Image Resources for Teaching and Presenting  Tags: images pictures biomedical_illustration  

Searchable databases of image files and simulations for download and use.

Biology Image Library (BioMed Central)

The library is a collection of images, illustrations, movies and animations that are useful for research and education. It is also a new, easy way to share your work with others without losing any rights to it or limiting how you use it in the future..

Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching materials of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) (National Library of Medicine)

This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

MedEdPORTAL(AAMC)

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) developed MedEdPORTAL as a free publishing venue and dissemination portal to support educators and learners as they create and use on-line teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty developmnent resources.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. This link is to the Health Sciences Portal page.

NIH Photo Galleries (National Institutes of Health)

The NIH Photo Galleries provide photos and illustrations from many organizations under the NIH umbrella. There is a searchable image bank as well.

Compilations of links from a variety of sources on the web that contain images.

Hardin MD Medical Pictures/Disease Pictures (University of Iowa)

Picture Link Pages have all links to pictures. Picture-enhanced directory pages are existing Hardin MD pages with links to pictures added to the existing links to directory pages. See also Hardin MD : Medical Symptoms .

Public Health Image Library (PHIL) (Centers for Disease Control)

PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.

American Memory (Library of Congress)

American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library.

Associated Press Photo Archive (courtesy of iConn.org)

The Photo Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. We have a limited number of simultaneous users, so please be sure to use the logout link when exiting.

Google Image Search

Google claims that its Image Search is the most comprehensive on the Web, with billions of images indexed and available for viewing. The Advanced Image Search function allows you to customize your search and to limit your retrieval by such things as image size, coloration or format. You can also choose to return images from a particular domain, e.g., .edu or .org.