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Bioscience (general)
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Moving Image Gateway
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/ga
teway/
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This site is run by the British Universities Film and Video Council. It collects together moving image websites from all scientific subjects and provides an evaluation of each one. There are more than 600 moving image websites collected at present and it is growing at approx 10 a month. The sites are categorised by academic discipline.
Copyright information:
The images can be obtained from the collected websites, which all have their own copyright policies.
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Bioimages - Virtual Field Guide UK
http://www.bioimages.org.
uk/
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A website containing over 30,000 natural history pictures, mainly British in origin, which are indexed by Google. The images are intended to illustrate biodiversity, and as an aid to identification and are arranged in the normal phylogenic hierarchy. The subject area includes habitat pictures, macro-shots, close-ups and microscopy.
Copyright information:
The images on this website are subject to copyright laws. If they are intended for non-commercial use which furthers science research, education, or wildlife conservation, they can be used free of charge. Permission may be given for small numbers of images to be used for non-commercial purposes, which do not fulfil these requirements. Images intended for commercial use may be permitted in exchange for a fee.
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Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org/art
ifact/ArtifactDetail.po?o
id=3000000000000451718
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Around seven thousand images which include those of agriculture, chemistry, geology, IT, astronomy, computer science, physics, biology, engineering and health science. There are links to several collections and simulations in each subject area, with peer reviews and memebers comments.
Copyright information:
Each collection has its own copyright although in most cases the images can be used for personal and academic use.
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Exploratorium Educators Digital Assets
http://hypatia.explorator
ium.edu:8080/Cumulus/Stan
dard/Login2.jsp
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The Exploratorium is a science museum which has been online since 1993 and it is one of the most visited science museum websites in the world. The digital assets section of the website is defined as content from different media (e.g., photographs, video, text, audio, Web pages, etc.) preserved in digital form. The site contains over 700 digital images which range from photographs to cartoons. There is no particular subject to which the images are limited to but it is possible to search the site by conceptual area (life sciences maybe a particularly relevant area to browse or search).
Copyright information:
The digital assets are protected by copyright and trademark laws, and are the property of the Exploratorium. The images may be downloaded and used for educational or personal use.
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New Medias Curriculum-Focused Software for Teaching Science
http://www.biologymad.com
/master.html?http://www.b
iologymad.com/usefulwebsi
tes/usefulwebsites.htm
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The Biological Tutorials and Animations section of this website provides a range of teaching materials for subjects such as the heart, cell biology, genetics, anatomy and physiology. The Photos section also has some dissection powerpoints, which are useful for teaching and learning about general physiology and, in particular, the heart.
Copyright information:
Most of the resources on this website are copyright cleared for personal and academic use although each link has its own copyright clauses.
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The ilumina Digital Library
http://www.ilumina-dlib.
org/
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This is a digital library of teaching materials for biology, chemistry, maths, physics and computer science. The navigation of the site is quick and easy to use and the resources are helpful. This site is aimed at undergraduates and has over 800 biological resources available. Registration is only required for contributions of images, viewing and downloading are free.
Copyright information:
Permission has been granted to make copies of resources for educational and scientific use without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage. See http://turing.bear.uncw.edu/iLumina/copyrightPage.asp for details.
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Science Photo Library
http://www.sciencephoto.c
om/index.html
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This site has over 150,000 images from all scientific fields. It is the leading provider of scientific images and is renowned for its high quality images, created by photographers, illustrators, scientists and medical specialists. The subject coverage is wide and the captions provided with the images are very comprehensive. Publishers, advertisers and the national press are all users of this resource. This unrivalled site is a must, even if for a browse of the most popular images.
Copyright information:
The images are subject to copyright and must not be used for any purpose without permission. See http://www.sciencephoto.com/terms.html for details.
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Biomedias educational multimedia biology site
http://www.ebiomedia.com/
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Over 100 images of living biological images are available on this site. Some movies are also provided. When the mouse moves over the image a short description is also provided. The images are diverse and of good quality and would be well suited for educational purposes.
Copyright information:
Limited educational use of the information here is allowed. See http://www.ebiomedia.com/info/permission.html for details.
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Biological Digital Teaching Resource Library
http://bio-ditrl.sunsite.
ualberta.ca
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This is the bio-database of the Biological digital Teaching Resource Library of the University of Alberta. It offers images, animations, and video clips with descriptive text for each item. Subjects range from microbiology to higher plants, but the emphasis is on zoology.
Copyright information:
University of Alberta.
Anyone may search or browse the site, but users must subscribe to download images which are free to teachers and students.
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Dennis Kunkel Microscopy Inc.Education Web Site
http://education.dennisku
nkel.com/catalog/
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This is the education section of the commercial site Dennis Kunkel Microscopy Inc.
The Education Image Library contains over 1500 micrographs covering a huge range of biological and medical subjects photographed with both light and electron microscopes.
These images show plant and animal cells and structures in incredible detail, and each image is accompanied by descriptive text.
Quick search and browsing facilities make access to the images easy.
Copyright information:
Permission to use the images for teaching purposes may be obtained by contacting Dennis Kunkel.
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Habitas Online
http://www.habitas.org.uk
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This is the website of the Ulster Museum Sciences Division. Habitas is a collection of databases containing species information and site records for wild and garden plants, European orchids,dragonflies, ground beetles, ladybirds, lichens, butterflies and moths, invertebrates, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, marine life, and rocks and fossils, Excellent species descriptions and distribution maps are in many cases accompanied by images, which serve as useful aids to identificaion.
Copyright information:
Photographs and text are copyright of the National Museums of Northern Ireland or of photographers credited on the site, and are not available for use unless prior permission is obtained.
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Virtual Fossil Museum
http://www.fossilmuseum.n
et/index.htm
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This is an excellent site, with high quality images, detailed descriptions.Phylogenetic information given alongside the images.
Copyright information:
Images are freely available for personal use, teaching, research or in scientific and other publications as long as acknowldgement is given to the Virtual fossil Museum. Content may not be used for commercial purposes.
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National Science Foundation Multmedia Gallery
http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/i
ndex.cfm
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The Biology section of this website has a collection of images, each accompanied by a detailed description, and links to related material. An excellent resource.
Copyright information:
Images are free for personal, educational, and non-profit use. High Resolution copies of the images are free to download.
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