PubMed: an untapped source for open educational resource images.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-13 DOI:10.5195/jmla.2026.2210

Ellie Svoboda, Teresa Connolly

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Abstract

Background: Open Educational Resources (OER) are free learning materials that benefit students in higher education, including in the health sciences. As more health sciences OER materials are created, there is a need for openly licensed health sciences images. Traditional OER repositories lack specialized health sciences imagery while PubMed is a biomedical database that has potential to fill this gap.

Case presentation: A nursing faculty partnered with a health sciences librarian to search PubMed for openly licensed images for a pathophysiology OER textbook. The librarian used existing filters in PubMed to identify articles that have Creative Commons licenses as well as images. The nursing faculty assessed these images and added relevant ones to the pathophysiology textbook.

Conclusions: PubMed is a free resource that health sciences librarians use on a regular basis. Utilizing the database to find openly licensed materials allows librarians to use a familiar tool for a new and exciting purpose.

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PubMed：开放教育资源图像的未开发资源。

背景：开放教育资源（OER）是一种免费的学习材料，使高等教育的学生受益，包括健康科学。随着越来越多的健康科学OER材料被创建，需要公开许可的健康科学图像。传统的OER存储库缺乏专门的健康科学图像，而PubMed是一个生物医学数据库，有可能填补这一空白。案例介绍：护理学院与健康科学图书管理员合作，在PubMed上搜索病理生理学OER教科书的公开许可图像。图书管理员使用PubMed中现有的过滤器来识别具有知识共享许可和图像的文章。护理人员对这些图像进行评估，并将相关图像添加到病理生理学教科书中。结论：PubMed是健康科学图书馆员经常使用的免费资源。利用数据库查找公开许可的资料，图书馆员可以使用熟悉的工具实现新的、令人兴奋的目的。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

10.00%

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审稿时长

26 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly that aims to advance the practice and research knowledgebase of health sciences librarianship. The most current impact factor for the JMLA (from the 2007 edition of Journal Citation Reports) is 1.392.