NIH Public Access Policy The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division F Section 217 of PL 111-8 (Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009).
The law states:
The Director of the National Institutes of Health ("NIH") shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, that the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 71 different sources and contains 164,857 records.
OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library in consultation with SUNY OER Services Executive Director.
Contains Health Sciences, Nursing, and Medical content.
Institutional Repositories:
Stanford Bio-Image Search: Includes biomedical images in the Public Domain or with Creative Commons licenses.(Click in the searchbox and then click below on "Images")
HEAL: The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) includes over 22,000 images and videos "freely available for health sciences education". Each item includes Creative Commons license information.
CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL): Photographs, illustrations, and videos related to public health issues. Most are in the public domain.
NIH Images: Flickr page with scientific, biomedical, and NIH-related images. Images "are considered free to use with credit."
Images from the History of Medicine: Flickr page with public domain images from the National Library of Medicine's historical collections
Creative Commons Search: Allows you to search different image and video sources using different CC criteria.