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Elementary School Graphics

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page First do a search. If you find an image that you can use, click on it. You will be taken to a new page with the image source and copyright information.
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm
http://www.openclipart.org/
http://www.fws.gov/r9extaff/drawings/drawing.html
http://pdphoto.org/
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
Flickr.com Much of the content is licensed under a Creative Commons license, and can be used freely with attribution. On Flickr you can even search for specifically CC-licensed photos, and there is some fantastic stuff there.
http://www.yotophoto.com

Anatomy

Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray at Bartleby.com. Images from the 1918 edition of the book (which is in the Public Domain) appear on the site. The on-line edition of the book is (c) 2000 by Bartleby.com. Please check the web site for the terms of use. http://www.bartleby.com/br/107.html.
Bristol BioMed Learning and Teaching Resource - Note: This site is temporarily closed to free access. Photographs, images and more. 8,500 images in medical, dental and veterinary topics. Images can be used for teaching and learning purposes. Uses the MeSH catalog system (See Reference section.) Thumbnail images can be download without registration, while full size images require registration. http://www.brisbio.ac.uk or http://www.brisbio.ac.uk/bblt.
U.S. National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) - Introduction to the Human Body - Anatomical Terminology Tutorial provides basic explanations of the words, concepts, planes of the body and body cavities. This project was created by Emery University under contract to SEER. http://training.seer.cancer.gov/module_anatomy/unit1_3_terminology.html.

Biology

Enzyme, Metabolic and Signaling Pathways Databases - small page that links to a variety of resources and other pathway databases. http://bip.weizmann.ac.il/.
Molecular Biology of The Cell - Complete textbook at the National Center for Biotechnology Information web site - (c) 1994 by Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and James D. Watson. Published by Garland Publishing, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. You may read and review for personal and educational use but you cannot use any text without permission of publisher. National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=cell.TOC&depth=2.
Paul N. Hegen information site about Molecular Biology.
http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~pnh.
World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources - http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/index.html.

Chemistry

Chemistry Clip Art - http://www.neis.com/chemnames/C/chemistry_clipart.asp.
LMC Chemical Information Services - meta page of links to chemical structures databases, SMILES translators and related topics. http://cactus.nci.nih.gov.
Medicinal Chemistry - http://pages.pomona.edu/~wsteinmetz/OrgChem.htm.
Online GIF/PNG-Creator for 2D Plots of Chemical Structures - Free converter of formulas into gif or png format. You may use the images for educational/non-profit use. A link or small footnote is required to link back to the image site. http://www2.ccc.uni-erlangen.de/services/gifcreator/gif_intro.html. You cannot use these images for commercial purposes without contacting the authors.

Imaging, Illustration, and Clip Art

Bristol BioMed Learning and Teaching Resource - Photographs, images and more. You can download thumbnail images without registration or full size images with registration. http://www.brisbio.ac.uk/bblt or http://www.brisbio.ac.uk.
D. Clunie Medical Image FAQ http://dclunie.com/medical-image-faq/html/part8.html.
Protein Explorer - free software for Windows and Macintosh users to view macromolecular structures and relation to functions. http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/index.html.
RasMol - older free version of Protein Explorer. More difficult to use but will work on older machines. http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/index.html.

Parsitology

Atlas of Medical Parasitology - An ongoing project started by the Carlo Denegri Foundation and others in Italy. Contributors to the atlas make voluntary submissions to the goal of creating an atlas of human tropical parasites for teaching purposes. Many parasitology images. http://www.cdfound.to.it/html/atlas.htm#atlas.
Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Medicine - University in Thailand. Images can be used for educational purposes only. Images are .jpg files, scanned from 35 mm color slides. Check here for images and use terms: http://www.medicine.cmu.ac.th/dept/parasite/image.htm.
Centers for Disease Control - Division of Parasitic Diseases. Government maintained website with free images. Even some short video clips. Images focus on threats to public health. http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx/HTML/Image_Library.htm.
TDR Image Library - Over 13,000 images specifically for Tropical Diseases. Founded in 1975, its sponsors include WHO, UNDP and UNICEF. Features global studies of tropical disease. Images are available for educational use, yet each one must be accompanied by a source credit.
http://www.who.int/tdr/media/image.html.
Ohio State University - Parasites and parasitological resources maintained by the Ohio State University's College of Biological Sciences. Most of these images are copyrighted, but their use is acceptable for teaching purposes. http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/home.html.

Reference

National Library of Medicine - Government information at NLM Web sites is in the public domain. (However they may contract with other information providers, a (c) symbol indicates that it is a protected work) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nlmhome.html.
PubMed contains thousands of citations of biomedical issues. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi.
PubMed Tutorial - Online tutorial to help you teach you how to extract information from the NLH database system. Requires user to have Flash animation plug-in. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Browser is a vocabulary assistant in locating the correct terms used or related concepts. It does not find records per se. It finds the language and related terms used in the PubMed database. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Tutorial http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1009.html.
Centers for Disease Control - A government maintained site. Almost all of the images are in the public domain (images are all labeled as public domain or copyrighted). http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp.
National Institutes of Health - Another government site of public domain images.
http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm

Histology Graphics

Blue Histology - Website of the School of Anatomy and Human Biology - The University of Western Australia. Large searchable index of histology images. Source credit will be given in our image credit section linked to from our About Us section. http://www.lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/mb140/

Graphics Software

Chem Sketch - Freeware chemical drawing and graphics software. Draw molecules, ions, stereo bonds, text, polygons, arrows, etc. http://www.acdlabs.com/download/chemsk.html.
Isis Draw - Freeware that allows you to draw chemical structures. Requires registration. http://www.mdli.com/products/framework/isis_draw/index.jsp.
Irfanview - Freeware image viewer able to handle over 80+ image formats and light image editing features. http://www.irfanview.com/.
Protein Explorer - free software for Windows and Macintosh users to view macromolecular structures and relation to functions. http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/index.html.
RasMol - older free version of Protein Explorer. More difficult to use but will work on older machines. http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/index.html.
Smart Draw is a commercial graphic software that helps to visualize ideas and concepts. With an added medical images module you can create anatomical sets. You can download a 30-day trial version at http://www.smartdraw.com.

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