Help:Creative Commons

Please check to make sure you are allowed to upload an image or reuse text. See this video for a good explanation of the different types of creative commons licenses.

Relevant Medical Wikis

• Radiopaedia - Radiology - note that there are many great anatomy illustrations, e.g. this artist
• WikEM - Emergency Medicine
• Wikidoc - Medical encyclopaedia
• Wikiskripta - A Czech medical school wiki
• WikiLectures - A medical school wiki
• WikiMedica - A French Canadian medical wiki

Not Creative Commons

• Orthobullets - Orthopaedic Surgery - NOT CREATIVE COMMONS
• Physiopedia - Physiotherapy - They use a lot of creative commons content, including share-alike content which requires that they must be creative commons too, but I haven't found a page that explicitly says that they are Creative Commons. They have this page from 2013 that states they are going to adopt it in "due course", but there is nothing since then. It has become increasingly commercial in recent years and so it would be safest to not reuse any of the content.

Other Sources

• StatPearls - uses CC BY4.0
• Open-i - images from PubMed Central articles, radiology, and illustrations
• MedPix - medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics
• Creative Commons Search - Creative commons image search
• Bassett Anatomy - Bassett collection of stereoscopic images of human anatomy
• Google image search - search by usage rights
• Openstax - Anatomy and physiology textbook
• OpenStax images - Pictures from OpexStax textbook
• BodyParts3D - 3D body, tricky to use
• Vintage anatomical illustrations
• Wikimedia Commons - Search for images on wikimedia commons
• Wikipedia General free image resources - A general list of free images

Instant Commons

You can use a feature called Instant Commons. Basically this lets you link to any wikipedia commons image without first uploading it to this site. This does seem make the page a little slower though. For example

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Open Access Publishers

• Many journals are open access and you can generally use media with attribution See the PubMed Open Access Web Service and filter by creative commons
• Directory of open access journals
• https://www.hindawi.com/
• https://www.biomedcentral.com/
• https://plos.org/

How to Reuse Content

Reusing Text

To reuse text, click on the icon in the editor. It will then load a template to fill out with the required fields, with the license for radiopaedia loaded in automatically. This needs to be changed if it is a different CC license.

{{Article derivation
|article=
|article-link=
|author=
|license=CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
|license-link=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
}}

Reusing Images

Upload the image using the sidebar Upload File link. Select the creative commons license, and attribute the author and put the link where you found it.

Non-relevant Medical Wikis

The content in these wikis is not relevant but as they run on mediawiki, the code can be reused.

• Eyewiki - Ophthalmology
• Hemonc - Haematology and Oncology