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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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% […]

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