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McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston

A one-stop shop for library resources related to the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston! Find texbooks by course, get started on research with biomedical databases, and learn about APA citing.

Where do I start?

Databases differ in their subject focus, so it's important to choose the right one for your research needs. Below, you'll find a list of general research databases. Be sure to review the descriptions to select the most suitable resource for your topic.

For health informatics research, PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science are excellent starting points.

Search TMC Library Databases

Our A-Z Database list helps you find the best library databases for your research. You can use this database list to:

  • Find journal articles and data not otherwise available, accessible or discoverable through a Google search
  • Authenticate yourself through our servers in order to freely access information
  • See the full range of online services offered through the library

Databases

  • AccessMedicine
    • Full-text access to key medical reference texts covering anesthesiology, behavioral medicine, cardiology, and surgery, plus drug guides, practice guidelines, patient education material, self-assessments, and health news.
  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text
    • Full-text access to nursing and allied health journals, plus healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and standards of practice.
  • Embase
    • International biomedical and pharmacological database that indexes journals and conference abstracts. Also contains full-text indexing of drug, disease and medical device data.
  • Gale One File Health and Medicine
    • Up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. Includes more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries,
  • Google Scholar
    • A freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
  • IEEE Xplore
    • Full-text access to the technical literature of electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
  • PubMed 
    • National Library of Medicine's interface to the MEDLINE database and to citations from additional sources such as online books, journals not selected for MEDLINE, and articles not yet published. Contains citations covering all fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the healthcare system, and preclinical sciences.
  • Web of Science
    • Scientific citation index of leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.