I’d never thought I would enter Parliament, but earlier this year, I was lucky enough to be able to take part in a visit to the House of Commons Library, through a programme provided by the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries. Once I’d got through the strict security…
How publishing open access raises the profile of your research
We all know that we should be publishing open access. Sharing scientific information is good for science and good for humanity, facilitating progress and helping to distribute its fruits more widely and equitably. And if that doesn’t persuade you…
Did you know School authors have collaborated with authors in Liechtenstein? Or Greenland? Or North Korea? Or that the top three European countries which cite our work are the UK, Switzerland and The Netherlands?
Now you can explore which other countries the School has collaborated with or been cited by…
Open Access Week is now in its eighth year offering the opportunity to celebrate our achievements so far, and further promote awareness to help make Open Access the new norm in research worldwide.
Exemplifying some of the achievements at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the institutional repository…
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…
Image caption: Metric Mania by Batega. License: CC-BY
Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 21,000 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries last month were Germany, US and France. Below are the top five downloaded papers for August:
Lockman, S; Shapiro, RL; Smeaton, LM; Wester…
You may have noticed the recently installed Altmetrics plug-in on the School’s online repository of research – LSHTM Research Online as well as on the Schools’ Publications Database. Below each paper now appears a doughnut or polo with different colours and a number to quickly convey information about each…
Decolonial practice for library collections, part 2
June 1, 2021
Decolonial practice for library collections, part 1
June 1, 2021
Henry Vandyke Carter (1831-1897): LSHTM Rare Books blog series No. 1
May 21, 2021
Your chance to have your say!
May 20, 2021
Effective Literature Searching: ‘refresher’ summary training sessions for MSc students – booking now available.
May 4, 2021
Open Access Feeds