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Changes to Digital Commons Author Dashboards

Changes to Digital Commons Author Dashboards

Did you know that DigitalCommons@TMC site gets visits and downloads from 150+ countries around the world? If you have contributed thesis and dissertations, or submitted to Open Journals in the past, maps shown on these dashboards have changed from Google Maps to now Bing Maps. To provide better service to the growing, and increasingly international,… Continue Reading Changes to Digital Commons Author Dashboards […]

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Elsevier Society Titles

  The TMC Library provides an additional package of Elsevier resources that cover a range of topics. TMC Library pays Elsevier additional fees to provide access to the following flagship publisher titles. The list includes:   American Journal of Transplantation Blood British Journal of Anesthesia Chest Genetics in Medicine JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging      Cardiovascular… Continue Reading Elsevier Society Titles […]

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DigitalCommons@TMC Has Reached Milestone of 2 Million Total Downloads

Breaking news, DigitalCommons@TMC Has Reached 2 Million Tootal Downloads

DigitalCommons@TMC has reached milestone of 2,000,005 total downloads today, with a collection of 14,685 items in total, viewed by 227 countries worldwide by 29,933 institutions. When was last time that you visited the DigitalCommons@TMC site? DigitalCommons@TMC, a continuously growing collection shares, publishes and preserves works produced by faculty, scientists and students at TMC institutions. Many… Continue Reading DigitalCommons@TMC Has Reached Milestone of 2 Million Total Downloads […]

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New Digital Commons@TMC Site Design!

Digital Commons@TMC New Site Design

When was the last time that you visited the DigitalCommons@TMC site? If you haven’t yet, make sure you get a chance to check it out! The new design now matches the design of the main library website, and the labels “Peer-reviewed and Journal Series” have been changed to “Open Journals“. Additionally, the new designed site… Continue Reading New Digital Commons@TMC Site Design! […]

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Accessing Full Text at the TMC Library

The TMC Library provides access to over 70,000 online journals,  over a million ebooks and over 300 databases. We have subscription and freely available resources for students, faculty, researchers, clinicians, administrative assistants, and others seeking authoritative health/medical content. Need help figuring out how to get to the full text? Please see our YouTube video, Getting… Continue Reading Accessing Full Text at the TMC Library […]

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Open Access Publishing – Fee Waivers and Discounts

Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. The Texas Medical Center Library is exploring available licensing options that provide our local authors financial support to… Continue Reading Open Access Publishing – Fee Waivers and Discounts […]

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New Photo Collections on DigitalCommons@TMC

New Photo Collections

When was the last time you have visited Digital Commons @ TMC, an online repository sponsored by The TMC Library? Since this past fall, there are now more than 10k items on this online repository, viewed by 165+ countries, with 30k+ downloads monthly. There has been lots of new photo collections available added to this… Continue Reading New Photo Collections on DigitalCommons@TMC […]

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PubMed use at the TMC Library — over 300,000 article downloads in last 12 months

  PubMed is known as a critical repository for healthcare and other professionals seeking medical research articles. Ever wondered how much our TMC Library users rely on PubMed for article discovery and access? In the last 12 months, our users downloaded 303,882 articles from PubMed, via our library’s PubMed account. The ten most popular journals,… Continue Reading PubMed use at the TMC Library — over 300,000 article downloads in last 12 months […]

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Digital Commons@TMC Reached 1.85 Million Total Downloads

Did you know Digital Commons @ TMC is an online repository sponsored by The TMC Library with a growing collection that preserves and dedicated to preserve works produced by faculty, scientists and students at TMC institutions? Some of these examples include presentations, dissertations and theses, student projects, teaching materials, data sets, images, video/audio files may… Continue Reading Digital Commons@TMC Reached 1.85 Million Total Downloads […]

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Digital Commons@TMC Sept 2022-Aug 2023 Report

Digital Commons exhibits, ranging from history of The TMC Library, historical A/V and other topics.

Digital Commons@TMC experienced a busy year with 702 new articles, images, dissertations, and audio-visual materials submissions (255% increase from 2022), bringing the total count to 8,338 articles in the online repository. 205,552 total downloads were recorded with an average of 58.5 submissions added per month, viewed monthly by 7066 institutions and 210 countries (up 5.5%… Continue Reading Digital Commons@TMC Sept 2022-Aug 2023 Report […]

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