LSHTM Research Online – the School’s research repository for outputs – has re-launched its statistics dashboard and the image above includes the number of full-text downloads for items between January and June 2015.
Over this period nearly 220,000 downloads of items took place with the most downloaded item…
Gold open access doesn’t come cheap. In the last academic year LSHTM authors produced 126 Open Access research papers which were paid from Wellcome Trust, RCUK, COAF and the School Open Access Fund at a total cost of £255,391 . The average cost of an article processing charge (APC…
In July 1915, Sir Ronald Ross was appointed Consulting Physician on Tropical Diseases and was sent to Alexandria in Egypt for four months to research disease among the troops in the Dardanelles. In his report at the end of his service, he states that on visiting seven large hospitals in…
Want to let the Library know which journals are relevant to you? There’s one more week left to fill in our short survey (deadline is the 31 July).
Surveys are specific to Faculty:
EPH Survey
ITD Survey
PHP Survey
Taking part will help the Library plan and prioritise for…
On Friday 17th July, the Library will only be open from 8:30am to 12:00 noon. It will be closed for the rest of the day to allow staff to attend the School Picnic in Regents Park. We hope to see you there!
Access to e-resources and online…
Apologies for the terrible pun in the title, but it’s hard to think of anything original when Apple have trademarked ‘there’s an app for that’!
Access to eJournals is increasingly being done via mobile devices, whether it’s smartphone, tablet, or eReader. Many publishers now have mobile-optimized…
Over the last three months library staff have been making the trip down to Egham and the University of London Depository Library (perhaps more familiarly known to Library users as the ‘Offsite Store’) to carry out a stock check of our print journals. The Offsite Store houses all the Library…
Today, the London School of Tropical Medicine, marks the 89th year the school’s Foundation Stone was laid, using a custom made mallet and trowel, by future Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. It would be another three years until the school was officially opened by the H.R.H Prince of…
The rather divine LSHTM Library and Archives Services tote canvas bags are still available from the library enquiry desk for only £3.50!
If you’re curious about the design it was created by the British Mosquito Control Institute in 1927. The institute was set up by John Frederick Marshall…
In December 1914, Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria, was appointed as the Consulting Physician in Tropical Diseases to the Hospitals for Indian Troops in England at a salary of £500 a year. This involved regularly visiting hospitals in Brighton, Bournemouth, Brockenhurst and Netley to treat…
