The Library will close at 5pm on Monday 16th June for an External Relations event, and will remain closed all day on Tuesday 17th June for the LAS Planning Day.
The Library will reopen as usual at 8.30am on Wednesday 18th June…
The Library will close at 5pm on Monday 16th June for an External Relations event, and will remain closed all day on Tuesday 17th June for the LAS Planning Day.
The Library will reopen as usual at 8.30am on Wednesday 18th June…
On the 16 June 2014 the Library will be replacing their current electronic journals management system, TDNet, with an OpenURL link resolver (SFX) from Ex Libris. This new service will be called Find eJournals.
SFX will already be familiar to many Library users from database…
Some innovative ways universities have introduced or are thinking of introducing to help relieve the stress of exams include: bubble wrap popping stations (University of Leicester student union),petting zoos (University of Bath) and even bouncy castles and massages (PETA’s alternatives to petting zoos).
Here at LSHTM library, we…
Major Ronald Ross received this Easter greeting sent by Dr F Genovese in 1910 from the province of Caulonia, Calabria, Italy .
The postcard shows a group waiting to receive quinine treatment for malaria.
A second postcard from Genovese to Ross, shows a bullock cart transporting Genovese and Professor Bartholemew…
I was recently asked this question by a student who was rather surprised by my answer. I took the student up to the Library’s Wellcome Gallery where we looked at print copies of Index Medicus, going back to volume one, printed in 1879.
Index Medicus was published every month…
We are pleased to announced that the winner of the Photo Competion is Andrew Bastawrous with his photo entitled: Cataract diagnosis in rural Kenya using a smartphone.
There were 76 entries this year and the judging panel was very impressed by the quality and range of images. We would like…
Last month we had just under 10, 000 downloads of full text papers from LSHTM Research Online with China, Germany and the USA the top three countries downloading. Below are the top five downloaded papers from March:
Pathai, S; (2013) Does HIV accelerate the aging process? An assessment of clinical…
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All staff and students who publish in a BMJ journal and wish to make their article immediately ‘Open Access’ now qualify for a 25% discount on the fee. This discount will be applied after…
After Distance Learning students and staff partied it on down in the library at the annual DL reception hosted by LSHTM alumni earlier this month, I thought it the opportune moment to outline the library services we offer distance learning students.
The basics (i.e. the numbers and whatnot)
LSHTM…
“Mr Bojangles was NOT a tap dancer, he was soft shoe. It is not the same!”
And with this remark, Mr Soft Shoe walked away with a bonus point for his team.
It was pub quiz night at the LSHTM Bar circa 1999 and Andre, Jonathan and Mark were trying…
