Research guides: Pharmacy : Images

Image Sources

Looking for images you can use in your presentations and coursework without having to ask for permission to re-use them?

Here are some useful websites which contain images in the public domain or have CC (Creative Commons) licenses attributed to them:

Flickr - Creative Commons Photo Collection
Wikimedia Commons
Pixabay
Free photos, illustrations, vector graphics, videos. 480,000 images/photos.
Pexels
Free high-resolution photos
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Searchable collection of photos, illustrations, and videos covering the following topics: cells, chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, genes, injury and illness, molecular structures and tools and techniques.
Anatomy illustrations
250+ anatomy illustrations created by anatomy instructor, Alice Roberts.
National Library of Medicine
Find images from the history of medicine
MedPix
Free online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, integrating images and textual metadata including over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images. Our primary target audience includes physicians and nurses, allied health professionals, medical students, nursing students and others interested in medical knowledge.
MorgueFile
Free photo archive. 300,000 photos.
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute - Laboratory of Brain Anatomical MRI
Smithsonian Open Access Image Collection
Access to more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items from their collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
Collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.

Reminder:

Even though you do not need to seek permission to use them, any CC-licensed images you use from the above resources should be referenced in your presentations and coursework. You can cite these images the same way you would cite a website.

Questions?

Contact your pharmacy librarian, Caitlin Carter, at c8carter@uwaterloo.ca

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