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

Collection of the month: Major HS Leeson

Image reference: List of camping equipment for Leeson’s expedition across East Africa, 1936 (GB 0809 Leeson/01/03). Image credit: LSHTM Library & Archives Service.

To coincide with our exhibition on travel, expeditions and discovery currently on display in the Library we have chosen to focus on the papers of Major HS Leeson who travelled extensively during his career as an entomologist (someone who studies insects) for this month’s blog post.

Born in Liverpool, Leeson began his career in the Entomological Department of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1909. Leeson served in the Royal Army Medical Core during the First World War and on returning he passed his sanitation examinations and became an Associate of the Royal Sanitary Institute. He began his association with LSHTM in 1925 after being chosen as collector-demonstrator to Colonel A Alcock in the Entomological Department.

Leeson travelled widely for his studies of the Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus mosquitoes, which transmit the malaria parasite. His research took him to: Southern Rhodesia (1926-1928 and 1933-1936); East Africa, including Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika (1936); Greece (1938) and Albania (1938). During the Second World War he played an important part in malaria prevention in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Cyprus by carrying out anopheline surveys as the entomologist of No.2 Malaria Field Laboratory. From 1943-1945 he was also in charge of the malaria wing of the Middle East School of Hygiene. When the War ended he returned to LSHTM to work as lecturer in the Department of Entomology.

The Leeson collection, held in the School’s Archives contains a wealth of documents relating to his career and expeditions including scientific notes, reports, photographs, correspondence, maps, itineraries, menus and drawings. We also have a film of Leeson’s 1936 expedition across East Africa, which provides a fascinating record of the expedition’s journey from Croydon airport, travels and work in East Africa, the people they met and wonderful views of the scenery and wildlife they encountered.

If you would like to find out more about or make an appointment to consult the Leeson collection please see the Archives website or email us at archives@lshtm.ac.uk for further information.

The exhibition on travel, expeditions and discovery is on display in the Library until the end of this month.

2012 Ovid MEDLINE reload

Ovid have informed us that they aim to complete the 2012 reload of Ovid Medline on 3 January 2012. Between 16 December 2011 and 3 January 2012 there will be no updates to the Medline database. Therefore, if you have auto alerts set up, you will not receive any updates during this time.

The annual reload allows Ovid to update the database, reconfigure the data and add any new MeSH terms. Updates for 2012 include:

• Pharmacological Action limit added to limits
• New MeSH terms including: coinfection, disease resistance, drinking water, numbers needed to treat, occupational injuries, patient safety, reproductive health, sex workers, social media, text messaging, water quality. A full list of new MeSH terms is available at  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/newd.html.
  Note that the new terms will only be added to articles added to the database from 01 January 2012. They will not be retrospectively added to articles already added to the database.
• Changes to MeSH terms are listed at  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/prefterm_change.html. There are a few changes which may be of interest to School staff and students.
• Deleted MeSH terms are listed at  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/deleted.html. These will not be deleted from articles already indexed with these terms, however from January 2012, the replacement terms will be used instead.
• A complete list of the changes made to MeSH for 2012 is given at  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/introduction.html.
  
  

Festive recipes from the Archives

This leaflet, published in December 1945, is from a series of seasonal recipes produced by the Ministry of Food during the period of food rationing in Britain during and following the Second World War.

This and many other Ministry of Food leaflets are available to view in the LSHTM Archives as part of the Nutrition Collection. Please see the Archives website for further information.

Image reference: LSHTM Library & Archives Service, Nutrition/06/05 Ministry Of Food cookery leaflets and pamphlets

Inter-library loans over the holiday period

If you are in a hurry to obtain material via the inter-library loans service please ensure that your requests are placed before 5.00pm on Friday 16th December. We will not process any inter-loan requests received after this time until the Library reopens on 4th January. This allows us to process and receive all requests before both the School and the British Library close for Christmas, reducing the chance of any going astray.

You can find more information about how the inter-library loans service can source information not held at the School on our webpages

Collection of the month: Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health

This month we are focussing on our collection of posters, ephemera, and campaign and evaluation material from our Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection. The collection was donated to the Archives Service by the School’s Centre in 2004 and includes a wealth of visual and textual material concerning the first 20 years of AIDS prevention and awareness in Europe. The collection contains over 700 items which serve as a valuable resource for those studying the early impact of HIV/AIDS and global pandemics as well as public health propaganda.

The posters concern issues such as safe sex and the harmful effects of sharing needles. They originate from countries across Europe and use strong imagery to illustrate how HIV is transmitted. The ephemera in the collection includes t-shirts, caps, condom packaging, badges, bags, leaflets and tapes and videos from various countries. The evaluation and campaign material includes pamphlets and leaflets from campaigns carried out across Europe and surveys and research collated by various market research companies.

An exhibition of some of the posters from the 1980s-1990s is on display in the Library Exhibition area until 22 December 2011. If you would like to find out more about the collection or any other of the collections held in the Archives visit our webpage at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives or contact us at archives@lshtm.ac.uk

Government committed to open access to publicly funded research

The government report Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth includes a commitment to make publicly funded research free to access. http://tinyurl.com/dxu4wwy.