About ImageBank
Welcome to the Centre for Bioscience, the Higher Education Academy, ImageBank.

This resource consists of freely available images contributed by academics, researchers, Learned Societies, industry and individuals with rights cleared for educational purposes.

Users are able to search for images based on keywords or browse within a wide range of bioscience subject areas. Images are then 'downloadable' along with informative descriptive text provided by the contributor. All images undergo a validation process by Centre for Bioscience staff with good subject knowledge. ImageBank also offers reviews of, and links to existing bioscience image databases.

Terms and conditions of use
Images and text may only be freely downloaded and used for learning and teaching purposes within educational establishments (HE, FE and schools) for non-profit purposes only, see terms and conditions. The user is required to acknowledge the contributor, the copyright holder and the Centre for Bioscience ImageBank on every use of the image(s). The user by using any image agrees to the terms and conditions of use.

Contributors
We would like to thank all those within the Bioscience community who have generously contributed their images to ImageBank. View contributors.

Would you like to contribute an image?
ImageBank has been developed entirely through image contributions from the Bioscience educational and research community, Learned Societies, industry and individuals. If you would like to contribute a bioscience image then please contact us at heabioscience@leeds.ac.uk. Alternatively you can 'upload' your images directly to us:

Click here to upload images on line

Contributors are requested to supply informative text for each image.

Image Copyright
Copyright in the image(s) remains with the original copyright holder e.g. the contributor, or the contributor's employer. The Centre for Bioscience does not hold copyright in the images.

Clearing Copyright

The author (usually the contributor) of the image(s) is required to sign a licence agreement to confirm the conditions upon which the images will be used by the Centre for Bioscience. This will be sent to the author on receipt of the image(s).

The Centre for Bioscience will seek a licence agreement from the author's employer, where copyright in the image(s) resides with the author's employer.

The Centre for Bioscience ImageBank has negotiated central copyright clearance for all images submitted to the Centre for Bioscience ImageBank from staff at:

. University of Reading
. University of Leeds
. University of Newcastle upon Tyne
. University of Leicester

and fast track clearance procedures with the following Universities:

. University of West of England, Bristol
. University of Wales, Swansea
. University of Bangor
. University of Manchester
. University of Ulster
. University of East Anglia

Who funds ImageBank?
The Centre for Bioscience ImageBank was established with funding from the Centre for Bioscience, the Higher Education Academy, (formerly the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Bioscience) and the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee). It is now funded solely by the Centre for Bioscience, the Higher Education Academy.

Feedback
We would value your feedback and comments to help us further develop and improve the Centre for Bioscience ImageBank.

LINKS
We have evaluated and offer links to other bioscience image collections, many with rights cleared for educational purpose. You can search or browse our database of 'other image collections' through our LINKS page.