Contribute

Would you like to contribute?

Great! You are on this page. That means you consider contributing to AnatomyTOOL. That is most welcomed.

AnatomyTOOL is a platform for Open anatomy learning material.
It is non-profit, initiated and maintained by departments of anatomy in the Netherlands and Flanders.
It was started with grants of the Dutch Ministry of Education.
It aims to enable teaching and learning anything related to anatomy with open educational resources and to make these resources easy findable.

But why would we need that? There are already so many anatomical pictures to be found everywhere! But not with an open license, so you can reuse it. And not anatomical atlas quality pictures, which go deeper than high school anatomy. And sometimes there are serious errors in online material. And even if it exists, it might not be easy to find... (Google does not (yet) recognize the proper hepatic artery on an image of the liver hilum. For example.)

So what do we mean by Open anatomy learning material?

Anatomy learning material - anything you can learn anatomy, histology and embryology with (or what a teacher can use to teach anatomy), so e.g. an anatomical drawing, a video of a dissection, an explanation video, a nice 3D model, a tutorial describing the anatomy relevant for a surgical operation, practice questions, etc. Or a collection of tip-top summaries that you don't have to pay for on a student-site with copied lectures. But it can also be fun that helps to learn or remember anatomy: a puzzle ('find the three mistakes!'), the first inter-galactic anatomical multi-player game,...
Open - It must be freely available to everyone. Material that is hosted ion AnatomyTOOL itself must have a Creative Commons license (explanation, cartoon, presentation), or be in the Public Domain (wikipedia explanation, Creative Commons labels). So that everyone can not only view it for free, but also edit and combine it. So, for example, Nisrin may use Piet's picture in her explainer video. Or Tim may draw the location of a surgical cut on an anatomical drawing made by Megan. And thus create a new drawing. Or put a label on a photo. Or instead remove the labels....
And oh yes, it must concern normal human anatomy - so no, no cat duodenum or spinal cord of a spotted squid, nor nasty inflammations or such alike. But anatomical variations and congenital abnormalities are fine.

Which kind of contributions do we envision?

You make open anatomy learning material - e.g. an explanation video in which you discuss the muscles of the arm in 10 minutes and show which muscles you use when you open a jam jar or swipe on your mobile, a dissection video or photos in which you show how it really looks like, a nice anatomical drawing, a handy summary, a puzzle with anatomical terms, a cool 3D model, an anatomical cartoon that you will never forget,...
You edit existing open anatomy learning material - e.g. you modernize and colour in old anatomical drawings (e.g. the black and white Sobotta drawings on AnatomyTOOL), so that they are completely super again. Or you add labels to images. So that a student may benefit from it, and not only the lecturer understands it.
You find and collect open anatomy materials from the internet and submit them to AnatomyTOOL. Oh, that's easy... just Google it... done! Um, no.... 99% of all anatomy images online are not openly licensed (or are even posted illegally). And we don't want that! So easy? Not at all! It's more like finding a needle in a haystack. But if you can recognize both anatomy quality and the Creative Commons licenses you will do fine. (Tips: search Creative Commons, search Pubmed open access).
You review material on AnatomyTOOL and become a 'master bug finder'. (And of course correct it too). We also would be much helped by librarians to check licenses of the material. We try to only publish legally open licensed material on AnatomyTOOL, but if we would make a mistake, we would like to notice this and correct it as soon as possible.

What types of material do we think of?

• Dissection photo’s/video’s
• Anatomical drawings/ photo’s
• Anatomical 3D models
• Tutorials
• Practice questions
• Puzzles

etc... anything that helps to learn anatomy!

So, you've got a great anatomical image, dissection video, set of practice questions, etc. and you are willing to share it. Or you found such online e.g. in an open access article 
No how to get it on AnatomyTOOL?

A few steps are needed for the first time you contribute.

1. Create an account
2. Send a mail to o.p.gobee@lumc.nl with a request to upgrade your account to allow uploading of material. We do want to ensure though that only anatomically correct and legal material is uploaded. Therefore we would like to know a bit about you. Please tell us your:
   1. full name
   2. postal address and country
   3. email-address
   4. academic or health care related degrees, if any
   5. profession, if any
   6. professional affiliation, if any
   7. relation to and expertise in anatomy
   8. optional: what kind of material do you expect to contribute and what makes you consider to contribute?

We will store your details safely, only workers in the organisation of AnatomyTOOL will be allowed access to them. We will only use your details 1) to judge your upload permission request 2) to get in touch with you in case of any questions or issues regarding material you posted or your activities on AnatomyTOOL 3) to inform you about matters relating to AnatomyTOOL. We won't spam you, we promise. If your professional affiliation is a higher educational institution or a hospital we will add this institution's name to the list of institutions and connect this institution's name to your account. On the platform, in relation to your content, might be shown 1) your name, 4) degrees, 5) profession, 6) affiliation and 7) expertise in anatomy. We will not publish your 2) postal address and 3) e-mail address, nor any information you provide under 8) expected contributions and motivation, unless you explicitly allow us to do so. We might publish non-personally identifiable grouped data, such as number of accounts by type of affiliation, country or profession, types of expertise, etc.

We foresee contributors with backgrounds such as (a non-exhaustive list):

2. • anatomist
   • teacher of anatomy
   • medical doctor
   • physiotherapist
   • medical student
   • medical illustrator
   • librarian
   • but quite probably there are other backgrounds that provide anatomical expertise, that we did not think of. Feel free to apply as contributor if you have another background.
3. We will consider your application and inform you of our decision. We expect in most cases we will be happy to grant you permission to contribute. If we grant you the permission you can start creating items on AnatomyTOOL. Welcome!

As soon as you have been granted right to contribute, you can start contributing.

• sign in
• create content, e.g.
  
  • Document, Image, Video, 3D model, etc.
  • questions
  • learning path (lesson, quiz)
• Please follow the title conventions.
• And make sure the license is correct! (see explanation below)

Would you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at o.p.gobee@lumc.nl. We will be more than happy to assist you.

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Make sure the license is correct

Sorry, a bit complicated part, but you should know this if you contribute material to AnatomyTOOL...
The material on AnatomyTOOL should have a Creative Commons (CC) license or be in the  Public Domain (PD).

What you need to do depends on the situation.

You post a link to Creative Commons licensed or Public Domain material on another site.
At the link on AnatomyTOOL, include the license that the material has and the name(s) of the author(s).

You download or copy material that has a Creative Commons license or is in the Public Domain from another site and upload a copy into AnatomyTOOL.
With the copied material on AnatomyTOOL, include the license that the material has, the name(s) of the author(s), and a link to the source site.

You made the material yourself
Awesome! Then you must give the material a Creative Commons license or place it in the Public Domain. But watch out! You may only do so if you are the copyright owner or have permission to do so from the copyright owner. The basic rule is that the maker owns the copyright. But if you made the work as employee, the employer might be the copyright oner. The rules for this may vary per country, institution or with individual agreements. So be sure to check in advance with your employer whether he/she agrees that you give your work a Creative Commons license or place it in the public domain.

Your work is derived from or based on other people's work that is in the Public Domain.
That's fine. If enough creativity or 'a personal stamp' was added to create the new derivative work, the derivative work you have created will be copyrighted. See further under 'You made the material yourself'.

Your work is derived from or based on work by others that has a Creative Commons license.
Follow the terms of the Creative Commons license of the original work to determine which Creative Commons license you can give the derivative work you created. See further under 'You made the material yourself'.

If you combine several works with a Creative Commons license, things can get a bit complicated. See this table to check whether the combination is legally possible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vectorized_CC_License_Compatibil...

Your work is derived from or based on work of others that is copyrighted and does not have an open license.
You may only license the derivative work or place it in the public domain under a Creative Commons license if you have permission from the copyright holder of the original work. This is cumbersome and uncertain. We therefore strongly advise against using in your material copyrighted work of others that does not have an open license. So don't use images from commercial atlases or from any site on the Internet. Should you wish to do so, we require that you include written permission from the copyright owner for the use of their work and for the license you have given the derivative work.