Useful guide to choosing the right images for STEMM
Cochrane Choosing Images for sharing evidence guide. Useful tips on accessibility, file types and resolution and selecting the right image. Although created for Medicine and allied health, the principles and examples are useful for all disciplines.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine
American Academy of Pediatrics and SELF Magazine (Positive images of adults and children being immunized. Images are available for download and use in print, broadcast or online publications or to share on social media. The copyright owner and licence conditions are unclear, but the credit or caption must be: "Heather Hazzan, SELF Magazine.")
Biodiversity Heritage Library (Non-Commercial, Attribution required. Biodiversity Heritage Library on Flickr. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons”.)
Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection (Non-commercial use with Attribution. Currently, there are 14 collections of images: Plant Geography, Plant Morphology, Phloem Development, Xylem Development, Floral Ontogeny, Lichens, Economic Botany, Carnivorous Plants, Organography, Pollen, Palaeobotany, Plant Defence Mechanisms, Plant Anatomy, and Cellular Communication Channels.)
Botany Database (Non-commercial use with Attribution. The Botany Database is designed to provide students access to images and salient information about plants, particularly plant species that are discussed during Biology lectures and laboratory sessions at Bowdoin and Bates Colleges.)
CSIRO Science Image (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Science Image is an image library specialising in science and nature images. It is presented by CSIRO, Australia's major science research organisation.)
Earth Science World: Image Bank (Non-Commercial use including educational and public. The Earth Science World Image Bank is a service provided by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). This Image Bank is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.)
Encyclopedia of Life (Content may be linked to, for other uses see items Creative Commons Licence. Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice.)
Hubble Site: Gallery (NASA) (Public Domain unless otherwise stated. Capture the extraordinary. Explore the universe through Hubble's eye, and witness the most dangerous, spectacular and mysterious depths of the cosmos.)
Immunization images from the American Academy of Pediatrics and SELF Magazine (Positive images of adults and children being immunized. Images are available for download and use in print, broadcast or online publications or to share on social media. The copyright owner and licence conditions are unclear, but the credit or caption must be: "Heather Hazzan, SELF Magazine.")
Invasive Species (Public Domain, attribution required. Provides general resources to image galleries for invasive species.)
NASA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Photo journal (Public Domain with Attribution unless indicated otherwise. The Photo journal is your interface to the Planetary Image Archive (PIA) contained within the Planetary Data System Imaging Node.)
NASA on The Commons (Public Domain unless otherwise stated. All photographs on the NASAcommons Flickr account originate from the compilation of archives at NASA Images.)
NASA: Visible Earth (Public Domain unless indicated otherwise. A catalogue or NASA images and animations of our home planet.)
National Institute of Mental Health library (Non-Commercial use with Attribution. The NIMH Image Library is a searchable database of photographs and illustrations that are available, copyright free, to the public at no cost. The Library contains images of general biomedical research and research tools, mental health specific research, and treatment related images. Many images are available in low, medium, and high resolutions.)
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Image Collections (Public Domain unless indicated otherwise. Must be attributed. The NOAA collection spans centuries of time and much of the natural world from the centre of the Earth to the surface of the Sun.)
Official SpaceX Photos (Flickr) (Concept art and photos from SpaceX missions. Non-commercial use, attribution to SpaceX is required. See the terms attached to each photo for more information.)
OPENPediatrics: Animation & Illustration Gallery (Public Domain unless indicated otherwise. Welcome to the OPENPediatrics Animation and Illustration Gallery. As we produce the many videos for our clinician community site, our talented team of medical illustrators creates hundreds of images and animations to highlight key concepts. OPENPediatrics shares some of these animations and illustrations here so medical educators and clinicians can download them for use in presentations and instructional materials.)
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (Open access with Attribution. Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) is Pennsylvania's official public access geospatial information clearinghouse. PASDA was developed in 1996 by the Pennsylvania State University and has served as the clearinghouse for Pennsylvania for over twenty years.)
PhET: Free online physics, biology, earth sciences, maths simulations (Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY). University of Colorado Boulder interactive simulation generator. The website states: PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Image Gallery (Non-Commercial purposes Attribution required. This page leads to collections of photos and other images associated with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.)
Smithsonian (Public Domain) Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images - right now, without asking.
United States Department of Argiculture: Image Gallery (Public Domain unless indicated otherwise. This Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high-quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.)
World Obesity Image Bank - Combating weight bias in the media. Positive images of people who have a range of body sizes. (Images are free to use but must credit the World Obesity Federation upon use and Agree to the Terms of Use.)