Wikipedia:Pictures for medical articles

Wikipedia has over 1900 articles that could use pictures of medical topics. This essay describes how to use journals, Commons, Flickr, and other resources to find them.

To find articles with image requests, see this category. To add an article to the list, copy and paste {{Image requested|date=November 2024|medical subjects}} on the talk pages of medical articles needing pictures.

Journals and Commons

• The NIH has a search engine for open images that are from journals. Use with care.

Open-access journals using Wikimedia-compatible licenses (e.g. those from BioMed Central or PLOS) have images and media that can be uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons, where they can be located via journal or publisher categories, which are used for indexing. Another option are topic categories there, e.g. commons:Category:Lipoma. These categories are currently (as of November 2012) being reworked (mainly by distributing their contents into more specialized subcategories - e.g. commons:Category:GTP-binding proteins and subcategories thereof) in order to accommodate the multimedia files (9k so far) brought in by the Open Access Media Importer. Help with that would be appreciated - for instance, most of the imported files (and some of the categories created along the way) still need category review, and many topics still miss interwiki links to and from Commons. If an article contains multimedia files relevant for Wikipedia, it is likely to have a few useful images, text bits or references too. See also commons:Category:Open access (publishing).

Try also the Free Image Search Tool to find images on Flickr and other web sites.

List of journals

All journals in the list of journals with a SPARC Europe seal are compatible with reuse on Wikimedia projects.

Other resources

Topic	Source	url	Permission required	Comments
Medicine	Memorable cases	[1]	No	For high quality images contact Doc James
ECGs	ECGPedia	[2]	Obtained per here	Agree to release many of the ECGs under a creative commons 3.0 license
Echos	EchoPedia	[3]	Obtained per here	Agree to release many of the ECHOs under a creative commons 3.0 license
PCI	PCIPedia	[4]	Obtained per here	Agree to release many of the PCI images under a creative commons 3.0 license
Radiology	Radiopaedia	[5]	For some images	general at radiopaedia dot org
MedPix	Radiology	[6]	Permission required	james-smirnio at usuhs dot mil
Health	Center for Disease Control	[7]	No
Parasites	Center for Disease Control	[8]	No
Cancer	National Cancer Institute	[9]	Most are copyrighted
Science	Images included in any PLoS article	[10]	No
Science	BioMed Central	[11]	Some images may be used per [12]
General	Creative Commons Flickr	[13]	No	Pending on the license (CC-BY; CC-BY-SA and PD are usable)
General	Wikimedia Commons	commons:Main Page	No
Ophthalmology	UMich	[14]	No	A collection of ophthalmology images
Pathology	Ed Uthman	[15]	No
General	Hardin's collection	[16]	No
ENT	Dr T. Balu's Otolaryngology	[17]	Pending discussion

See also

• WikiProject Open Access
• WikiProject Academic Journals