As part of the ‘Improving Health in Wartime’ exhibition, we are planning a series of events using archive material.
In keeping with the World War theme, I have selected leaflets from our Nutrition collection produced by the Ministry of Food on the onset of the Second World War and after…
Science and Science Translational Medicine have made all current and past content research articles concerning the Ebola virus freely accessible to all at http://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/ebola/.
In their web statement AAAS state: “Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of the number of people killed and…
The Journal Consultation closes on 31st August 2014, and we want to hear from you whilst there’s still time. There are 3 different questionnaires, one for each Faculty:
EPH: https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/eph
ITD: https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/itd
PHP: https://www.survey.lshtm…
If you’ve been into the Library this week, you may have heard a beeping noise. No need to worry, we’re just doing a stocktake of our books.
This means that the location information on the Library Catalogue may not be correct at the moment. If you are looking…
It is now possible to follow the latest news and developments in the Library on Facebook. The Library has created a fan page on the popular social media site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/London-School-of-Hygiene-Tropical-Medicine-Library-Archives-Service/635224796567510) that provides regular updated information on…
Ever been tied to your desk all day because you couldn’t face hauling your laptop around with you? Well LSHTM library have just the thing for you! We are very excited to announce the arrival of 13 laptop lockers to free you (for a short time at least!) from…
The Library will be closing at 12pm on Friday 15th August in preparation for the Mosquito Day Event. The Library will re-open as usual at 9am on Saturday 16th August…
The Library & Archives Service holds a collection of over 20,000 items relating to Sir Ronald Ross, the discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria and the first Briton to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902.
The collection spans the whole of his career from his…
Image caption: Mathematics photo by Robert Scarth on Flickr. License: CC-BY-SA 2.0
Last month LSHTM Research Online had another month of high downloads with over 19,000 full text papers being downloaded. This month the top three downloading countries were again Germany, US and UK. Below…
On 14th August 1914, Britain officially entered the conflict that became known as the First World War. Sir Ronald Ross marked the occasion by writing a poem about the event which resonates with the spirit of the eve-of-war remarks of the British foreign secretary at the time…
