How do you say it?
Borrow (verb) “take and use something belonging to someone else with the intention of returning it”
“May I borrow this book?”
“May I take this book out?”
The emphasis is on removing the item from the custody of the library for the permitted period…
From today (October 1 2014), the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) provides the School with money to cover the cost of article processing charges (APCs) for peer reviewed research, funded wholly or partly by one or more of these UK medical research charities:
The Wellcome Trust has extended its open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters authored or co-authored by Trust grantholders that arise as part of their grant funded research.
As of today the extended policy applies to all grantholders who were awarded a grant before 1 October…
Image caption: Metric Mania by Batega. License: CC-BY
Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 21,000 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries last month were Germany, US and France. Below are the top five downloaded papers for August:
Lockman, S; Shapiro, RL; Smeaton, LM; Wester…
Even though it is the bank holiday this coming Monday, there is no need to hang around outside as the Library is open. Our opening hours during the Bank Holiday Monday are 11:00 am to 5:pm for staff and students only. Any visitors are welcome during core working…
Science and Science Translational Medicine have made all current and past content research articles concerning the Ebola virus freely accessible to all at http://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/ebola/.
In their web statement AAAS state: “Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of the number of people killed and…
The Journal Consultation closes on 31st August 2014, and we want to hear from you whilst there’s still time. There are 3 different questionnaires, one for each Faculty:
EPH: https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/eph
ITD: https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/itd
PHP: https://www.survey.lshtm…
The Library will be closing at 12pm on Friday 15th August in preparation for the Mosquito Day Event. The Library will re-open as usual at 9am on Saturday 16th August…
The Library & Archives Service holds a collection of over 20,000 items relating to Sir Ronald Ross, the discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria and the first Briton to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902.
The collection spans the whole of his career from his…
Image caption: Mathematics photo by Robert Scarth on Flickr. License: CC-BY-SA 2.0
Last month LSHTM Research Online had another month of high downloads with over 19,000 full text papers being downloaded. This month the top three downloading countries were again Germany, US and UK. Below…
