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Image, Video, & Audio Resources

Below is a list of image, video, and audio resources available to you from Mohave Community College databases and outside sources.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, in addition to evidence-based care sheets.
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles on dental and the oral sciences, including dental public health, endodontics, odontology, orthodontology, periodontology and prosthodontics.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand is a streaming video service with outstanding educational programming.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Access full-text articles on medical topics and basic biology, anatomy, and physiology.
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Access full-text articles and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A full-text database covering sports and sports medicine journals and providing full text for hundreds of journals indexed in SPORTDiscus.

Images:

Open i [Biomedical Image Search Engine] - Service of the National Library of Medicine enables search and retrieval of abstracts and images (including charts, graphs, clinical images, etc.) from the open source literature, and biomedical image collections.
Orthopedic Surgical Anatomy Teaching Collection - Includes digital photographs and illustrations of human anatomy dissections.
Partners Infectious Disease Images - The goal of this site is to present images of interesting and instructive Infectious Disease cases to healthcare trainees and professionals for educational purposes. Cases and images within ID images are described using terms from the NLM's Medical Subject Headings. You will need to register for a free account to use the site. Please see the Permissions and Copyright section to learn how to ethically use material from this resource.
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) - Created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. Public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public are welcomed to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages.

Videos:

CrashCourse Anatomy and Physiology - Series of free videos by PBS Digital Studios, covering a variety of topics in anatomy and physiology - the heart, urinary system, endocrine and lymphatic systems, muscles, tissues and many others.
KhanAcademyMedicine - This channel includes Khan Academy videos on Medicine, presented by Rishi Desai, MD.
Khan Academy NCLEX-RN - Collection of questions from content covered on the NCLEX-RN. These questions are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/).
Osmosis.org - A leading medical & health education platform with an audience of over 700,000 current & future clinicians & caregivers.
RegisteredNurseRN.com - Provides FREE NCLEX reviews, skills, school tips, & career help for students and nurses.

Below is a list of image, video, and audio resources available to you from Mohave Community College databases and outside sources.

Culinary Arts [Gale OneFile] This link opens in a new window
All aspects of cooking and nutrition, including thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand is a streaming video service with outstanding educational programming.
Fine Arts (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Supports research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and film-making.
Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Covers topics related to and discussed in the disciplines of religion and philosophy.
U.S. History (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History.
U.S. History (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Access scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers.
World History (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History.
World History (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Access scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers.
World Scholar: Latin American & the Caribbean [Primary Sources] This link opens in a new window
An archive of digitized primary documents on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back from the early 1800s through present.

Images:

U.S. Government Resources: Historic letters, pamphlets, photographs, and other images digitized and made available by the Library of Congress and National Archives.

Other Resources:

Dave Rumsey Historical Map Collection - 16th through 21st century maps and other types of charts.
Shorpy Historic Photo Archive - Offers historic photographs and prints.
New York Public Library Digital Collections - A massive collection of historic photographs, documents, letters, pamphlets, and other images; browse by collection or key word.

Audio/Video:

Library of Congress: Webcasts - Live presentations and recordings given at the Library of Congress.
Library of Congress: National Jukebox -Offers a wide-range of historical sound recordings.
Library of Congress: YouTube Channel -Contains presentations given at the Library of Congress; also contains historical films and clips.
TED Talks - Offers short talks and lectures on a range of humanities including history, religion, philosophy, and more.
Prelinger Archives - Contains thousands of advertising, educational, instructional, and amateur films on a variety of topics.
Moving Image Archive - A variety of movies, films, and clips that are in the public domain.

Below is a list of image, video, and audio resources available to you from Mohave Community College databases and outside sources.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers from almost every area of academic study.
arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Research in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, history, psychology, economics and political science.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
Research in biology, bio-medicine, and medicine.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Online reference collection with over 900 online encyclopedias, subject dictionaries, biographical sources, and reference tools.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
In-depth, unbiased reports on social issues, international affairs, the environment, technology and the economy.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand is a streaming video service with outstanding educational programming.
Science (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
Authoritative content in the fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, health & medicine, math, and physics.

Images:

U.S. Government Resources

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - The CDC's Public Health Image Library (PHIL) contains historic images freely available for reference, teaching, and presentations.
National Library of Medicine - Contains over 70,000 digitized images from the 15th to 21st Century including photographs, art, engravings, and posters that demonstrate the history of medicine.
NIH Open Biomedical Search - Contains images related to the health field (medical, dental, and behavioral) including X-rays, photographs, CT scans, MRI's, ultrasounds, and more.
NASA Images - The Nasa Image Library contains historic photographs from 60 collections
NOAA Photo Library - Contains weather, space, shoreline, coastal, and marine life images related to monitoring the environment of the planet.
Other Sources:
Bio-Image Search (Stanford University) - Contains a host of biomedical images from public domain databases available for use
Cell Image Library - Showcases cell infrastructure with a variety of images, videos, and animations for research and educational purposes.

Audio/Visual:

Open Culture Science Videos - Featuring videos on astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, geology, religion, and more.
TED Talks - Offers short talks and lectures on a range of scientific topics including biology, chemistry, physics, and more.
Virtual Cell Animation Collection - Educational animations from the NDSU Molecular and Cellular Biology Learning Project.

Below is a list of image, video, and audio resources available to you from Mohave Community College databases and outside sources.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers from almost every area of academic study.
arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Research in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Computer Science This link opens in a new window
Access to business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Online reference collection with over 900 online encyclopedias, subject dictionaries, biographical sources, and reference tools.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
In-depth, unbiased reports on social issues, international affairs, the environment, technology and the economy.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand is a streaming video service with outstanding educational programming.
Information Science (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.

Images:

Wikipedia Public Domain Images - Great source of Public Domain images.
WikiMedia Commons - A collection of 50,781,436 (and growing) freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Audio/Video:

Khan Academy - Lots of free videos for a wide-range of abilities.
CrashCourse Engineering - Series of free videos by PBS Digital Studios, covering a variety of topics in engineering - fluid dynamics, laws of thermodynamics, nanomaterials and many others.
CrashCourse Physics - Series of free videos by PBS Digital Studies, covering a variety of topics in physics - quantum mechanics, magnetism, collisions, derivatives and many others.
HippoCampus - A free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.
MIT Audio/Video Lectures - Videos with accompanying assignments, lecture notes, and exams for MIT courses.
EduTube - Contains educational videos.