Browse Journals and Peer-Reviewed Series

Another feature on DigitalCommons@TMC is the growing peer reviewed journals hosted on this site, submitted by McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, Children at Risk and Prairie View A&M.

Some of these journals hosted on this site include Teaching in Clinics, had been mentioned in the UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School's media outlet, "Journal opens discussion on medical education." The VAD journal started in 2015, is the longest running born digital e-journal hosted on this repository.

Interested in publishing an open-access journal? Please email DigCommons@library.tmc.edu or call 713-799-4200 for more info.

 

Current Journals

Archived Journals and Peer Reviewed Series

Advances in Teaching and Learning Day Abstracts (Advances in Teaching and Learning Day)

Abstracts from the talks presented at a UTSHIS regional conference showcasing research and innovations in teaching, learning and technology.

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk (Children at Risk)

ISSN 2155-5834

The Journal of Applied Research on Children is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal uniquely focused on the needs of children through a holistic prism. Focused on interdisciplinary research that is linked to practical, evidenced-based policy solutions for children’s issues, JARC serves to inform legislative and policy decisions, as well as existing and innovative practice models.

Furthermore, JARC aims to serve as a resource to child advocates and community stakeholders by providing case studies on how innovative research and data have been used effectively to influence local, state, or national policies. JARC focuses on timely child-related topics including—but not limited to—human trafficking, food insecurity, and the quality of public education.

If you have questions about the submission or review process, please contact jarc@childrenatrisk.org for assistance.

See the new Call for Papers released December 4th, 2023 on Child and Adolescent Suicide Prevention

Journal of Digital Psychiatry (McGovern Medical School)

The Journal of Digital Psychiatry is an open-access, peer-reviewed online academic journal uniquely focused on digital mental health including digital technologies and analyses. Broadly covered topics include mental health apps, electronic health records (EHR) systems, machine learning algorithms, affective computing, informatics, health data science, telemedicine/telepsychiatry and medical device development related with psychiatry.

Journal of Digital Psychiatry aims to serve as a discussion floor for people from different backgrounds such as bioinformatics, engineering, medicine, especially psychiatry and various aspects of mental health. If you have questions about the submission or review process, please contact the editor for assistance.

Call for Articles

The journal is now accepting articles!

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

Journal of Family Strengths (Children at Risk)

ISSN 2168-670X

The Journal of Family Strengths (JFS), formerly Family Preservation Journal, is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed online journal produced by CHILDREN AT RISK in partnership with the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center - Prairie View A&M University and The TMC Library. JFS is devoted to presenting theoretical, policy, practice, and evaluation articles on the strengths perspective in family-centered practice to improve services that promote and sustain family systems.

If you have questions about the submission or review process, please contact jfs@childrenatrisk.org for assistance.

See the two new Call for Papers on the Victim-Offender Overlap in Youth and Young Adults and on Substance Abuse and the Family

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Journal of Nursing & Interprofessional Leadership in Quality & Safety (Baylor College of Medicine)

ISSN 2471-2639

Journal of Nursing & Interprofessional Leadership in Quality & Safety (JoNILQS) is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal focusing on practical quality improvement initiatives that have the potential to improve patient outcomes over a broad spectrum of healthcare settings. Its target audience and contributors include nurses, physicians and other healthcare professionals, researchers, and administrators concerned with improving healthcare outcomes.

Published in spring and fall, the journal was launched in fall of 2016, and the last issue was published in fall of 2022. The issues highlight small scale quality improvement and safety projects that address specific areas of practice improvement, including administrative, clinical, and healthcare-related initiatives.

Journal of Shock and Hemodynamics (McGovern Medical School)

ISSN 2836-0605

Journal of Shock and Hemodynamics (JoSH) publishes original research manuscripts, review articles, and case reports related to all aspects of shock including cardiogenic, septic, neurogenic, and vasodilatory circulatory collapse. Additionally, we seek papers with an emphasis on invasive and non-invasive hemodynamic assessments that span the entire field of cardiovascular medicine. JoSH is an open-access publication that is the official Journal of the Annual Houston Shock Symposium.

Target Audience: Cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, interventionalists, intensivists, neuro-intensivists, nurses, and others interested in critical care, hemodynamics, and cardiovascular medicine.

Editor-in-Chief: Marwan Jumean, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Chairmen of Editorial Board: Biswajit Kar, MD; and Igor D. Gregoric, MD, FACC

Managing Editors: Jessica A. Moody, PhD, ELS and Jennifer Peterson, PhD, ELS

Review Process: Blinded Peer-Review

Lead Times for Submitted Manuscripts: Submission to 1st Decision 30 days

 

Teaching in Clinics (McGovern Medical School)

ISSN 2835-2017

Teaching in Clinics is an open-access, peer-reviewed online academic journal uniquely focused on medical education. Broadly covered topics include both undergraduate (UME) and graduate medical education (GME), andragogy, patient education or psychoeducation, innovations in learning, health and teaching policies, data driven applications of teaching and learning methods, fair opportunity in education, spreading excellence in clinical practice and medical quality education.

Teaching in Clinics aims to serve as a discussion floor for people from different backgrounds such as education, medicine, sociology, public health and especially psychology of education. If you have questions about the submission or review process, please contact the editor for assistance.

Call for Articles

The journal is now accepting articles!

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

The VAD Journal (McGovern Medical School)

ISSN 2378-2706

The VAD Journal is the official journal of the Brano Heart Failure Forum.

It is a multidisciplinary forum for all subspecialties in the field of mechanical assisted circulation and advanced heart failure. It is created with the purpose of enabling rapid dissemination of swift and unbiased clinical research and observations.

Content from previous issues can be browsed by using the drop-down menu in the sidebar, and you can also navigate directly to previous volumes using the links below:

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-) (TMC Library Newsletters)

The latest resources to support research

Current TMC Library news is available on a monthly basis, with features of articles from McGovern Historical Center, Resource Management & Discovery Services and various articles featuring monthly observances related to health topics.

TMC Library Newsletter is available since 2015- 2016 and 2021-current. No newsletter published between 2017 through 2020.

For more highlights and latest updates of The TMC Library, visit Library News from the library website.