This is a blog post about the book “The Inspection of Meat: A Guide and Instruction Book to Officers Supervising Contract-Meat and to All Sanitary Inspectors Embodying the Teaching Imparted to the Army Service Corps.” By W. Wylde. This item is part of the London School of Hygiene and…
Prioritising Mental Health
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, it’s crucial to recognise that good mental health is a fundamental for our overall wellness. Modern life can be stressful, the ever-increasing cost of living crisis, balancing your postgraduate studies with work, life and family. It’s important…
Thu, May 23, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BST.
Event registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2890971650647376730
This online seminar will introduce the open publishing and peer review model used by Wellcome Open Research, alongside other F1000-supported platforms, such as Gates Open Research, Open Research Europe, NIHR Open Research and F1000Research.
Attendees will gain an understanding of the publication requirements for Wellcome Open Research, and the workflows for submission, revision, and post-publication open peer review. It will provide advice for authors on how to address challenges in open access publication, and engage with the revision and peer review process that follows.
The seminar will also highlight several emerging trends in open publishing and research, including the use of pre-print servers, and the newly announced verified pre-print platform, VeriXiv – a partnership between F1000 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Read more
The library at LSHTM holds a variety of material in its historical collections, much of it dating from the 19th century before the School was founded. Read on for some highlights from among this material.
World Malaria Day (WMD) is an international observance commemorated every year on 25 April and recognises global efforts to control malaria. World Malaria Day, which was first held in 2008, developed from Africa Malaria Day, an event that had been observed since 2001 by African governments.
Globally, 3.3 billion…
Professor Jennifer Roberts
September 1938 – 11 April 2014
Early Career
Jennifer Roberts was born into a mining family in North Wales. She won a miners’ scholarship to the London School of Economics aged 21. In 1973 she became a research fellow at the London School of Economics having written her…
With the recent revision of the Barnard classification scheme – which determines where books are shelved in the Library – the Collections team has been investigating ways that searching for books can be made easier for readers.
At the Enquiries Desk, when readers wish to find a book that they have read…
The theme of World TB Day 2024 is “Yes! We can end TB!”
The World Tuberculosis Report 2023 (World Health Organization) is available as a free download:
https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/tb-reports/global-tuberculosis-report-2023
The following references are a taste of the selection…
As work continues to transform the Lower Ground Floor area of Keppel Street, if you’re based in London and are looking for alternative spaces to study there are several options available to you:
Senate House
All current students, staff and researchers at LSHTM can join Senate House Library – located…
Historical Collection: The Victorian meat market, tainted meat, and public health crisis—a look at W. Wylde’s The Inspection of Meat.
May 17, 2024
Mental Health Awareness Week , 13th – 19th May 2024
May 13, 2024
Open Research seminar series: Open publishing and peer review with Wellcome Open Research
May 8, 2024
Research Online revealed: an in-depth look at repository usage
May 3, 2024
Bones, beetles and bassoons: Highlights from the historical collections
April 26, 2024
Open Access Feeds