How do I find biomedical images, UVa logos, and other graphics?

Answer:

Take advantage of the resources available through the Health Sciences Library and online to add photos, clip art, graphics, and other images to your presentation or website. For information about acceptable use of these images in your teaching and presentations, refer to the copyright and license agreements for each individual resource.

Step by Step:

UVa Images and Logos
- 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).
- University of Virginia Logos
- 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.
Subscription-based Image Resources
- AccessMedicine image collections: AccessMedicine provides online access to 50 medical book titles. Use the links below to access the thousands of images and illustrations included with our subscription.
- AccessScience Image Galleries : AccessScience provides links to hundreds of images and illustrations in all areas of science.
- AccessSurgery image collections: AccessSurgery provides online access to surgery books and videos. Use the link above to access the images and multimedia included with our subscription.
- MD Consult Images: A collection of searchable images is available through the library’s subscription to the MD Consult Database.
- Netter Images: A collection of Netter anatomy books are available via the library's MD Consult subscription. Titles include Netter’s Clinical Anatomy, Netter's Cardiology, Netter's Neurology, Netter's Obstetrics and Gynecology, and several Netter's Orthopaedic titles. Access the Netter titles by visiting the library's Selected E-Book list for Anatomy & Physiology.
- Ebsco Consumer Health Complete: Click on the Images & Diagrams link to get basic medical images of anatomy and physiology and diagnostics and surgical procedures. Use the Videos & Animations link to find health/wellness, lifestyle and condition-specific news clips with an average length of 1.5 minutes. Clips can be downloaded.
Free Online Image and Multimedia Resources
- The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Image Bank: The ASH Image Bank is an extensive online library of screen-sized blood disease images and cases for educational use.
- 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.
- ARTstor: The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
- CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL): The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) provides photographs, illustrations, and multimedia files. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science.
- DermIS: DermIS.net is the largest dermatology information service available on the internet. It offers elaborate image atlases (DOIA and PeDOIA) complete with diagnoses and differential diagnoses, case reports and additional information on almost all skin diseases
- 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: HONMedia is a repository of over 6,800 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,700 topics and themes.
- National Cancer Institute’s Visuals Online: NCI Visuals Online contains over 2,600 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.
- 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 are provided by the UK's Wellcome Trust, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science. The Biomedical Collection holds over 40 000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. Selected from the UK's leading teaching hospitals and research institutions, it covers disease, surgery, general healthcare, sciences from genetics to neuroscience including the full range of imaging techniques.
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).
Learning Opportunities at the Library
- Scan images in the Health Sciences Library computer lab.
- Request an individual consultation to learn the basics of scanning your own images.

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