Each month, the Research Publications Team will aim to provide a roundup of open access and scholarly communications news. In addition, we’ll highlight any tips, tricks and tools we’ve come across that help to make disseminating, finding and using open access content easier. Here’s our roundup for…
To showcase the wide array of Open Access books freely available online, and in the spirit of International Open Access Week, LSHTM’s team in the Library have put together, in true Waterstone’s style, a shelf each of their favourite selections of Open Access books and materials. These are…
Books for orientation
In a previous blog* I extolled the virtues of walking in London. Here are a couple of books to set local walks in an historical public health and tropical medicine context.
Black, Nick. Walking London’s medical history. London : Hodder Arnold, 2012.
Library location: DX…
An abundance of scholarly resources are available to the researcher, easily discoverable through use of a few search terms. However, this opulence comes at a price: there is too much literature for a researcher to find and read themselves. Text and Data Mining (TDM) offer a solution for health researchers wishing to analyse a large corpus of resources, including research papers, medical records, and other material, even when the information is held in an unstructured form. The resultant output may be used to identify hidden patterns that emerge over time and across geographic regions, predict and address gaps within the data, and convert content into a form better suited to modern research. Read more
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…
As the recipient of CILIP HLG International Bursary Award, I was privileged to have a professional training placement at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.
On the first day, I was warmly welcome to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Library & Archives Service…
You find a citation for an article in a little-known journal that is just right for your dissertation. Unfortunately, the library doesn’t subscribe and you haven’t time to wait for an interlibrary loan. You are looking for grey literature (such as conference reports and dissertations) but Google…
Fancy reading something non-academic for a change? Looking to refresh your own collection at home? Why not try the Library, Archive & Open Research Services BookSwap scheme. Running for several years now, BookSwap continues to be extremely popular among LAORS users.
Located just inside the foyer, our growing selection…
Stop press, stop press !!! Everything you wanted to know about literature searching and were afraid to ask !!
Fear no more, lunch time help is now available in the Library for MSc students throughout most of May, June and July.
These sessions will help you with constructing a search strategy for…
“Which database should I use for my topic ? “ is an all too familiar question. Luckily, help is at hand – http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/resources/databases/index.html – is a useful list of databases by subject, and for big topics such as “Public Health”, it lists the most useful…
World Health Day, 7 April 2025
April 4, 2025
Effective Literature Searching: relevant for MSc Projects – booking now available (Summer Term, all sessions on Zoom).
April 1, 2025
World Tuberculosis Day 24th March 2025
March 24, 2025
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1925
March 19, 2025
Nutrition, Diet and Fasting in March
March 6, 2025
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