(and information about what is happening within the STEM information landscape)
With the transition to the new government in the United States, we are seeing some major changes in the US federal information landscape.
This blog post aims to bring together information for LSHTM staff and students on alternative sources…
Each year, the National Library of Medicine updates the MeSH headings used to tag and index items added to the Medline or PubMed database. This is to update the terminology to keep up with changes in practice and also to edit any terms which have been found to be problematic…
Fresh Martian Impact Crater by Stuart Rankin (CC-BY) https://flic.kr/p/ptSdih
As users of the School’s Publications Database and LSHTM Research Online may have noticed the Altmetrics plug-in which records social media mentions of research by our academic staff.
It’s an impressive tool which…
I was recently asked this question by a student who was rather surprised by my answer. I took the student up to the Library’s Wellcome Gallery where we looked at print copies of Index Medicus, going back to volume one, printed in 1879.
Index Medicus was published every month…
