When I first arrived at the School, the World Health Organization (WHO) theme “Health for all by the year 2000” was highly topical, with an emphasis on access to primary health care.
We are now into the nineteenth year of the new century, and one which has seen its fair…
Introducing a new service for researchers, staff and MSc students working on MSc Projects
Peer-review of systematic review search strategies
You can now have your systematic review search strategy peer-reviewed by a Librarian. The peer-review is based on the Peer-Review for Electronic Search Strategies (PRESS) guidance…
On Friday 8th March, the world will celebrate International Women’s Day!
The roots of International Women’s Day (IWD) lie in the New York garment workers’ strike of 1908, when 15’000, predominantly Jewish, members of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union downed tools and marched through New York’s…
The Red Ribbon is synonymous with raising awareness of HIV/AIDS, and those living with the disease. The ribbon was designed by the New York based Visual AIDS Artists’ Caucus in 1991 as a symbol to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. It was not trademarked and was not designed to…
All School staff and students are entitled to free membership of Senate House Library. This is an excellent resource which gives you access to thousands of online resources. It also entitles you to use their study space and borrow library items.
On Tuesday 4th December, from 13:00-15:00…
Today is World Malaria Day, to mark this day the Archives service will be posting blogs that look at malaria from its collections.
The LSHTM Archives Service holds the records of Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria and the first Briton to be awarded the Nobel…
Keywords: DORA, Responsible metrics, data sharing, mental health, bibliometrics, Creative Commons
Introduction
Further to my post Planning to get the most out of FORCE2018, written before the conference, I have been back from Montreal for over a fortnight now and have had time to reflect on the key points I…
In 2016, students from the History & Health M.Sc. module suggested that the Archives should put Sir Ronald Ross’s malarial slides, dating from 1900, under the microscope.
Due to the age and rarity of these slides, you can imagine I was a little nervous but also…
A warm welcome to all our new students – we look forward to supporting in your studies this year!
There is a lot of information for new arrivals to take in during orientation week. When you have had a chance to catch your breath, come along to the Library any time…
From 25th August, for one month, the floor of the Library is being restored. The Library will remain open throughout this time, however there will be some disruption to study spaces and accessing the book collection.
During the restoration the floors will be sanded back to the original cork tiles…
