Health Sciences Images and Anatomy Atlases
Health Sciences Librarian
Peter Johnson
he/him/his
Contact:
Mailing Address:
A.R. Dykes Library
2100 W 39th Street,
Mail Stop 1050
Kansas City, KS 66160
A.R. Dykes Library
2100 W 39th Street,
Mail Stop 1050
Kansas City, KS 66160
913-588-5028
Subjects: Medicine, School of Medicine
Free Images
Scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic HeLa cell
Credit: Tom Deerinck
Brain Reward Circuit
Credit: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
Serotonin receptor bound to ergotamine
Credit: NIH 3D Print Exchange, National Institutes of Health
Best Bets for Health Sciences Images
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new windowIn the Advanced Search, select Images. Users have the option to download images directly to PowerPoint.
- ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowAfter creating a ClinicalKey account, click the All drop-down menu and select Multimedia.
- UpToDate This link opens in a new windowAfter searching a topic, on the right side, click on Graphics. Select an image and click on Export to PowerPoint to embed in your presentation.
- NIH Image GallaryMost of these images are freely available and only require attribution.
- MedPixA free open-access 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. Maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
- NCI Visuals OnlineVisuals Online provides a range of photographs and illustrations. Most of the images available in this library are in the public domain.
- PHILBrowse the CDC's extensive collection of images and multimedia files related to public health. Most of the images in the collection are in the public domain and are thus free of any copyright restrictions.
Copyright reminder
Never assume that an online image is freely available for use. Before using any image, please read and abide by each website's terms of use. Also, please follow KUMC Copyright Policy and Guidelines when using images.
