LibGuides UFV: Finding Images: Health Sciences

Our Library Databases

Sometimes it is easy to forget that we have a lot of resources that we can use for educational purposes. You might not have to go on a Google hunt when we have the following resources on our doorstep.

Primal Pictures Interactive Anatomy - Premier Library Package This link opens in a new window
A variety of types of images:MRIs, dissection slides, detailed anatomy, and movies.
CINAHL Complete (EBSCOHost) This link opens in a new window
From the Advanced Search screen, at the bottom right you can limit your results to images.
eBook Collection (EBSCOHost) This link opens in a new window
Search our ebook collection for books on your health image needs. If it is for educational use (your powerpoints or handouts) all you need to do is cite the source and make sure the content is not posted to the open Web. Password protected platforms like BlackBoard are fine.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Search our ebook collection for books on your health image needs. If it is for educational use (your powerpoints or handouts) all you need to do is cite the source and make sure the content is not posted to the open Web. Password protected platforms like BlackBoard are fine.

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Open Educational Resources

Health Education Media Library
The Health Education Media Library is a community-sourced open access repository of medical, dental and health education media assets including images, videos and audio clips. The goal of the project is to provide high quality assets that are representative of a diverse population of both patients and health care providers (emphasizing representation across different ethnicities, genders, ages, body types etc.) and inclusive of stigmatized health care topics. From University of Western Ontario
Anatomy Video and Imagery Diversity Project
AVID is a database of freely available original images and videos that properly showcase the range of human diversity and that are of sufficient detail and quality to support excellent anatomical teaching across multiple disciplines and levels of learner expertise. We aim to better represent the diversity of people in the population by reflecting different genders, people of different skin tones, body sizes, and compositions, and to provide access to resources that are currently severely lacking in higher education. This OER is designed to support learners directly by providing a zero-cost alternative to traditionally expensive anatomical textbooks, and further to provide paid opportunities for students who are historically underrepresented in health sciences and allied health education to develop their own educational leadership and to provide opportunities for visibility and representation for these students in the anatomical sciences. [From Website]
OpenVerse: Creative Commons Search Portal
Search for whichever medical image that you need. Remember to limit the search on the right to CC BY-SA.
Wikimedia Commons
Search for the images you want and remember to limit the licences from the drop down menu to the type you require.
Pxhere
"Free of copyrights under CC0. Do whatever you want."
Unsplash
Unsplash images can be used for free for commercial and noncommercial purposes without permission. Credit is also not required, though it is appreciated if possible.

MedEdPORTAL This link opens in a new window
Some of the appendices have powerpoints with images covered by the Creative Commons licences.

BCcampus Open Textbooks List
To the left are the various subjects. Not all books have images but some do and they may prove useful.