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Digital Commons@TMC Celebrates 20th Anniversary

On April 5th, 2005, the 1st article was deposited in Digital Commons@TMC. Since then, 34k+ items have been deposited, including dissertations/theses and projects, archival materials and also the platform to host 7 peer-reviewed academic journals. This institutional repository now having close to 2.5 million downloads viewed by 230 countries, 10k institutions since its first download.

On April 5th, 2005, the first article was deposited in Digital Commons@TMC. Since then, 34k+ items have been deposited, including dissertations/theses and projects, library archival materials from John P. McGovern Historical Collections & Research Center and also the platform to host 7 open access peer-reviewed academic journals. This institutional repository reached its 2 million milestone […]

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Accessing Full Text at the TMC Library

Open book with medical icons in blue

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 […]

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The TMC Library Digital Commons Exhibits Featured on Elsevier’s Products

Digital Commons Exhibits Page

Elsevier has recently highlighted The TMC Library’s Digital Commons Exhibits as one of their “Current DC Exhibit Customers” featured on their Digital Commons Exhibits page. Since 2023, The TMC Library started to add Digital Commons Exhibits to this online collection available to users worldwide. Currently there are 8 regular exhibits, as well as a scrolling […]

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Medical Society Titles provided by the TMC Library and Elsevier

  We offer prestigious medical society titles acquired by Elsevier and licensed by the TMC Library (now available in one collection).   The Library pays Elsevier additional fees — outside of our usual Science Direct package fees– to provide our users access to these flagship titles:   American Journal of Transplantation  Blood British Journal of Anesthesia […]

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Explore Databases in the A to Z list!

Our Library provides a wide variety of resources from publishers, Texas state programs, federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and other reliable information sources. To explore the Library’s extensive A to Z list of databases and websites, go to “Find Books and Collections” in our top menu, or under our Core Resources, click on “More Databases”. You […]

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100+ Years of Houston Academy of Medicine, Texas Medical Center Library: A Scrolling Exhibition

Texas Medical Center Library Exhibit Page Homepage

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? One of the features it has is exhibits, where you would get to view, experience and download the images, […]

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Katie Prentice Appointed Executive Director of TMC Library

TMC Library Building Outside

Katherine A. Prentice (Katie) has been appointed Executive Director of the TMC Library effective December 7, 2020.  She replaces Debbie Sibley, Executive Director since August 2017. Prentice, a native Texan, comes to Houston from the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa where she was the Associate Director of the Schusterman Library and an Associate Professor. She was […]

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