Poster Samples & Sharing
Search these sites to get ideas on how posters are presented within your discipline.
Also, if you upload your poster to one of these sites you can provide handouts or bookmarks with links to the electronic version of your poster at the conference, and keep your work accessible long after the conference.
- Faculty of 1000 Research PostersOpen access repository for posters and slide presentations across biology and medicine.
- epostersOpen-access journal that provides free access to over 1,800 scientific and medical posters presented at conferences from around the world.
- FigShare This link opens in a new windowfigshare allows users to upload any file format so that scholarly information can be disseminated electronically.
Designing a Research Poster
The following resources provide guidance on the poster creation process.
- ACP American College of Physicians - Preparing a Poster PresentationThis article addresses poster planning, production, and presentation.
Designing Science Presentations: A visual guide to figures, papers, slides, posters, and morePublication Date: 2013Matt Carter provides a visual guide designed specifically to aid scientists in the creation of compelling tables and figures, slides, posters, and web site material.
- Makesigns Scientific Poster TutorialStep-by-step guide to poster design and creation.
Images
These resources can be used to obtain copyright compliant images. Image resolution will vary.
- USC Academic Unit LogotypesUniversity approved logos.
- Open-i - Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine This link opens in a new windowOpen-i searches for images in all Open Access articles indexed in PubMed Central. Search over 600,000 copyright compliant images by keyword, topic, or image to find relevant or visually similar images.
- Pixabay This link opens in a new windowRepository of free, high quality, copyright compliant images. Begin typing "medical" into the search box. Click dropdown menu to filter by image type. Sign up for free account to download images.
- Wikimedia Commons This link opens in a new windowA database of freely usable, high resolution image files.
- Google Images This link opens in a new windowFor copyright compliant images: type in keywords, click "Search tools", click on "Usage rights" dropdown menu, select from the "Labeled for reuse" options.
- Multimedia Resources (in the Health Sciences) GuideFind videos, audio clips, images, and cases to use in education.
Working with images
- Tips for working with images in PublisherVendor tips for working with images in Publisher. Includes content about image size, resolution, file formats, and refining.
- Photoshop isn’t the only solution: 5 best programs for resizing imagesThis article provides step-by-step instructions on how to upsample images using Photoshop, GIMP, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Preview, and Pixlr.
Image Manipulation Guidelines
Low resolution images may be manipulated to improve print quality, however you want to proceed with caution when it comes to images that represent research data.
- Rossner, M., & Yamada, K. (2004). What's in a picture? The temptation of image manipulation. The Journal of Cell Biology, 11-15. PMID: 15240566This article provides specific guidelines on the do's and dont's of image manipulation in scientific publishing in order to ensure the integrity of your data.