By Louise Woof
I have been fortunate enough to be able to spend two weeks at the archive, learning the role of an archivist and undertaking various projects from listing AIDS research papers to setting up displays for the Great War Bake Off. Here is a brief glimpse of a…
Unfortunately the library resource discovery trial has been subject to some technical issues. Many thanks to all of you who emailed comments regarding the trial, they were really useful in helping us to fix the problems. We are very happy to announce that the issues have now been resolved and…
Each year, Medline and Embase update their indexing terms. The Embase update is due to take place next week. If you use indexing terms in your saved searches (often also called subject headings or MeSH terms), you may have to update your searches.
The main change for 2014 is the…
UPDATE (January 2015)
The School has decided not to renew its Supporter Membership with BMC which means the 15% discount and instant payment option for researchers is no longer available.
If you wish to pay for an APC for Open Access with BMC please follow the instructions on our OA…
With the help of crowd-sourcing a dataset of nearly 500 scientific articles covering Ebola has been created which identifies those that can be freely accessed, read and re-used in the fight against the virus outbreak.
Members of LSHTM Library (John Murtagh @LSHTMOpenAccess and Merinne Whitton @LSHTMLibrary) along with…
WE NEED YOU!
The Library and Archives Service is providing trial access to three Resource Discovery Systems (EDS, Primo, and Summon) from 17 November 2014 – 19 December 2014. We would like as many staff and students as possible to explore the Systems, and then let us know how they find…
Last week, an article was published in the Lancet by a team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, regarding using a bacterial sample from a World War I soldier to uncover useful new information about dysentery, a disease that kills hundreds…
Resource Discovery Systems: Trial Access
The Library and Archives Service will be providing trial access to three Resource Discovery Systems (EDS, Primo, and Summon) from 17 November 2014 – 19 December 2014.
We would like as many staff and students as possible to explore the Systems, and then let us know…
In preparation for the Great War Bake Off, I have made Anzac Biscuits. These biscuits were popular with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). It was said that wives and girlfriends sent these cookies to their husbands and boyfriends as the ingredients didn’t spoil and would therefore…
The Library will be closing at 2.30pm on Tuesday 11th November for a staff event. The Library will re-open as usual at 8.30 am on Wednesday 12th November. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Photo: Some rights reserved by Bryan Mills…
