Thursday, 19 January 2012

LSHTM publications freely available online!

We are pleased to announce that LSHTM Research Online is now available http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/

LSHTM Research Online is the freely accessible database of the School's research, it holds the bibliographic details of research outputs together with the full text, wherever possible. At present there are over 19,000 records with more than 1,800 full text items, all authored by LSHTM researchers.

Material covered includes articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and reports.
LSHTM Research Online is part of the growing Open Access movement to facilitate the open exchange of scholarly research.

Benefits:
Increased visibility, usage, citations and impact of research
Showcase for LSHTM of our research output
Rapid dissemination of research which allows further research to be conducted
Access to research not dependent on geography or finance
Availability of publicly funded research provides transparency

Features:
Browse by year, faculty, centre, author
Search by name, journal, author, funder, item type, PubMed ID, Web of Science ISI Id
Ability to hold various formats for text, image and video
Access to individual download/viewing statistics by article, researcher, department
Indexed by Google, Google Scholar,
Export to endnote, excel, reference manager
Embed list of publications in your own websites via RSS feeds

The LSHTM Research Online team can provide research with support on any issues relating to copyright, publisher permissions and open access. In the next few months we will be adding more full text to LSHTM Research Online, improving features and visiting researchers in the School to further publicise this new resource and answer any questions.

If you have any questions or comments please let us know on researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk

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