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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Over the last three months library staff have been making the trip down to Egham and the University of London Depository Library (perhaps more familiarly known to Library users as the ‘Offsite Store’) to carry out a stock check of our print journals. The Offsite Store houses all the Library…
Want to let the Library know which journals are relevant to your needs? Now is your chance! From Monday 1st June to Friday 31st July you can participate by filling in a short questionnaire specific to your Faculty:
EPH: https://lshtm.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/las-eph-2015
ITD: https://lshtm…
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