The BEST community has been overwhelmingly generous sharing their images, and we hope to continue that tradition with every new member.
Benefits for institutions
Apart from gaining access to the Slice Annotation tool, sharing images with the community is a great way to have your collection digitised and catalogued online — making your images easily searchable for the future.
As Slice functions as a virtual microscope, your institution won’t need to set up and maintain their own system and image bank.
Benefits for educators
Sharing your images with the community can make future transitions to another institution easier, as you will retain access to your old collections through the BEST Network.
For both institutions and educators, the access to images from other institutions provides a source of images that may be missing from their own collection and provides additional options for images that students may not have seen that can be used as revision practice or examination purposes.