LibGuides: ProDev-5wk Professional Development: Multimedia Resources

Audiovisual Resources

Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides access to a large number of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.
Gale Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning. Researchers are able to find accurate information and articles in both PDF and HTML formats with ease. This resource provides extensive coverage in key subject areas, such as biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology. Academic OneFile is strongly focused on the undergraduate researcher. Unique among competitors, this resource allows users to browse by discipline from the home page and contains peer-reviewed scholarly journal content indexed in Google Scholar.
Gale Directory Library
Gale is the trusted source for authoritative directories on companies, publishers, associations and more. These directories are now available online in the Gale Directory Library. This online resource takes these references off the shelf and makes them available at the click of a mouse 24/7.
Gale General OneFile
Our largest general-interest periodical resource with over 14,000 titles, General OneFile allows researchers to find the information they want quickly. With intuitive searching that mirrors Internet searches, users can easily tap into sources that are guaranteed for quality.
Gale Health and Wellness
Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Integrates millions of articles from nursing and allied health journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and consumer health information sources.
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
Library & Information Resources Network LIRN
A federated search solution by searching multiple databases from different vendors for Library Resources and Service in one centralized location.
MedlinePlus
This resource provides reliable consumer health information directly from the National Institutes of Health. Medline Plus is easy to navigate, and its articles are written in non-technical language. Now accessing Medline is even easier with its new mobile app!
Merck Manuals Professional Edition
The Merck Manuals Professional Edition offers trusted, concise and correct discussions of diagnosis and therapy. Content is updated monthly to keep current with changes in medical care.
Merck Veterinary Manual
MVM online, created and updated periodically by Merck, provides information on the health problems affecting animals, addressing the range of diseases, disorders, management issues, and other concerns faced by animal health professionals. In addition to text, figures, images, and multimedia content, it includes news, case studies and quiz sections as well as clinical calculators and topics for pet owners
PUBMed
PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Infobase Films on Demand
Films On Demand‘s platform provides users with the content, tools, speed, and performance that today’s online experience demands. At Films On Demand, we know that content matters. Our video library has been assembled not just with a focus on volume, but also with a discerning eye for quality and relevance. It is the result of decades of careful curating with a single guiding principle: providing every academic department on campus with the most essential video titles for their field of study. Plus, Films On Demand titles have won numerous awards, including Peabody, CLIO, Telly, Emmy®, CINE Golden Eagle Award, Video Librarian Best Documentary, FREDDIE Award, and many more!

General Image Resources

Creative Commons
Offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link.
Flickr Creative Commons
Flickr's Creative Commons portal. Browse by license type or choose "Advanced Search" to limit to Creative Commons content.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Provides access to about one million digital images within the collection of the Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division. Includes architectural and historical images.
morgueFile
The morguefile contains high resolution photographs freely contributed by many artists. To acknowledge the artist's accomplishments, they ask that you credit the photographer when possible.

NIDDK Image Library
Searchable database of original illustrations produced by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Illustrations are free, but use must be credited to NIDDK.

NIMH Image Bank
Images from the National Institutes of Mental Health collections. Available for use in the public domain, with credit to NIMH.
Pixabay
A repository for public domain pictures that includes free vectors, free drawings and free photos. You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author.
Science.gov
elect "Multimedia - Multimedia sources" on the advanced search page to search videos and photographs from U.S. government sources such as Library of Congress, MedlinePLUS, NASA, NOAA, and NSF.
Wellcome Collection Images
Historical and contemporary digital images from the Wellcome Library, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science. Images are free for academic use.
Wikimedia Commons:
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. Search Wikimedia Commons to find Biology related content.
Wikipedia List of Public-Domain Image Resources
Extensive list of sources for public-domain images on the Web.
WorldImages
Approximately 80,000 primarily historical images organized into categories including Women, Science, Cities, Natural World, Science, and more. Free to use for educational purposes, with credit given.

Human Anatomy/Physiology Image Resources

The Merck Manual Home Health Handbook
Like the charts you see in the doctor's office, this collection offers a head-to-toe look at structures. Definitely more for lay person.
Historical Anatomies on the Web
Anatomical atlases from the National Library of Medicine collection. Images are free to use, with credit to NLM.
Allen Brain Atlas
Multimodal brain atlases free for research or educational use.
Gray's Anatomy
Biography on Henry Gray with links to the book.
Anatomy Atlases (tm)
This digital library of anatomy information is curated by Ronald Bergman, PhD. There are a number of textbooks and atlases at this site, as well as a list of related digital libraries that could prove helpful.
Anatomical Plates
This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Each illustration has been fully indexed using medical subject headings (MeSH), and techniques of illustration, artists, and engravers have been identified whenever possible. There are ninety-five individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867. The images in the online collection are derived from works in the public domain. The images may be used for the purposes of research, private study, or general interest.