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Increased RCUK block grant for 2015/2016

Research Councils UK (RCUK) has recently announced the amounts that it will be paying to institutions in the block grant to support the implementation of its open access policy. Since April 2013 the grant to universities and eligible research organisations has been used to cover the cost of article processing…

Devotion to the cause: addresses by the Director (1924)

 

The Library serial collection holds some fascinating publications of the School including journals, bulletins, collected papers, reports and memoir series (dating from between 1899-1988).  These historical publications are soon to join the Library’s other serials (published pre-2010) that are stored in the University of London Library…

No Smoking Day: LSTHM and the link between smoking and lung cancer

March 11th is No Smoking Day and we thought that we would highlight the fact that the link between smoking and lung cancer was made at the School. In 1950, Richard Doll, a member of the MRC Statistical Research Unit based at LSHTM and Austin Bradford Hill, Director of the…

Ernest Edwards, photographer

“Photographs of eminent medical men, of all countries”, was published by John Churchill in London, 1867-68 in 2 volumes. It contains the portraits of 48 leading Victorian doctors each accompanied with a biography. The portraits were the work of photographer Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) who had a studio in…

Funding Open Access for Post-Grant FP7 Publications

A pilot will be launched in spring 2015 which will provide funding to cover all or part of the post-grant open access publishing costs associated with projects funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

This pilot is necessary as opportunities to publish often occur near the end of a…

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Studying at the School? Tell us how we’re doing.

The Library & Archives Service is inviting all current face to face (F2F) MSc, Diploma and Research Degree students studying at the School to give us their views on the services and facilities we provide to support their study, and…

A journey back to the 1960s (where I pretended for a short while to be in Mad Men)

In preparation for an upcoming journal stocktake in the spring, the serials team recently took the opportunity to visit the University of London depository in Egham, Surrey. The library stores its pre- 2010 journals at the depository, so if you’ve ever filled out one of our off-site request…

Archives Alive….Peter Mine

 

One of the many things that I love about my job as an Archivist is the unexpected activities that you become involved in. Working with two actors, Rebecca Tremain and Penny Dimond, has been a great pleasure and a very interesting experience in bringing our archive collections to life…

Library Opening Hours Wednesday 25th February

 

On Wednesday 25th of February the Library will be closed from 11.30am to 12.30pm for a LAS staff meeting. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

 

Photo: Some rights reserved by Bryan Mills…