I approached my manager clutching a collection of books of various shapes and sizes that I hoped I had classified correctly and to her satisfaction. I had only been working as the library’s cataloguer for 2 weeks and was eager to meet her high standards .
“This is a pamphlet…
Senate House Library (SHL) membership is available to current LSHTM staff and students. You can access their ejournal collections, databases including EBSCOhost, and resources like JSTOR.
SHL starts on the 4th floor of Senate House, just across Malet Street. To use SHL, you’ll need to register. All you need…
Ovid have announced a number of major updates and new features for the Embase database. These will go live on 19 September 2016.
The most important updates are:
The thesaurus/Emtree display will change to include full History Notes and other information provided by Elsevier.
16 new fields will be…
Over the last couple of months the Library has been running a trial of ‘Demand-driven Acquisition’ (DDA) on ProQuest’s Ebook Central platform. This has enabled users to search for ebooks in Ebook Central via the Library’s Discover search tool, and make requests for the Library to purchase…
The Library now provides access to two Springer journal archives:
Biomedical and Life Sciences (189 titles)
Medicine (159 titles)
Access is usually from Volume 1 of a title, and unless the title ceases before then, access stops in 1996. Coverage in Biomedical and Life Sciences goes back to 1851, and…
Changing Face of Keppel Street: Oral History Project
As part of the ‘Changing Face of Keppel Street’ exhibition, currently on display in the Keppel Street foyer, LSHTM staff members were interviewed to capture their recollections of their time at the School.
Edited versions of these interviews are available to view…
Want to let the Library know which journals are essential for your research, teaching or learning? Time is running out – deadline 26 August 2016.
EPH: http://bit.ly/29kUkuS
ITD: http://bit.ly/290tStk
PHP: http://bit.ly/294YKaX
The survey is quick to complete, fill it in now and…
With Open Access (OA) availability bringing the School’s research to an increasingly wide audience, it’s important that we have a way to keep track of the impact that our researchers’ work is having. As part of that effort, we’ve recently completed a project to coin DOIs (Digital…
Trial access to Violence & Abuse Abstracts: August 2016
Violence & Abuse Abstracts is a bibliographic research database focusing on the legal, medical, psychological, and social aspects of all types of interpersonal violence.
Areas covered include child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, emotional abuse, gang violence, elder abuse…
In 2015 the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) became part of the Crick Institute, and earlier this year staff from the NIMR swapped their panoramic views in Mill Hill for a new state-of-the-art building at St Pancras. As part of this move the Library at Mill…
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