Library Bulletin Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Library -- New Orleans

Images - Another Way to Search NCBI

*Edit* July 2011 - NCBI has dropped the Image database; it has been folded back into PubMedCentral.

The brand new NCBI (link removed) Images (link removed) database comprises approximately 3 million images from biomedical literature deposited in full-text resources at the NCBI. What does that mean for researchers? That articles indexed in PubMed Central (link removed) (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, are tagged if they have an image in the full-text of the article. This is especially helpful when looking for gene mapping and mutations.

In PubMed (link removed), use the pull down Search menu and select Images. Search the same as you would in PubMed. The images will be displayed next to the tag. Link to the citation in PubMed or go directly to the full text of the article. For other image collections, check out the list of Image Collections (link removed) in the online resource section of the Library's webpage. For assistance with NCBI Images or any of the Libraries' resources, please contact a Reference Librarian (link removed) at the Isché Library (504) 568-6102 / (504) 568-8339, or at the Dental Library (link removed) (504) 941-8158.

-- Kathy Kerdolff (link removed)