and…

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Journal Consultation 2016

By Eloise Carpenter · July 4, 2016 · Journals, Library Resources · No comments

On the 4th July 2016 the Library will be launching its annual journal consultation.  This is your chance to let the Library know which titles are relevant to your needs, whether it be for learning, teaching, or researching.

There are 3 different questionnaires, one for each Faculty:

EPH: http://bit…

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New journals for 2016

By Eloise Carpenter · January 20, 2016 · Journals · No comments

Following feedback from readers and the Annual Journal Consultation (2015), the Library is pleased to announce new subscriptions to the following titles:

Critical Social Policy (Sage)
Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics (Taylor & Francis)
Lancet HIV (Elsevier)
Maternal and Child Health (Springer)
Qualitative Research (Sage)
Sociological Quarterly (Wiley)
Vector-Borne and…

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Journal consultation 2015: one week left to participate

By Eloise Carpenter · July 23, 2015 · Journals, Library Resources · No comments

Want to let the Library know which journals are relevant to you? There’s one more week left to fill in our short survey (deadline is the 31 July).

Surveys are specific to Faculty:

EPH Survey
ITD Survey
PHP Survey

Taking part will help the Library plan and prioritise for…

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What’s app in eJournals?

By Eloise Carpenter · July 13, 2015 · Journals, Library Resources · No comments

Apologies for the terrible pun in the title, but it’s hard to think of anything original when Apple have trademarked ‘there’s an app for that’!

Access to eJournals is increasingly being done via mobile devices, whether it’s smartphone, tablet, or eReader. Many publishers now have mobile-optimized…

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