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…
We commemorate this First World War centenary and Remembrance Day with Justin Hopper’s prose poem to this tiny but virulent scourge of the trenches, one of the gilded vectors on the School’s Keppel Street facade.
Others took their place their place : with extracts from the journals of servicemen…
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Journal Consultation during the summer. The new Faculty-based approach this year resulted in an increased response rate, with each Faculty being well represented. Now the responses have been analysed, the Library is in a position to place new orders for the…
Image caption: Our recently redesigned statistics info-graphic for the 2013-14 academic year. Info-graphics will be created monthly and available to download from LSHTM Research Online.
Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 27, 500 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries last month were Germany…
The Library & Archives Service has subscribed to the Portico E-Journal Preservation Service.
Portico works with publishers and libraries to preserve eJournal content and associated metadata. Journal content is transferred to Portico, with all descriptive metadata and structured full-text transformed to an archival format. Content is regularly validated…
The School celebrated Open Access Week with two 90 minute seminars. The first was held at Keppel Street on Thursday, while the second took place on Friday.
Emma Golding, Research Online Administrator kicked off by presenting the Publishing Open Access webpages for staff and students at the School have recently…
In 1947, the then Librarian, Cyril C. Barnard, wrote a history of the School’s Library. In it, he included a section on the information skills training offered to students over the years. As you can see from the transcript below, things haven’t changed very much.
Instruction to Students…
