Health Informatics
Welcome to the library research guide for health informatics. This guide is designed to serve students, educators, researchers, and practitioners in the interdisciplinary field of health informatics, which is situated at the intersection of biomedical science, patient care, public health, data analytics, and information technology.
The UC Davis Library provides a variety of scholarly resources and tools to support health informaticists at all levels, including journal articles, books, and grey literature (e.g., dissertations/theses, conference proceedings) in print or electronic formats.
Getting Started
This is a sample of highly recommended resources for health informatics.
Tips for selecting and learning how to use the databases:
- Select "more" for additional information and links to tutorials
- Visit the Health Sciences Library Tutorials Guide
- Medical Informatics Journals [BrowZine]Pull up a chair and browse tables of contents of medical informatics journals using the BrowZine web platform or mobile app.
- Google ScholarSearch engine for discovering multidisciplinary scholarly journal articles, books and patents.
- PubMed for UC Davis This link opens in a new windowEssential database for finding scholarly journal articles in biomedicine, including health informatics. Special UC Davis link helps you access full-text articles.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowDatabase of top-cited peer-reviewed content in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Includes journals, conference proceedings, and books. Offers journal impact metrics and citation mapping.
- O'Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
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Online platform of technical eBooks, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths and audio books on business, information technology, data science, and engineering.
