Research Guides: Biology: Animations and Videos

Multimedia Sources

These sources have a variety of multimedia available, including video, audio files, images, and scans. More targeted sources can be found in the boxes to the right.

Biodiversity Heritage Library Photo Albums
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. Over 124,000 freely available images.
BioInteractive
From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, an archive of 3D models, animations, films, videos, apps, ebooks, virtual labs, interactive videos, short courses, and interactive classroom resources on biology.
The Cell: An Image Library
A public and easily accessible resource database of images, videos, and animations of cells, capturing a wide diversity of organisms, cell types, and cellular processes
DigiMorph
The Digital Morphology library is a dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens.
Khan Academy - Biology
Open course materials on biology topics ranging from kindergarten through college level.
Royal Society of Biology Web Resources
Videos, animations, and simulators, and other resources from multiple contributors, archived by the RSB.
U.S. DOE BER Image Gallery Gateway
Images from the Genomic Science program and other U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) programs. Also includes archived images from the Human Genome Project and Microbial Genomics.
USFWS National Digital Library
Images, videos, audio files, maps, and scanned documents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Animations and Tutorials

Animations
From BioInteractive by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
3-D Animation Library
From the Cold Spring Harbor (CSH) Laboratory DNA Learning Center.
Virtual Cell Animation Collection
From the North Dakota State University Molecular and Cellular Biology Learning Center.
McGraw-Hill Biology Animations
Animations from McGraw Hill textbook Biology (7th edition; Raven, Johnson, Losos, Singer)
Animated Tutorials: General Biology
From Sumanas, Inc.
Animated Tutorials: Molecular Biology
From Sumanas, Inc.
Biology Digital Learning Resources
STEM higher education resources from the Concord Consortium.
Bio-Alive
Various contributors including PBS, YouTube, CELLS alive!, McGraw-Hill, and the University of Wisconsin.
The Biology Project
From the University of Arizona.

JoVE Videos

JoVE Unlimited
A single license providing seamless access to JoVE Research (JoVE Journal and Encyclopedia of Experiments) and JoVE Education (JoVE Core, Science Education, and Lab Manual), encompassing over 24,000 videos. Unlimited subscribers also gain automatic access to all new Research and Education content as it is released.

Biology: Animations and Videos

Multimedia Sources

Animations and Tutorials

JoVE Videos

New York Public Library Digital Collections