Health & Life Sciences Image Resources

Over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education housed at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library. Items are licensed under various Creative Commons licenses, and links to license types explain any usage restrictions that apply to specific images.

The MedEdPORTAL is a free collection of teaching resources provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Publications have undergone a rigorous peer review process, and a (free) AAMC account is required to view materials. Items are licensed under various Creative Commons licenses, and links to license types explain any usage restrictions that apply.

Contains over 2000 photos, diagrams, and drawings that span everything from biomedical, science, and patient-care images to portraits of historical figures at the National Cancer Institute. A majority of the images are in the public domain, although some are protected by copyright. Those in the public domain can be copied, adapted, and distributed as needed, but those with copyright require permission from the rights owner to use.

Open source search engine form the NIH with creative commons licensed images for use in curricula and presentations.

Wikimedia Commons has thousands of images. Some are public domain and others use a variety of different creative commons licenses. Pay close attention to the "Summary" table below the image - this will give you information about the image's date, author, title, and permissions.

Collection of approximately 70,000 portraits, photographs, caricatures, posters, illustrations, and other images on the social and historical aspects of medicine from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) History of Medicine Divsion's historical collections. Contains a mix of images that are in the public domain and those that are protected by copyright and require permission for use from the rights owner. Usage information and restrictions are included in the media information box to the left of an image.

Collection of images and illustrations on a wide variety of topics available from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Items are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Materials may be adapted and shared, but must be attributed in the way specified by the author of the work.

Photographs, illustrations, and multimedia files on public health topics. Most (but not all) of the images are in the public domain and are free of copyright restrictions. Some images are copyright protected and require permission from the rights holder to use, as specified in the usage statement below an image.

While the site is no longer updated daily, the archives contain over 500 radiological images with brief descriptions. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Materials may be adapted and shared, but must be attributed in the way specified by the author.

Repository of quality, useful trauma images available from Trauma.org. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Materials may be adapted and shared, but must be attributed in the way specified by Trauma.org.

With a focus on diverse patient and provider representation, this multimedia library is a collection of free, downloadable animations and illustrations that can be used for educational purposes, including presentations, posters, diagrams and more!

All animations and illustrations are distributed under a Creative Commons license which allows you to use the images for your own work as long as you provide credit to the author, and do not alter the images or use them for a commercial purpose.

Collection of images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, cell types, and cellular processes. Images in the database have a variety of licenses - some in the public domain, some with Creative Commons licenses, and some copyright protected - so pay careful attention to what the license of a specific image allows or if permission is required for use.

When citing images originally published in The Cell, please use the following format: Brandner, D. and Withers, G. The Cell: An Image Library, CIL: . Available at http://www.cellimagelibrary.org. Accessed on date.

When citing images previously published in a journal, cite the journal article according to the publisher's style.

A peer-reviewed, digital media center for microbiology sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology. Material is at an undergraduate level and is peer-reviewed for scientific accuracy, instructional value, and visual and/or audio clarity. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license. Materials may be adapted and shared, and any new versions of the images must be shared with the same CC license.

Please use the following citation format for images: Author's last name, first name and co-author's first initial, last name. Publication date. Title of work. Collection Name. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC. www.microbelibrary.org Date of access.

Images of parasites and parasitic diseases available from the CDC. Most images are in the public domain and have no restrictions on use. Exceptions that require permission from the rights holder to use are the lifecycle images of Blastocycstis and Pneumocystis, and the electron micrograph images of Gnathostoma.

Contains over 930 gross and microscopic images of pathology specimens. Images are under a Creative Commons Attributions (CC-BY) license and users are free to copy, adapt, and distribute images as needed.

Please use the following citation format for images: © Year, Ed Uthman, MD, Flickr, used under a CC BY. Retrieved from website URL on date

The Inclusive Skin Color Project is a joint effort between the School of Medicine's Anti-Oppression Curriculum (AOC) Initiative, the UCSF Library, and the Department of Dermatology to improve the discoverability of resources that represent the full spectrum of skin color. It includes links to many open access dermatology image resources.

Collection of 352 public domain images, mostly dermatological, available from the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa. Users are free to copy, adapt, and distribute the images as needed. Other collections available on the site have copyright restrictions, so be sure to stay within the public domain collection.