Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Resources/Useful resources

Finding images
Most images from the internet are copyrighted and should not be used in Wikipedia.

The NIH has an search engine for open images HERE. Use with care as many of the images are NC licensed and therefore not compatible with Wikipedia.

Community members interested in creating images
We also have a few people who are interested in creating images for Wikipedia including:
 * WikiProject Medicine/Requested images
 * User:VHenryArt
 * User:soupvector
 * User:Ian Furst

Non-suitable images

 * Medlineplus : even though it is a US government source, it uses images that may be copyrighted by others.
 * Other sources in the ".gov" domain may use images from istock photos, and such images may not be in the public domain.

Finding sources
Other useful Search Engines include:


 * NHS Evidence: Search portal for health and social care produced by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for NHS England. Includes a one-stop search engine covering a wide range of sources, including the Cochrane Library, British National Formulary, and UK and international guidelines. Much of the content of NHS Evidence is free to view, but access to certain sections (e.g. many full-text journals and the databases AMED, BNI, CINAHL, EMBASE, Health Business Elite, MEDLINE and PsycINFO) requires a NHS Athens username & password – see the NHS Athens eligibility criteria here
 * Prodigy Knowledge http://prodigy.clarity.co.uk (previously known as Clinical Knowledge Summaries - CKS) is aimed at clinicians in primary care. It provides reliable evidence-based information and practical "know how" about the common conditions managed in primary care.
 * EMBASE: A high-quality medical index that often generates better results than PubMed. It is proprietary and requires a paid subscription.
 * CINAHL: A proprietary index focusing on nursing and allied health care. It requires a paid subscription.

Historical documents
Documents published before 1923 are, in most cases, not copyrighted. While many of these documents are outdated, they can still be of great utility in supplementing "History" sections of certain medical articles. Also, historical images can still depict symptoms of diseases, normal anatomy, and other features quite accurately.

Possible sources of useful images and text of historical interest include:
 * Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) and, more generally, the digital collections maintained in the National Library of Medicine: Care must be taken in choosing materials here since most, but not all, content is in the public domain.
 * The Pierre and Marie Curie University has an important digitalized collection of documents useful for writing articles about the history of science (especially French). Its "Charcot collection" specializes in medicine (particularly neurology) and has many valuable images available.
 * The Library of Congress U.S. Historical, Cultural Collections and the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: Both of these sources contain medical and non-medical images and other potentially useful media files. Again, great care must be taken in choosing items to use since not all content is in the public domain.
 * "Images of Surgery" is a resource containing a number of historical images and depictions of surgical procedures across time.