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Medical Image Resources | Non-Medical Image Resources

Copyright Notice: Most of the images on the sites listed below are considered "public domain" and may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some images may be protected by license. We strongly recommend you thoroughly read the disclaimers on each site before use.

U.S. Government Graphics and Photos
National, digital library contains free, high quality digital materials, organized by governmental department.http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
Pics4Learning
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. http://pics.tech4learning.com/


PD Photo
Thousands of high quality royalty free, public domain photos http://pdphoto.org/


Centre for Bioscience, the Higher Education Academy, ImageBank
This resource consists of freely available images contributed by academics, researchers, Learned Societies, industry and individuals with rights cleared for educational purposes. Users are able to search for images based on keywords or browse within a wide range of bioscience subject areas. Images are then ‘downloadable’ along with informative descriptive text provided by the contributor. http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/imagebank/search/about.htm

US Department of Agriculture Research Service Image Gallery
Contains high and low resolution images of animals and plants http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/


Free Foto
The largest Internet collection of free photographs for private, non-commerical use http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp


Free Photo 1
Collection of more than 650 photos for free download
http://www.freephoto1.com/


Stock Photography at Foto Search

Get royalty free non-medical images at http://www.fotosearch.com

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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Image Bank
The NIH Image Bank contains images from the collections of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health. Contents include general biomedical and science-related images, clinicians, computers, patient care-related images, microscopy images, and various exterior images. http://media.nih.gov/imagebank/index.aspx


Yale Digital Commons
Yale Digital Commons - High quality digital images of Yale's vast cultural heritage collections in the public domain openly and freely available.