Just published: Annual Evidence Update on HIV/AIDS behaviour change in high-risk populations

The NHS Evidence Specialist Collection for Public Health has just published the second Annual Evidence Update on HIV/AIDS behaviour change in high-risk populations, giving information on a number of related guidance and 32 systematic and literature reviews on the topic.

Annual Evidence Updates aim to bring together all high quality evidence on a specific subject published over the previous 12 months.

The NHS Evidence Specialist Collections act as a portal of high quality evidence on a variety of clinical specialties and interest areas. Each Specialist Collection is compiled by an editorial team made up of clinicians and representatives of other interested parties. They are continually updated to provide a comprehensive listing of evidence-based sources of information of interest to health professionals working within the NHS.

BIOSIS Previews database now available

The BIOSIS Previews database is now available to all School staff and students via the Web of Knowledge. Login with your network username and password when prompted. A link to BIOSIS Previews is available under the Select A Database tab.
BIOSIS Previews contains bibliographic information on all aspects of the life sciences, including botany, zoology, microbiology, agriculture, pharmacology, ecology, biomedicine, biochemistry and bioengineering.
The current deal gives access to all information produced from 1969.
Contact Jane Falconer if you would like further details.

Past MSc Exam Papers

Past MSc Exam Papers are now held on Moodle, the School's VLE. You can no longer access these resources through the Library webpages. To access the exam papers, go to the MSc pages on Moodle and open up the paper you wish to view. Any problems, please contact the Teaching Support Office.

e-resources presentation

The amount of academic information available electronically is increasing each year. It's not just databases and journals which are available online, the Library now provides other types of information in electronic format, such as:
online reading lists (does your module have an ORC?)
images (via PhotoLibrary)
e-reports
e-books
online reference works
help and user-guides
Come along to the drop-in session in the e-library where Library & Archives Service staff will be on hand to provide advice, answer queries and demonstrate the wide range of e-resources which are now available.

The e-resources session will take place on Friday 13th November from 12-2pm in the e-library (ground floor of the South Courtyard, next to the Manson Lecture Theatre).

PhotoLibrary

PhotoLibrary, the School’s image database now has over 10,000 images for staff and students to search. These include photos of the building, events, insects and people and new images are added regularly. Why not search PhotoLibrary if you need an image for a presentation, a report or a leaflet. Also please contact the Archives team at archives@lshtm.ac.uk if you have a set of images that you would like to be included.

To access PhotoLibrary go to: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/photolibrary.html. Please note that you cannot use your School username and password but the login details which are on the passwords page of the Library website at : http://intra.lshtm.ac.uk/library/passwords.html.

Gems from the Collections

Staff and students of the School are invited to take a closer look at items from the fascinating historical collections held by the Library & Archives Service.

On Monday 9th November, between 1pm and 2pm in the e-library (opposite the Manson Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of the South Courtyard), the Library & Archives Service is holding a ‘Gems from the Collections’ session where staff will be available to show you some of the rare and unique documents, artefacts and books that are held in the collections.

There is no need to make an appointment, just drop in and see us in the e-library and find out more about the School’s historical collections. For further information please contact Victoria Cranna, Archivist & Records Manager.

Material on show will include:

The notebook where Sir Ronald Ross recorded his discovery of the mosquito transmission of malaria.

A first edition of Edward Jenner’s controversial "An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ" from 1798.

Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill's initial 1950 paper on smoking and carcinoma of the lung from the BMJ online.

The box used to transport malaria infected mosquitoes from Italy to London for an experiment by Sir Patrick Manson in 1901.

"A Collection of the Yearly Bills of Mortality from 1657 to 1758 inclusive" (1759), covering the plague and the great fire of London.

Photographs of staff and students from the 1900s, giving an insight into the early days of the School.

John Snow's original pamphlet "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" (1849) setting out his ideas regarding the transmission of the disease, which were to be confirmed by the Soho outbreak of 1854. Snow's much expanded work of 1855, which includes his map of the 1854 outbreak, will also be on show.

The joint diary of the entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter and his wife Amy Frances Carpenter, recording their travels and experiences, including entries from their trips to Uganda for his research on sleeping sickness between 1913 and 1930.

The first edition of Sir Patrick Manson's "Tropical Diseases : a Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates" (1898).

Top 20 Library Books

Since the start of term there has been over 1000 transactions from the Library. The top 20 shows the most popular titles you have borrowed. At number 1 is Economic Analysis in health care by Stephen Morris, new into the top 5 is Making health policy by Kent Buse, et al.

The Library uses this information to buy more copies of the most demanded titles and to purchase the latest editions of key texts. We also welcome your recommendations of books to buy, you can suggest a title by completing the suggestion form.