Healthcare Informatics


Note: To access databases available only to Trocaire College members from off-campus, you will need to log in using your email username and password (follow the Off-Campus Login Instructions for assistance). Databases marked as OPEN are freely accessible.


Journal Databases

Becker’s Hospital Review (OPEN)
Becker’s Healthcare is the leading source of cutting-edge business and legal information for healthcare industry leaders.

Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite contains full-text for more than 2,100 journals, nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.

CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete provides access to literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines from 1937 to present. The database indexes over 5,000 journal in the nursing field and health related fields. It also offers access to full-text and abstracted articles, evidence-based care sheets, and more.
Use this Toolkit for tips on how to use CINAHL Complete

Directory of Open Access Journals
Select from free, quality peer-reviewed full-text scholarly research journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

EBSCOhost
A large collection of scholarly and popular articles in a broad range of subjects.

Gale
Gale hosts a number of databases that cover a wide array of topics including both scholarly and popular articles.

Health Administration Database
Health Administration Database includes journal articles, and dissertations in the field.

Health & Medical Collection
This database offers reliable, comprehensive journal coverage of clinical and biomedical topics, consumer health, health administration and more.

Health and Medicine
Health and Medicine includes information created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics.

Health Business Elite
This database, updated daily, provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of healthcare administration and other non-clinical aspects of healthcare institution management.

Health Policy Reference Center
Health Policy Reference Center (HPRC) offers articles from hundreds of full-text publications, including industry-leading academic journals, monographs, magazines, trade publications and other valuable resources. In addition, it provides hundreds of thousands of records with subject headings from an extensive thesaurus.

MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings, and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.

ProQuest Central
A large collection of scholarly and popular articles on a broad range on subjects.

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
This database offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals (many full-text and peer-reviewed), dissertations, reference books and more.

eBook Databases

eBook Clinical Collection from EBSCO
This eBook collection was built specifically to support clinical professionals, researchers, and students of medical disciplines.

eBooks from EBSCOhost
Over 4,000 eBooks in science, medicine, technology and liberal arts. In addition to new books, this database contains NetLibrary titles.

Health Reference Series Online
Each volume is comprised of a wide variety of articles from authoritative sources to inform and educate readers about a disease or disorder, giving comprehensive information needed to understand a particular medical condition.

R2 Digital Library
R2 Digital Library is an eBook platform featuring a comprehensive collection of eBooks for allied health, health informatics, surgical technology, radiologic technology, massage, and nursing. You can create an individual login (top right corner of login page) to save your bookmarks, citations, references, and images.
View this short video on using R2 Digital Library.

Reference Databases

Credo Reference
An excellent place to begin your research on an unfamiliar topic.


Subject Librarian

Kevin Michki, MLS, MA

Contact info
Phone: (716) 827-2533
[email protected]


Regular Spring Semester Library Hours
Monday – Thursday – 8am – 8pm
Friday – 8am – 5pm
CLOSED Saturday – Sunday