Images Resources on the Internet

Copyright and Attribution | General Medical Image Resources | History of Medicine
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• NYU Libraries Handbook for the Use of Copyrighted Materials
  Intended to provide helpful information to members of the NYU community who use copyrighted materials in educational and research activities.
  
  
• Citing Electronic References [APA Style]
  
  
• Citing Electronic Sources [Chicago Manual Style]
  
  
• Citing Electronic Resources [AMA Style]

for more information on citing sources see our publishing toolkit

• CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
  Created by the CDC, PHIL provides an organized and searchable gateway to images from the CDC.
  
  
• Hardin MD: Medical Pictures and Disease Pictures
  Look for the “Pictures of” link on the specific condition pages.
  
  
• HEAL: Health Education Assets Library
  HEAL is a searchable and browsable database of over 36,000 digital images, audio clips and video clips covering the areas of dermatology, ObGyn, neuroanatomy, neurology, pathology, biochemistry, and cardiology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are used to categorize the contributed multimedia items.
  
  
• Health on the Net
  Unique repository of over 6'800 medical images and videos, pertaining to 1,700 topics and themes.
  
  
• Images MD
  Over 45,000 medical images with accompanying text. Searchable or browsable by specialty/collection.
  
  

• Anatomia Universa – Paolo Mascagni
  Scans from the anatomical plates published between 1823 and 1832.
  
  
• History of Medicine Images from the National Library of Medicine
  High resolution reproductions of these images are available by order.
  
  
• Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body
  Engravings from the classic 1918 book scanned and searchable.
  
  
• Wellcome Medical Photographic Library
  Over 160 000 images of the history of medicine from antiquity to the birth and development of modern Western medicine

• Atlas of the Brain
  175 Different sections of the brain. Myelin stained, Weil stained as well as MRIs.
  
  
• Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  All endoscopic photographs from this atlas were taken by DM Martin, MD and RC Lyons, MD at the Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Unit of Tenet South Fulton Medical Center, East Point, Georgia.
  
  
• Atlas of Histology – University of Illinois College of Medicine
  Over 1000 labeled histological features.
  
  
• Atlas of Medical Parasitology
  Divided by type of parasite
  
  
• Big Picture Book of Viruses
  You can find virus images listed by family, virus name, genome type, host and more.
  
  
• Bloodline Atlas
  Over 800 hematological slides depicting various blood disorders and malignancies.
  
  
• Dermatlas
  Dermatology image atlas with over 6500 images.
  
  
• Digital Atlas of Ophthalmology
  Searchable and browsable database of images from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
  
  
• ECG Learning Center
  Each ECG strip image has an interpretation and explanations that help explain the diagnosis.
  
  
• Heart Information – Image Gallery
  
  
• Pediatric Cardiology
  Radiographs, diagrams, echocardiograms and video.
  
  
• Pediatric Dermatology  Atlas
  Browse over 2000 pediatric dermatology images provided by the Dermatology Internet Service from the Universities of Heidelberg and Erlangen.
  
  
• Peir Digital Library – Pathology Education Instructional Resources
  Pathology image database.
  
  
• TumorBoard
  Collection of copyright-free, digital, pathology images.
  
  
• Whole Brain Atlas
  The Atlas is intended as an introduction to basic neuroanatomy, with emphasis on the pathoanatomy of several leading central nervous system diseases.

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• Ehrman Library Logo

• Google Image search
  
  
• AlltheWeb Picture search
  
  
• Webcrawler (choose images)
  
  
• Asociated Press Multimedia Archive
  Photos, audio and graphics, which may be downloaded for educational use. Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo library, and a wide selection of images from their vast negative and print library, dating from the 1840s on.

Snag-It
SnagIt is a program for producing screen captures. This can be useful for presentations or any other kind of work in which you need to show exactly what is on your computer screen. This is installed on all library computers.

Also: See our Photoshop handout with information on making screen screenshots without software

C Cuddy, G Headrick, D Vieira

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