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Noah's Arkive

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« What is Noah's Arkive?

Noah's Arkive is a collection of approximately 30,000 images contributed by veterinarians from around the world. Each image is uniquley identified and searchable by species, system, organ/tissue, diagnosis, cause, contributor, institution, and genpath. Our two biggest groups of users are instructors needing images to illustrate lessons or presentations, and persons studying for boards.

« History

Noah's Arkive—originally known as The International Veterinary Pathology Slide Bank—was conceived in the early 1980's as a repository of slides contributed by individuals and institutions around the world. More than 250 contributors from 13 countries submitted 2x2 slides for technical and medical screening.

Each slide was identified by contributor, institution, species, system, tissue or organ, and diagnosis or key words. All of this information was then entered into a computer database and cataloged for easy retrieval.

In 1986, the 3rd Edition was the first to become available in a digitized format—Laser Videodisc.  In February 2008, with the 9th Edition, the slides became available as DVD subsets: Clinical Pathology, Canine, Feline, Equine, Porcine, Ruminant, and WHEAL (Wildlife, Human, Exotic Animals, Avian, Laboratory Animal).

In 2010, Noah's Arkive was rebuilt from the ground up. The subsets were re-merged, and the entire archive relaunched as a single web-based service; at long last becoming available to users of all web-capable operating systems.

Today, Noah's Arkive has grown to approximately 30,000 images of veterinary medicine including gross lesions, histopathology, normal histology, cytology and hematology, parasitology, poisonous plants, animals with/without clinical signs, schematics, radiographs, electron micrographs and techniques.

We would welcome you as a subscriber and/or as a contributor. This is a non-profit endeavor and all monies are solely utilized to maintain Noah's Arkive.

Last Updated September 27, 2010

NOAH'S ARKIVE
Department of Pathology
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Georgia
501 D.W. Brooks Drive
Athens, GA 30602-7388 USA

Email: pathweb@uga.edu
Phone: 706.542.5837
Fax: 706.542.5828

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Noah's Arkive images are for educational, nonprofit use in face-to-face instruction, or for use in the preparation of audio-visual materials which will be used on your campus only. Duplication is authorized for use on your campus only. These materials may not be used in any publication without the written consent of the original producer and the International Veterinary Pathology Slide Bank (Noah's Arkive).