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Copyright & Fair Use

This guide provides information on copyright and fair use for the classroom and publishing.

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Are you looking for images to use in your PowerPoint presentation, lecture, or research paper? There are many resources available that provide images and/or figures for use without needing permission from the author(s). Be sure to read the license information listed at each resource and, as always, credit the author! 

Image source: Jeffrey Beall, Search!, (CC BY-ND 2.0)

 

General Image Resources

Cover Browser: view 450,000+ covers of comics, books & more

everystockphoto: a search engine for free photos; this site requires you to sign-up for a free account to download photos

IconArchive: archive of icons to download with multiple usage options. Be sure to read the license information. 

Internet Archive: a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

Public Domain Photos: 5,000+ images

Stocksnap: provides images that are free to use with no attribution required

​Unsplash: provides images that are entirely free to use however you want, including commercially

Vintage Ad Browser: collection of vintage ads from a variety of sources, including comic books, CD-Roms, websites, APIs, your submissions, book, magazine & comic book scans, and more

Wikimedia Commons: almost 11.5 million images available

Medical Image Resources

Gray's Anatomy plates from Wikimedia Commons

  • Over 1200 images and figures available to download and use under the public domain 

HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)

  • Tens of thousands of images, video clips, animations, presentations, and audio files
  • Browse subject collections for anatomy, histology, dermatology
  • Refine basic search results to limit by resource type, author, sub-collection, or author

History of Medicine

  • 70,000 digitized images from National Library of Medicine collections
  • Visual media includes fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that
  • Images of social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.

National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA):

  • Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC)
  • Reference Image Database to Evaluate Response (RIDER)
  • Breast MRI
  • Lung PET/CT
  • Neuro MRI
  • CT Colongraphy
  • Virtual Colonoscopy
  • Osteoarthritis Initiative
  • PET/CT phantom scan collection

Open-I

  • National Institutes of Health Open Access Biomedical Search Engine
  • Search in basic science, clinical journals, systematic reviews or chest X-rays
  • Limit by medical specialty or article type
  • Search in title, caption or abstract
  • Mouse over image thumbnail to view bottom line summary and source information
  • Click on thumbnail to see record with links to source record and larger image

Public Health Image Library (PHIL)

  • Pictoral information critical to the communication of public health messages is pictorial
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures.
  • Limit to photo, illustration or video