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The Library of the LSE is a resource for social science researchers and economists. It serves 8,900 students.
Brief history
The LSE Library (British Library of Political and Economic Science) was founded in 1896 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, founders of the LSE. It is a Library for LSE and a resource for social science researchers. It serves 8,900 students. The Library moved to its current location – the Lionel Robbins Building in 1978. This building was redeveloped by the architects Foster and Partners in 2001.
Collections
The Library holds over 4 million books and journals. It collects comprehensively in economics and other core social sciences and contains material in the major European languages. Special collections include government publications, the publications of intergovernmental organisations, historical pamphlets, and statistics. There is a substantial archive collection.
Archives include those of the Fabian Society, the Liberal Party, papers of individual politicians and the Hall Carpenter Archives. http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/Default.htm
The Library subscribes to a wide-range of electronic databases covering the social sciences and over 15,000 electronic journals. http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/elelib.htm
More on the LSE's collection policy can be found here.
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Institutional repositories
The Library is a depository for European Union documents, United Nations documents and United States federal government documents.
LSE has an online institutional repository, LSE Research Online, which contains open access articles and other research papers by LSE academics. LSE Research Online has been created as part of the SHERPA-LEAP University of London consortium, led by UCL.
Digital Library Projects
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences available online is published by the Library. http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/IBSS/.
The Library is involved in a number of collaborative projects and partnerships. These include several digitisation projects, for example:
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has funded a digitisation project 19th Century Pamphlets Online in which LSE is a partner.
The JISC has provided funding for digital repositories projects and LSE is participating in two of these:
LSE is leading the Version Identification Framework Project, with Erasmus University of Rotterdam as one of the associate partners, to develop a framework for version identification of digital objects. The project will develop guidelines and a toolkit for researchers and other stakeholders.
LSE is a partner in the DISC-UK Datashare Project which is being led by Edina. Datashare aims to introduce and test a new model of data sharing and archiving to UK research institutions.
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