The BioMed Central Biology Image Library is an online collection of images, movies, illustrations and animations across biology and biomedicine, for use in education, research and other commercial applications. -Contributors retain image rights and Biology Image Library will also offer them the option of selling commercial use rights on their behalf. -Material is peer-reviewed by academic editors. -Users subscribe to the library and are able to search and group relevant material into slidesets which can be downloaded. In a future phase, users will also be able to select content that is available for commercial use.