How Do I?> Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

How do I find images to use in my presentations?

Answer

Take advantage of the resources available at the Library and online to add photos, clip art, graphics, and other images to your presentation or website.

Contents

Introduction

The Health Sciences Library makes electronic images available to patrons through several resources. For information about acceptable use of these images in your teaching and presentations, refer to the copyright and license agreements for each individual resource.

Resources

  1. Learning Opportunities at the Library
  2. Library Image Resources
    • MD Consult: A collection of searchable images is available through the library’s subscription to the MD Consult Database. Access MD Consult on Grounds or through proxy by visiting the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library main page, and under the Popular Databases column select MD Consult, then click the Images tab.
      • Note: You must access MD Consult via the Library’s home page to take advantage of features special to our subscription, such as Surgical Images.

    • McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine and Science image collections: McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 50 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device. Visit the Image Index or Image Galleries.
    • The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: The online version of JBJS allows subscribers to download images and graphics as ready-to-use PowerPoint slides. Patrons accessing JBJS from on-Grounds or via Proxy have access to this service. Click on the Full Text link for the article, and click on the image you wish to use. Click on the Get PowerPoint Slide button to download the image.

      The JBJS video archive allows subscribers to view full-length streaming videos.
  3. Free Online Image and Multimedia Resources
    • The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Image Bank: The ASH Image Bank is intended to serve as a comprehensive reference and teaching tool that is widely accessible to physicians and hematology students around the world. The images are presented in a digital, case-based format that allows both the images and text to be searched, cross-referenced, and hyper-linked to other cases as well as other educational resources, including Hematology, the Society's annual meeting Education Program Book, the ASH Teaching Cases and the syllabus from the ASH Self-Assessment Program. In addition to the case studies, the Image Bank includes a collection of basic atlas images.
    • AnatQuest: The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project has produced high resolution (4096 x 2048 x 24 bits) cryosectional color images of human anatomy. AnatQuest, is a database for this image dataset as well as for 3D rendered images of anatomic objects created from cryosectional images (cross-sections or slices)
    • ARTstor Magnum Photos: ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
    • DermIS: This site is a compendium of hundreds of browsable and searchable photographs of skin conditions. Image groups may be accompanied by synonyms for the condition, Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) terms, and a definition. Each image includes an assessment of its quality for teaching and may be accompanied by brief descriptive information.
    • Embeddable Health Information Videos: A current list of sites which allow health videos to be embedded in Web pages is available through medical librarian blogger David Rothman’s blog.
    • Google Images LIFE Photos: Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
    • HONmedia: a free service offered by the Health On the Net Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization. Search a repository of 6,800 medical images and videos which have been indexed to the MeSH medical classification system. All images remain the property of their author. Should you wish to use any picture or animation you see during the search process, directly contact the owner of the material to obtain appropriate permission.
    • National Cancer Institute’s Visuals Online: NCI Visuals Online contains images from the collections of the Office of Communications and Education and Office of Media Relations, National Cancer Institute. Contents include general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and staff of the National Cancer Institute. Visuals Online currently provides public access to 1,948 images.
    • National Library of Medicine: History of Medicine: The Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) database is a catalog of the prints and photographs collection of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The purpose of the database is to assist users in finding illustrative material for private study, scholarship, and research.
    • National Library of Medicine: Medical "Stock Shots": The National Library of Medicine (NLM) maintains a list of resources to find medical "stock shots," videos, photographs slides or images that can be used in publications and presentations. Check the attribution requirements for each source before using. Some of these sources are free, others incur a cost.
    • Wellcome Images: Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science. All our images are available on demand in digital form. Search online or use the expertise of our professional scientific and historical researchers.
  4. Teaching Material Repositories
    • The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL): a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
    • The AAMC MedEdPortal: a new approach to online publication that offers peer review for teaching resources. Examples of MedEdPORTAL publications include referenced tutorials, cases, lab manuals, evaluation forms, faculty development materials, and virtual patients.
    • UVa's Medical Multimedia Database is mainly made up of medical images and quiz questions, but also includes sounds, movies, and teaching cases. Any medical faculty member is welcome to contribute to the database. You may use the resources in this database to produce teaching materials for use within the University of University, you must ask permission of the contributor.
    • BiosciEdNet (BEN) is the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathway for biological sciences education. The BEN Portal provides access to education resources from BEN Collaborators and is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  5. Collections of UVa Images
    • Health System Logos, PowerPoint Templates, and Photos of people and places are available for download from the Health System Marketing Communications Department's website, www.uvabrand.com. This site is available for use by UVa affiliates but is password-protected, click here to access the ID and password (UVa-only; if off-Grounds, login via proxy to access).
    • Desktop Photographs of the University are offered for use as computer wallpaper.
    • The UVa Online Visual History Database is UVa's Special Collections Library's collection of photographs, most of which are related to the University. For Health Sciences images, click on Search and select Health Sciences Library as the source.
    • ITC’s UVa Images is a collection of images of the University Grounds. The images provided in these pages by Information Technology and Communication are for non-commercial use by members of the University of Virginia community only.

Help

For additional information about graphics and multimedia available for use, contact the HSL TEC Team at 924-5521 or hsltec@virginia.edu, or if you are in the Library, Ask Rover.

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