Creative Commons 20 Pathology

Creative Commons at 20

Creative Commons turned 20 in 2022.

Welcome to the Creative Commons at 20 birthday celebration for pathology! This page documents the wealth of content on Creative Commons licenses related to pathology. Please feel free to expand the page by including more pathology initiatives licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

Pathology initiatives in Wikimedia

• Pathology at Wikimedia Commons
• Atlas of Pulmonary Pathology by Dr. Yale Rosen, containing 2000+ images.
• Atlas of Medical Foreign Bodies by Dr. Yale Rosen containing 200+ images.
• Ed Uthman's Flickrstream, by Dr. Edward Uthman containing 300+ images
• Images from Calicut Medical College, as reference material for undergraduate medical education.
• Open Pathology Project on Wikiversity

Pathology initiatives outside Wikimedia

The following initiatives use Creative Commons licences and host their content outside Wikimedia.

• Libre Pathology, a wiki containing educational material related to pathology.
• NC Commons, a wiki containing NC or ND licensed media files, including several pathology images, particularly skin pathology.
• AnatomyTool, a website containing open access anatomy content, which includes histology images. Most content are licensed under CC-BY-ND-SA.
• The Human Protein Atlas, containing over 5 million immunohistochemistry images of cancer tissues and related publications licensed under CC-BY-SA.
• Medical Graphics 3D, contains primarily anatomical structures, but some pathophysiology images are also present. CC-BY-ND licensed.
• Cell Image Library, Library of cellular structures under CC varied licenses.
• The Health Education Assets Library collection containing histopathology images, shared under CC-varied licenses.
• National Cancer Institute collection containing mostly Public Domain images

Notable pathology images

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  This image showing gastric mucosa was selected as the Picture of the Day on English Wikipedia
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  Image showing the histopathological appearance of histoplasmosis, a rare disease.
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  Histopathology of aspergillosis showing sunburst apperanance
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  Illustrated image showing Demodex folliculorum
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  Image showing gross pathology of conjunctival melanoma
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  Comparison of histopathology stains
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  Gross pathology of renal stone
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  Gross pathology of hydatid cyst