HE Academy Centre for Bioscience 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.

Colour image of the thorax and abdomen

This is an image taken from Anatomy tv, an interactive resource for teaching and learning in anatomy and physiology which the University Library subscribes to. This image may not be changed, but you may take a copy and present it with other materials and resources you are using so long as they are password protected for access by members of the University only. "All products and all images within the products are protected by copyright. The products and images can only be used for private educational purposes, unless a specific license is purchased for any other usage. For any commercial usage of the images, please contact Primal Pictures Limited. The products allow members of the University of Southampton to ‘copy and paste’ all of the text as well as the images in the 3D-model window and all of the slides. These can then be pasted into nearly any other word-processing or graphics program, including Powerpoint. These resources can be made available to members of the University of Southampton via a password-protected service. This again is designed solely as a service for private educational uses. Like any publisher, Primal Pictures protects itself against copyright infringement. Please do contact Debra Morris in the University Library before using these resources to ensure that conditions are respected. ©Primal Pictures Limited 2007

Internet for Image Searching

"Internet for Image Searching" is a free online tutorial to help staff and students in universities and colleges to find digital images for their learning and teaching. The emphasis of the tutorial is on finding copyright cleared images which are available free; facilitating quick, hassle-free access to a vast range of online photographs and other visual resources. "This tutorial is an excellent resource for anyone needing to know more about where and how to find images online. The fact that it concentrates on copyright cleared images will make it even more valuable for busy learning and teaching professionals, researchers and students alike. It will also serve to inspire confidence in those needing to use images from the web in their work." (Sharon Waller of the Higher Education Academy).

Library Guide: Searching Databases - Hints & Tips

Detailed guide to searching bibliographic databases for journal articles. This is a generic guide, useful for any subject.

CV workshop - Projecting a professional image

Slides and activity sheets to accompany a set of practical workshop activities which help participants identify some of their individual skills, as the basis for a future coursework to produce a CV

Intute tutorial on image searching

Would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently?

Data - From Bits to Databases

Slides based on Brookshear, augmented with a lot of simple material to encourage the students to understand binary numbers!

Subject Specialist Databases

Powerpoint presentation of the talk given by Fiona Nichols, ECS Academic Liaison Librarian on Thursday 25th November for Info 2009.

JISC Digital media internet for image searching

This webpage provides links to image banks and sources of photos which are usable for educational purposes.

Performance Tuning Burger King's Brand Image

Advertising Design Management's Presentation - Burger King

Lecture Notes in Databases Part 1

Revised 7th November 2012 and 12th November Insert, update and delete slides added.