Sorry I haven't posted in a while, the systems librarian and I are working on our server and various problems. I replaced the tape drive Friday and we were able to do back ups for the weekend then all of a sudden on Monday it failed. What was the point of me replacing our broken tape drive when they sent us crappy refurbished one that would work better as a paper weight? Oh well that is not the point of my posting, so I will get on with it.

Images.MD is a neat product for any health science library who has a lot of doctors who do a lot of presenting. It is also idea for any medical school. They have over 50,000 medical images from more than 90 collections and 2,000 contributors and each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text.
Images.MD allows you to supplement your lectures with quality medical images and diagrams on almost every medical topic (90 collections of topics in of clinical medicine). Images can be downloaded into PowerPoint presentations and can burned on CD.
For doctors or researchers worried about permissions, they have a permissions department for information about acquiring permissions for their images. If you have ever had to hunt through the web or various journals and books to find the "right" images, it is nice to have sort of one stop shopping area where you can find the image and then secure permissions if necessary.

I had a brief little demo and it truely covers a lot of medical topics and conditions. What is nice is that they have a fairly robust searching feature that allows you to find the type of images you are looking for. Anyone who has searched the internet knows that searching for images is quite tricky. I think this database does a nice job because it is strictly a medical database of images, therefore you do not get a lot of clutter images that you would normally find in some free image databases.

We have decided to add this image database for 2005. I will keep you updated on what sort of feedback we get from our users.