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The survey ends 15th April

TODAY - International Women’s Day and Gems of the Collections

The Mary Kingsley medal awarded to Sir Patrick Manson in 1905. Image credit: LSHTM

We are celebrating International Women’s Day in the Library & Archives Service with an exhibition in the Library and ‘Gems from the Collection’ session in the South courtyard.

This lunchtime, staff and students are invited to have a closer look at the fascinating historical collections that are held at the School. In a 'Gems from the Collections' session Between 12pm and 2pm on the ground floor of the South Courtyard, staff will be available to show you some of the rare and unique documents, artefacts and books that we hold relating to Women in Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Women represented will include:

Cicely Williams – Doctor and child health Pioneer

Mary Kingsley – Traveller, writer and Boer war nurse in whose memory the Mary Kingsley medal was instituted.

Mabel Clark – influential nutritionist of the 1920s and 30s who helped lay the basis for the British food policy of the Second World War.

Florence Nightingale – well-known nurse of the Crimean War

Amy Carpenter - wife and research partner of entomologist Geoffrey Carpenter

Janet Lane-Claypon – English physician who was one of the earliest pioneers of epidemiology.

There is no need to make an appointment, just drop by and see us outside the Manson Lecture Theatre and find out more about the School's historical collections

The related exhibition will be available to view in the Library until April.

For further information, please contact Philippa Mole, Temporary Assistant Archivist at archives@lshtm.ac.uk.

Library closure - 9th March

The Library will be closed from 1.30pm on Friday 9th March to host a reception for distance learning students and alumni.

We will re-open at 9am on Saturday 10th March.

Free trial to SCOPUS now on!

The Library has arranged for a 1-month free trial of the SCOPUS database, running from 27 February.

SCOPUS is the number one rated database on our 'most wanted' list. However, the cost is rather high (approx £10,000 per annum, plus VAT). Therefore we would like your feedback on whether you think it provides sufficient added value when used in conjunction with the other databases we provide.

Access
Go to www.scopus.com.
If you are accessing SCOPUS from outside School, click the Login option at the top right of the screen, choose the 'Athens/Other Institution login' option, then choose the 'UK Access Management Federation' option. Finally choose 'London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine' from the list of institutions and enter your username and password in the login box (DL students should enter their UoL Portal username and password at this point).

What does SCOPUS contain?
SCOPUS contains bibliographic information for thousands of journals in the life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences and social sciences including all of the data indexed in MEDLINE.

The Analytics section provides the SCOPUS alternative to the journal impact factor.

SCOPUS also provides direct PDF links to the journals we subscribe to via the ScienceDirect platform.

Feedback
Please leave your feedback in the comments, or email me directly jane.falconer@lshtm.ac.uk.

Paintings Online Project

Five of LSHTM’s oil paintings have joined nearly 2000 others from the London Borough of Camden on the Your Paintings website at: bbc.co.uk/yourpaintings.

Tess Barnes’ portrait of Baroness Lynda Chalker, Graham Cole’s painting of the Keppel Street building, Hubert Andrew Freeth’s portrait of Robert Leiper, Harry Herman Salomon's portrait of Sir Patrick Manson and Margaret Lindsay Williams' portrait of Sir George Newman are now visible on the website alongside paintings by Canaletto, Hogarth, Benjamin West and many others.

The Your Paintings project is intended to create a complete online catalogue of every oil painting in the national collection, and members of the public are invited to tag the works already available on the website to make them more discoverable.

Paintings from the LSHTM collection can be viewed here.

February Resource of the Month: World Development Indicators

Our February “Resource of the month” is the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, a compilation of data from officially-recognised sources that presents researchers with up-to-date and accurate information on global health and development. Including statistics produced by more than 150 nations, the WDI has published new material every year since 1960. Much of this data comes from the official statistics of its member countries (1).

WDI statistics can be browsed by country, topic and indicator, and the information in the World Bank database comes accompanied by notes that help to contextualise the numbers in terms of development (2).

Access to the WDI is provided through the UK-based Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), a national service that came into operation in 2003. Access to ESDS can be found in the library’s electronic resources section (data, statistics and bibliometrics).

• WDI (ESDS International) 
• WDI (World Bank website) 

For further information on WDI and ESDS, please visit:

• World Bank, Data Overview. 
• World Bank, World Development Indicators Data. 
• ESDS International, About ESDS. 

Collection of the month - Michael Stewart Rees Hutt (1922-2000)

In the wake of World Cancer Day last weekend, we have been considering scientists represented in the LSHTM archives who contributed towards the understanding and prevention of cancers. Michael Stewart Rees Hutt, whose papers make up one of our smallest collections, is one of these.

Hutt was an English pathologist who spent nearly a decade of his career in Uganda during the 1960s, as Professor of Pathology at Makerere University College, Kampala.  As well as helping to shape and strengthen the medical infrastructure in Uganda, including establishing a successful cancer register there, Hutt used this time to travel around the mission and government hospitals of Uganda and eastern Zaire with Dennis Burkitt,  gathering cancer incidence data.  In addition to demonstrating the non-uniformity of cancers like Burkitt's lymphoma, oesophageal and liver cancer, their research brought to light the prevalence of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) on the Uganda/Zaire border, where it accounted for 10 per cent of all tumours among adults. KS was initially one of the most common AIDS symptoms, making this discovery crucial when the epidemic of HIV and Aids became apparent in later decades.

Hutt’s return to the UK in 1970 did not signal the end of his interest in Africa. As Professor of Geographical Pathology at St Thomas’, he developed a system of diagnostic pathology for resource-poor countries and he continued to support medicine in Africa long after his retirement in 1983. 

The archives hold diaries and papers relating to Hutt’s work, including accounts of his safari to the Western Province in 1962 and his Uganda trip in 1967.

If you would like to view or find out more about the Hutt’s papers, please visit our webpage at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/ or contact us at archives@lshtm.ac.uk.