FAQ: Medical Images, Photographs and Videos

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Use these NLM resources to find medical videos, photographs, slides or images:

• List of medical stock images and footage sources
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/stockshot.html
  
  
• Images from the History of Medicine database
  http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov
  
  
• Visible Human Project (VHP)
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/visible_human.html
  
  

Search the NLM Catalogs for items:

• NLM Catalog: start here to find books, journals and audiovisuals
  
• LocatorPlus: for holdings and item availability

The Interlibrary Loan Fact Sheet explains how to borrow items from NLM's audiovisual collection
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/ill.html

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have a Public Health Image Library (PHIL) with images of people, places, and science.

Image libraries are also available at the U.S. Government Photos and Graphics image collection on USA.gov http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml.

The U.S. Census Bureau Broadcast & Photo Services also has photos.

Return to the list of FAQs
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/images.html

Last reviewed: 09 May 2008
Last updated: 09 May 2008
First published: 01 January 1998
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