Coronavirus and Library services

We are available 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday to support you.

Contact us by: 

• Email
• Library Chat (IM)
• Twitter
• Facebook

• Contact your department librarian with any specialist enquiries for your teaching, studies and research.

• Explore our research support guides and contact specialists on publishing, data management and research impact. 

We are currently finalising plans to open up our building for LSE staff and students. An update will be available shortly.

We are currently finalising plans to open up collections for LSE staff and students. An update will be available shortly.

You can now return books to us between 11.30am and 2.30pm, Monday to Friday.

Call 07972 461 815 when you arrive at the Library to meet a member of staff. 

You will not be able to enter the building. 

We have been able to secure additional resources to help you with your online learning, research and teaching. 

New and improved resources for LSE staff and students

• JSTOR - enhanced access to all JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections covering all areas of social sciences and humanities. 
• Gale Primary Sources - access to Archives of Sexuality & Gender, China & the Modern World and Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
• Coronavirus Research Database.
• S&P Capital IQ - financial data, analytics, and research.
• Elsevier - Novel Coronavirus Information Center.

Access a range of resources wherever you are in the world; including JSTOR, Project Muse, Sage Journals.

Find out about online resources for LSE Alumni and sign up for access

Free/Open Access resources 

• CORE - The world’s largest collection of open access research papers 
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) 
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 
• JSTOR Open Access ebooks 

COVID-19 research available to all

• JSTOR - 26 journal archives in Public Health
• Oxford University Press
• Royal Society
• Taylor and Francis
• Wiley Online Library 
• Brill
• Cochrane Library
• Digital Science
• Emerald
• Microbiology Society
• MIT Press - Pandemics and Epidemiology
• Sage Journals
• Springer Nature

Due to the current situation with coronavirus, our archives and special collections can't be accessed.

We are currently reviewing our services and how we might be able to provide access to these collections in the future.

In the meantime, you can still access our digitised collections, or explore our collection highlights to find out more about our archives and special collections.

Our team of curators can help you according to their area of expertise.

You can also send us any general enquiries, and we'll do our best to help. 

Online exhibitions and collections

• Take a look at our Google Arts and Culture online exhibits. Including stories of the women's suffrage movement, and LGBTQ+ activism.
• Explore the Women’s Rights Collection and other digitised archives and books on LSE Digital Library. 
• Browse collections and freely download images from our Unsplash and Flickr pages. 
• Access thousands of pages in our Economic History Digital Collection.
• Explore Charles Booth’s London: Poverty Maps and Police Notebooks.

If you can't access something that you need, let us know.

• Recommend we add an ebook to our collections.

We aren't able to order print titles at the moment, but if what you want is available electronically then we should be able to get you access.

If you can't access something that you need, let us know.

• Request an article or chapter through the Interlending service. 

We aren't able to order paper copies of articles or chapters at the moment.

We are aware that in the current circumstances some researchers aren't able to access some of the secure datasets they need for their research (eg ONS data). The Library, Research and Innovation and Cyber Security are working together to identify the researchers affected and investigate potential solutions. 

If you are facing issues for your research projects, please get in touch via datalibrary@lse.ac.uk in the first instance. We can then work with you and data providers to provide support. 

 As students and researchers are no longer able to conduct face-to-face data collection, new guidance has been produced to provide advice and tips for doing online data collection.

Please see our guides for:

• undergraduate and master's students

• postgraduate research students and researchers

Unfortunately we are unable to give remote access to Bloomberg; however, you can use S&P Capital IQ to access company data.  

Register as a new user with your LSE email address to access the site. 

If it doesn't have what you need, email datalibrary@lse.ac.uk and be as specific as you can about your data requirements so they can advise.