Faculty and Staff: Using Images, Tables, Videos, and More

Many of the library's subscription resources offer content that supplements textbooks. You can find images, tables, video, audio, animations and more. Learn what each resource offers and methods for capturing the content.

Many of the resources provide citation information automatically in the .ppt slide or .pdf document. For those that don't, remember to cite your source! (Need to look up how to cite a resource? Click here to access the AMA Manual of Style Online.)

AccessMedicine

• Personal Login – not required for downloading content (but provides a higher level of functionality)
• Images – .ppt download
• Tables – .pdf download
• Videos/Audio – copy link (like you do for books); download or embed into .ppt not available
• Citation Example Podclass: Weiner C., Handy C. Access Medicine. Episode 21: A 72-Year-Old with an Elevated Gamma Gap. Accessed May 21, 2020. https://accessmedicine-mhmedical-com.ache.idm.oclc.org.
• Refer to the AMA Manual of Style 11^th ed. to verify citation formatting appropriate to your work.

ClinicalKey

• Personal Login – necessary for downloading content
• Images – .ppt download
• Tables – copy link (like you do for books); screen capture permitted but you must cite the source
• Videos – copy link (like you do for books); download or embed into .ppt not available

LWW Health Library Collections

• Personal Login – not required for downloading content (but provides more functionality)
• Images – .ppt download
• Tables – screen capture only method available; use is permitted but you must cite the source
• Videos – copy link (like you do for books); download or embed into .ppt not available
• Citation example: Lieberman M, Peet A. Properties of the Common Amino Acids [table 6.1]. Amino acids in protein. In: Mark's Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer; 2023. https://premiumbasicsciences.lwwhealthlibrary.com/book.aspx?bookid=3220. Accessed November 21, 2023.
• Refer to the AMA Manual of Style 11^th ed. to verify citation formatting appropriate to your work.

NEJM

• Personal Login – not required for downloading content (but provides more functionality)
• Images – .ppt download
• Tables - .ppt download
• Videos - .mp4 download, embed into .ppt
• Citation example: 

  Bhatt DL, Steg PG, Miller M, et al. Cardiovascular Risk Reduction with Icosapent Ethyl for Hypertriglyceridemia. The New England journal of medicine. 2019;380(1):11-22. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1812792.

  Basic format for styling references to journal supplements:

  Bhatt DL, Steg PG, Miller M, et al. Cardiovascular Risk Reduction with Icosapent Ethyl for Hypertriglyceridemia. The New England journal of medicine. 2019;380(1)(Suppl 2):11-22. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1812792.

  Refer to the AMA Manual of Style 11^th ed. to verify citation formatting appropriate to your work.

Thieme MedOne Education

• Personal Login – not required for downloading content
• Images – .ppt download
• Tables – screen capture only method available; use is permitted but you must cite the source
• Videos – copy link (like you do for books); download or embed into .ppt not available
• Citation example: Accompanying Videos. In: Boehmeke T, Doliva R, ed. Pocket Atlas of Echocardiography. 2nd Edition. Thieme; 2017. https://medone-education.thieme.com/media#/2117867/ebook_2117867_SL81086455/vi2117836. Accessed November 21, 2018.
• Refer to the AMA Manual of Style 11^th ed. to verify citation formatting appropriate to your work.

CDC Public Health Image Library

The PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. The PHIL welcomes public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages.

MedPix

MedPix^® is a free open-access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, integrating images and textual metadata including over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images.

Open-i Biomedical Image Search Engine

A service of the National Library of Medicine that provides access to over 1.6 million images (including charts, graphs, clinical images, etc.) from about 580,000 PubMedCentral articles and 7,470 chest x-rays with 3,955 radiology reports. Check image license details before reusing an image.

PEIR Digital Library

A multidisciplinary public access image database for use in medical education. Contains images from the PEIR Pathology, Radiology, and Slice databases. The images in this library are © University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Pathology.

Wellcome Collection

Find thousands of freely licensed digital books, artworks, photos and images of historical library materials and museum objects relating to health.