The Institute of Biomedical Science

Guide to images on the web

A guide to website resources for images and multimedia libraries. Some of the sites below provide copyright-free images for non-profit use.

Visions of Science
Visions of Science is a photographic awards scheme organised by Novartis Pharmaceuticals to encourage ongoing discussion about science.

images.MD
images.MD compiles over 50,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts

Science Photo Library
Science Photo Library (SPL) is the provider of science photos covering all aspects of science, health & medicine, space exploration & astronomy, technology & industry, earth science, satellite imagery, and nature & wildlife. A source of some beautiful and technically brilliant scientific imagery that often ends up on the front cover of The Biomedical Scientist.

The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
Popular web resource includes over 1,900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.

Medical Images and Illustrations
Index of links to other pages and sites on the internet offering biomedically related multimedia material and images (photos, illustrations, etc.).

Bristol Biomed Image Archive
A collection of medical, dental and veterinary images for use in teaching

Tumorboard.com
Source of copyright-free digital pathology images. Pathologists around the world can share their cases in this forum.

PEIR (Pathology Education Instructional Resource) Digital Library
Multidisciplinary digital libraries of images and test items, tutorials and resources including a library of over 40,000 images.

Atlas of heamatology
Images of normal cells from blood and marrow to a variety of hematologic diseases

BloodLine Image Atlas
The first instalment of this fully searchable directory features more than 800 haematological slides depicting various blood disorders and malignancies.

Biology Image Library
The Biology Image Library is an online collection of images, movies, illustrations and animations across biology and biomedicine, for use in education and research.

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy
Scientific Photography Through the Microscope: over a thousand microscopy images photographed with electron microscopes. Biological images, medical images and many other images of scientific subjects.

Virtual Library of Science
Links to images, online resources, tutorials and study guides for biosciences, health and medicine, microscopy, genetics and science history.

Cell Biology with Videos and Interactive Media
Media library with collection of digital videos and interactive media for teaching and learning

Dermatology Image Atlas
Images and links for dermatology

Parasite Image Library
Parasites and parasitic diseases are listed alphabetically and are cross-referenced.

History of Medicine
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.

Art of science
Stunning images of art meeting science.

Atlas of Histology
The COM-UIUC Atlas of Histology contains over 1000, labeled, histological images with accompanying functional descriptions.

Feldman's GastroAtlas Online
Online collection of gastroenterology images with clinical, radiographic, pathologic and histologic images.

An artist's view inside a laboratory
Over a ten-month period artist Pauline Pratt developed images aimed at relating the experiences to a non-scientist.
See also: In pictures: The Laboratory

General image websites

Getty Images
One of the biggest commerical collection of resources for searching, purchasing and downloading royalty-free and rights-managed images, film and digital services. Excellent for finding an image on just about any subject.

Free images
More than 2,500 original stock photos available for free.
(see also: www.freeimages.com)

Corbis Images
Commerical collection of images in news, editorial and entertainment.

Foto Search Image Library
Foto Search Image Library offers over 1 million images in its extensive online archive, including photography, clipart, illustrations, footage, and maps. It also offers users the opportunity to view world-class photography and art free of charge.