London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Library

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LSHTM Press

https://press.lshtm.ac.uk/site/

Camilla Ridgewell
Email: camilla.ridgewell@lshtm.ac.uk

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To provide an open access platform to publish peer-reviewed research and high-quality educational resources, in accordance with the LSHTM mission to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide. To encourage and facilitate innovative and experimental publication methods, with an emphasis on accessibility and inclusivity for authors and readers. To enable the widest possible dissemination so people around the world can find and access information they need without barriers.

• Publishing activities began: 2022
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
• Individual people: 1
• Funding sources: Grants, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Journals
• Monographs
• Newsletters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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