One of the most common indoor potted plants is the rubber plant (Ficus elastica). There are two rubber plants in the Library, one at each end of the main Reading Room. They have been here for about ten years, and during that time, have been pruned on several occasions. Cuttings…
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The Library & Archives Service F2F Student Survey 2014, which takes just 7 to 10 minutes to complete, is now live online at https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/lasf2fstudentsurvey2014 and will be open until Thursday 17th April. All participants…
A new HIV/AIDS collection has been kindly donated to the LSHTM archives today. The papers relate to the working life of Dr Joseph Sonnabend (b. 1933), physician, clinical researcher, and community activist who played a significant role in the fight against AIDS from it’s earliest onset in the…
This morning the 400th FOI request was received by the School so I thought that this was worth commenting on. The Freedom of Information Act was brought into force in 2005 with the aim of making public authorities more transparent. It gives the public the right to access information held…
With the deadline of Friday 28th February fast approaching, you have one week left to send in your photographs to this year’s Photo Competition.
There are three cash prizes to be won, and the winning entry will appear on the School’s website and Chariot news blog. Previous winning…
The catalogue of the papers of Kaye Welling is now available on the LSHTM archives catalogue. The papers relate to her work she undertook on HIV/AIDS public education and media coverage during the 1980s-1990s whilst based in the Centre of Sexual and Reproductive Health (CSRH) at the School…
Thomson Reuters announced today that SciELO is now available via the Web of Science.
SciELO is an open access database, providing links to articles from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal and South Africa. These cover a range of health, agriculture and social sciences subjects.
To search SciELO, login to…
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we are focussing on our most romantic item in the collection – the Carpenter diary. This is a joint diary between a married couple, Geoffrey and Amy Carpenter, who lived and worked in Uganda in the 1920s researching sleeping sickness. Read more
Mark (the librarian) looked up from a pile of pamphlets on nutrition and water supply and mused “why are these ‘bex-ee’ (BEXY) and ‘sez-ee’ (SEZY)?” As a young twenty something with (mostly) one thing on his mind he was no doubt hoping there would be books bearing the…
Image caption: Push down and turn by mag3737. License: some rights reserved CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
LSHTM Research Online kicked started the New Year with another month of high downloads. In January nearly 17, 000 full text papers were downloaded from the site, with China, Germany and the…
Open Research Seminar: Enhancing the speed and impact of science communication using BioRxiv and Medrxiv
February 4, 2025
World Cancer Day 2025
February 4, 2025
World Leprosy Day 2025
January 24, 2025
Effective Literature Searching: relevant for MSc Projects – booking now available (all sessions on Zoom).
January 21, 2025
Book Display: Dry January: Jan 1- January 31, 2025.
January 6, 2025
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