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Writing for publication - tips and (free) tools: Creating a poster

A collection of tips, tools and guides to help with the writing process. Each item contains a link to the tool as well as its use.

How to design your poster

Charts and Diagrams

Images

Here are some good sources of health and bio-icons to add impact or clarity to your graphs, posters or paper.

  • SMART Servier Medical Art - Free medical images
  • SciDraw - A free repository of scientific drawings and images
  • Reactome - An open-source collection of scientific and bioinformatic images
  • Noun Project - A freemium collection of icons and photos
  • Health icons - Free, open source health icons which can be edited
  • BioRender - Thousands of customisable images on life science topics
  • Bioicons - High quality science illustrations
  • unDraw Open-source illustrations which can be used freely and without attribution.
  • SMART Servier Medical Art
  • Openi - Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine from the National Library of Medicine.