SpringerImages - a new image bank

SpringerImages has replaced ImagesMD but it includes much more than clinical images and now you can access it with your UniKey.

The massive collection of 1.6 million scientific, technological, and medical images includes photos, tables and figures, charts, graphs, histograms, and other illustrations. Although covering all scientific subject areas, some 61% of the collection focuses on medical and life sciences. Subscribers can use the material liberally as long as they do not use it for direct commercial purposes. SpringerImages also includes a small but growing collection of open access images, which are available to anyone, no registration required.

3D Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry

Our request for a subscription to this exciting new resource on anatomy.tv has been successful. From today 3D Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry can be accessed 24/7 from anywhere. If you are off-campus login remotely with your UniKey. Or login with your name and barcode if you are a honorary academic/clinical tutor. For a true 3D view you need to install a special media player on your computer.

Google Images Creative Commons search

Google has just added a Creative Commons filter to its Image Search, see the Official Google Blog .

To use this feature go to Google Advanced Image Search and look for the Usage Rights filters. Of course, as always, you will need to make an evaluation about whether the image is in fact Creative Commons. Nevertheless, for those who want to adopt good practice in image re-use, this is a very helpful development.

You have never seen dental anatomy & occlusion like this before

Electronic atlas of human occlusion & the TMJ /produced by eHuman Digital Anatomy, Brown & Herbranson Imaging in association with Loma Linda University. [Portula Valley, CA] : Brown & Herbranson c2008.

Please note: Due to licence restrictions this DVD atlas can only be accessed in the Dentistry Library at SDH.

"This state-of-the-art TMJ/Occlusion Atlas is a ground-breaking resource combining high-quality computer models of the temporomandibular joint with 3-D interactive models and movies of mandibular movement and occlusal relationships. Detailed anatomy of the TMJ along with its unique features, muscles of mastication, ligaments, innervation and blood supply are displayed in animations based on real anatomy and in dissection images with annotations. Anatomically precise illustrations are displayed with the state-of-the-art viewing and interaction protocols. The Atlas also includes a number of review and self-assessment modules for students."

(Source: http://www.ehuman.com/products/tmj-occlusion-atlas, accessed on 21/08/09)

SpringerImages

After a year and a half of planning and development, Springer Science+Business Media, an international scholarly publisher based in Germany has launched SpringerImages.

The massive collection of 1.6 million scientific, technological, and medical images includes photos, tables and figures, charts, graphs, histograms, and other illustrations. Although covering all scientific subject areas, some 61% of the collection focuses on medical and life sciences. Drawing on its own vast collection of content, Springer provides multilayered, in-depth indexing. Subscribers can use the material liberally as long as they do not use it for direct commercial purposes.

SpringerImages includes a small but growing collection of open access images, which are available to anyone, no registration required.

Source: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Springer-Launches-Innovative-PublisherBased-Image-Collection-55222.asp

Dental and medical images for learning & teaching

The Library subscribes to two image banks which provide copyright compliant, sourced images that can be used in your lecture notes, powerpoints and online units of study.

imagesMD is a collection of images taken from some core textbooks. All images contain correct citations so you are able use them and cite them correctly. You can create a personal account to store images and email them to yourself in PowerPoint format. (Unikey or Library barcode required)

MDconsult Another collection of images taken from textbooks provided by MDConsult. All images link back to the e-books and full citation is provided. Select the “Images” link from the top menu. You can email yourself images. (Unikey or Library barcode required)

Two alternative images banks are HONmedia by the Health On the Net Foundation and MEDIMAGES, a list of links to other pages and sites on the Internet offering biomedically related multimedia material, maintained by the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden). In both cases you will need to check the copyright statements regarding the use of their images for educational purposes.

Image databases

The Library provides access to a number of image databases, which contain images across a wide variety of subject areas which have the potential to be used in lecture presentations, student assignments and the like.

The new list of Image Databases contains two databases of interest to dentistry.

Firstly, images.MD. Images.Md contains over 50,000 medical images, including some covering dentistry. You have the option of either searching the databases directly, or browsing by collection - select upper respiratory tract and head and neck for dental images. By registering on the site you have the options of settting up your own image library on the site as well as creating PowerPoint presentations.

The other database is Anatomy.TV. Anatomy.tv provides access to interactive 3-D models of human anatomy. It should prove useful as a both a teaching and a study tool. In addition to the 3D images, the product also contains slides, MRI, movies, as well as MCQ's and a quiz.

Full functionality requires Windows Media player, QuickTime player or RealPlayer, and pop-ups to be enabled in your browser.

Both databases will require either your Unikey login or Library borrower number login for off-campus access. Access is restricted to University of Sydney staff and students.