Based in London, the Wellcome Trust is the world’s largest medical research charity. Its mission is ‘to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health’. It is an excellent research point for those interested in medical research and the history of medicine. Also includes online exhibitions and updates on current research activities undertaken by the institute. Its extensive Medical Film and Video Library can be searched via the Wellcome catalogue. A Digital Film Collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine has been added for online streaming or download. This consists of over 450 titles - 100 hours of film and video - which are freely available under Creative Commons licences. The resource has been created by the Wellcome Library in partnership with JISC Collections.
In January 2014 the Wellcome Images collection went online, making available over 100,000 images under a Creative Commons licence, which means they can be downloaded to freely copy, distribute, edit and manipulate, for personal or commercial use as long as the source Wellcome Library is attributed.