Each file in the gallery has passed at least two peer reviews to optimize the image and its metadata, and to ensure that the information is sufficient and accurate.
The gallery is searchable via keywords or teachers can browse by subject, download images at no cost, and use them freely for educational purposes.
Harold Hafs (Rutgers University) is the founding Editor-in-Chief.
The American Society of Animal Science oversees the peer reviews required of new submissions, and the USDA National Agricultural Library manages the gallery website and the holdings after they are accepted.
The Animal Science Image Gallery began as a partnership between the Animal Science Education Consortium (fifteen colleges and universities in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states) and the National Agriculture Library (NAL), funded (2003-2007) by a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant.