Images for Presentations
How to find, use and cite images in PowerPoint and other presentation platforms.
Locating Biomedical Images
The links below are an assortment of online resources for medical images, most are royalty & copyright free. Please see the information under the "Citing Images" tab if copyright status is unknown, or to assist with crediting the source of the image .
- AccessMedicineSearch images from texts, most available as .png or .ppt.
To search for images, select "Advanced Search", then "Images" in the gray toolbar below the search box. - CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL)Most of the images in the collection are in the public domain and are thus free of any copyright restrictions. Permission is not required for public domain images, but we do ask that you credit the original institution and contributor, when known, whenever the image is used in any publicly distributed media. Images that require permission for use will be noted.
- Cell Image LibraryPublic repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, demonstrating cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes
- Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)Search database for images, video clips, animations, presentations, and audio files. Creative Commons Licenses apply.
- National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Visuals OnlineMost of the images available in this library are in the public domain and are not subject to copyright restrictions. Please acknowledge NCI as the originator and the NCI Web site (www.cancer.gov) as the source and/or the image creator. For those images that are copyright protected, instructions for obtaining permission for use are provided.
- NIH/NLM: Open Access Biomedical Image Search EngineFrom the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Open-i is a search engine for locating freely available biomedical images and selected text from the medical literature. Images are royalty and copyright free.
- NIH: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)Includes a variety of formats, including photos, illustrations, posters, and paintings. Images are from multiple sources with various copyright policies.
- NIH: Medical Stock Sources: Images, Photographs, Videos, Animations, and Film FootageA collection of resources for biomedical images. Most US government images and graphics are in the public domain, but there are links to other images sources that are not. Please read the disclaimers on each site before use.
- U.S National Library of Medicine: Digital CollectionsFree online resource of biomedical books and still and moving images, with more than 70,000 historical images, from the Middle Ages to the present. Royalty and copyright free.
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