Finding Images Online
Not all images you find online are free to use as you please. If you look for images through Google or another search engine, even those available through Himmelfarb, be sure to check the image use rights. If you want to ensure any images you come across are free to use, the Creative Commons Search only indexes images under Creative Commons licenses.
For more information on image use rights and Creative Commons licenses, check our Images and Copyright page.
Himmelfarb Image Resources
- AccessAnesthesiologyDescription: Images derived from AccessAnesthesiology's collection of full-text anesthesiology texts. Images can be browsed; images can be searched via Advanced Search function.
How to download: Display image and then right-click on icon to save image.
How to cite: Image citation is automatically created and included in image. - AccessEmergencyMedicineDescription: Images derived from AccessEmergencyMedicine's collection of full-text emergency medicine texts. Images can be browsed; images can be searched via Advanced Search function.
How to download: Display image and then right-click on icon to save image.
How to cite: Image citation is automatically created and included in image. - AccessMedicineDescription: Images derived from AccessMedicine's broad collection of textbooks. Images can be browsed; images can be searched via Advanced Search function.
How to download: Display image and then right-click on icon to save image.
How to cite: Image citation is automatically created and included in image. - AccessSurgeryDescription: Images derived from AccessSurgery's collection of full-text surgery texts. Images can be browsed; images can be searched via Advanced Search function.
How to download: Display image and then right-click on icon to save image.
How to cite: Image citation is automatically created and included in image. - ClinicalKeyDescription: Millions of images derived from full-text resources available on ClinicalKey. Search and then limit to Images as Content Type.
How to download: You must be logged into ClinicalKey to download images. Display image and then add to Presentation. Click on 'Presentation' and then select 'Download to Powerpoint'.
How to cite: Image citation is automatically created and included in exported PowerPoint. - LWW Health Library: Medical EducationDescription: Images derived from LWW Health Library's collection of texts. Conduct your search, then limit Media type to "Images."
How to download: Follow the "View In Context" link, and click "Slide (.ppt)" under the image to download.
How to cite: Example:
Figure 14-11 Placenta from mother with malaria [image]. (2020). In Rubin's Pathology: Mechanisms of Human Disease, 8e. Retrieved from LWW Health Library: Medical Education. - MedOne NeurosurgeryDescription: Images, audio, and video from MedOne's Neurosurgery suite. Browse by selecting "Images/Video/Audio," or search for something specific by conducting your search and filtering to "Images/Video/Audio."
How to download: Click on your selected image, then select either "Open print (PDF) view" or "Open PowerPoint" in the upper right corner.
How to cite: Citations are generated in the PDF and PowerPoint slides upon download.
Open Access Image Collections
- Core Ultrasound Clip Bank"Please feel free to link to any and all of these videos for medical education on our site. We ask that you do not host the videos on any other website or platform without explicit and written permission to do so. We work hard to produce this content and website traffic is important to us!"
- Hardin MD Medical GalleryAccessed through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
- HEAL National Digital Library"Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education."
- Image Gallery GatewayImages from the Genomic Science program and other U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) programs. Also includes archived images from the Human Genome Project and Microbial Genomics.
- Images from the History of MedicineImages from the National Library of Medicine.
- MedPixImage database provided by the National Library of Medicine.
- NCI Visuals OnlineImages from the National Cancer Institute.
- NEI Clinical and Translational Imaging Unit Image GalleryImages from the National Eye Institute.
- NIAMS Multimedia Library"The NIAMS Media Library provides images that are free to use with credit. Images are meant for use by the science and health community, the press that covers health and science, teachers and other educators in health and science and non-profit organizations that produce health and science information. They are not intended for commercial use."
- Open-iNational Library of Medicine image library; copyright license type linked below image on the detailed view page.
- Pancreatlas"accessible full-resolution images from a diverse array of human pancreas samples"
- PEIR Digital Library"Pathology Education Informational Resource (PEIR) Digital Library, a multidisciplinary public access image database for use in medical education."
- The POCUS Image AtlasThe Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Atlas is collaborative education platform of free ultrasound education material, including images. All content is free, open access, and peer-reviewed.
- Public Health Image Library (PHIL)Photographs, Illustrations, Multimedia Files provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
- Wellcome ImagesImages from UK's leading teaching hospitals and research institutions.
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