The School Library has been selected to contribute to the UK Medical Heritage Library digitisation project, joint funded by the Wellcome Library and JISC. The project aims to create high quality digital scans of 19th century medical books and pamphlets … Continue reading
BBC News, 26/11/13 Modern life ‘turning people off sex’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25094142 The Guardian, 26/11/13 One in 10 women have been forced into sex against their will, Lancet study says http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/26/rise-women-coerced-into-sex-uk-survey-finds The Telegraph, 26/11/13 Women more liberated as their attitudes to sex … Continue reading
By Patricia Mechael, Executive Director, mHealth Alliance The earliest insight I gained while studying the use of mobile technology to support global health efforts is that a mobile phone is only as good as the people and services that it … Continue reading
Author: Helen Winning Helen is currently on a voluntary placement in the archives. I am sadly coming to the end of my time volunteering here at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine archives, but thankfully I have been … Continue reading
NIHR has announced that Professors Martin White and Frank Kee have been appointed as programme director and chair respectively of the NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme. The appointments are made in succession to Professor Catherine Law, whose term of … Continue reading
If you are away from the Internet or if the School does not subscribe to a particular journal students and researchers are able to benefit from an initiative to provide walk-in access to a wide range of academic articles and research … Continue reading
Are you tired of the perpetual fight to keep pages open while you take notes? Have you had enough of having to read at an awkward angle? A solution is at hand in the form of ten gorgeous new wooden … Continue reading
Taking a stand against predatory publishers As ‘Open Access’ has become an integral part of scholarly communication there have been a number of new entrants to the scholarly publishing market who have been deemed ‘predatory’. It is likely that researchers … Continue reading
Image caption: side wall of the SK3587: Sheffield bingo hall in Flat Street. Copyright Chris Downer and licenced for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Last month LSHTM Research Online had its second highest ever month of downloads with over … Continue reading
The Library will close at 5pm on Monday 16th June for an External Relations event, and will remain closed all day on Tuesday 17th June for the LAS Planning Day. The Library will reopen as usual at 8.30am on Wednesday … Continue reading