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Images: Library Resources with Images

Learn where to find images for presentations and other educational uses. Advocate Health - Midwest Library resources plus no-cost and low-cost sources are listed.

Overview

Several electronic resources provided by the Advocate Health - Midwest Library contain images that are useful in presentations and other scholarly works. Some even include handy tools to download images directly into PowerPoint slides with citations and copyright statements already included. Those resources' licenses generally cover using images from these resources in works such as educational presentations and research documents. 

AccessMedicine contains tens of thousands of photos and illustrations to aid in visual diagnosis which authorized users can save and download to presentations for educational purposes. Create a MyAccess profile to download multiple images to PowerPoint with citations and references automatically populated.

Anatomy.tv is an interactive multimedia resource including 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more. All their materials can be used for educational/research purposes. The Save panel on the left side of anatomy.tv pages allows you download movies and slides and you can then add them to presentations.

BMJ allows readers to convert illustrations from BMJ articles into PowerPoint slides easily. All the reader needs to do is click the link marked “Download powerpoint.” A PowerPoint slide will be downloaded to the user's computer including an automatically generated citation and copyright attribution.

Images found in ClinicalKey can be added to PowerPoint through the Presentation Maker. Create a personal account to save images from ClinicalKey and add them to your presentations with their Presentation Maker tool.

LWW Health Library OBGYN includes tools to create customized presentations with the ability to save images directly into PowerPoint slides with citation information automatically included.

The Advocate Health - Midwest Library's institutional licensed subscription to NEJM allows authorized users to use PowerPoint slide sets and downloadable images, figures, and videos for presentations and teaching.  NEJM features Images in Clinical Medicine in each issue.