INTRODUCTION
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines -
Please follow Fair-Use copyright guidelines when using images on your ecampus website.
GETTING STARTED
GETTING STARTED: UCLA LIBRARY GUIDES
- Image Collections (College): Pictures & Images
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/research/reference/images.htm - Text and Image Collections (YRL): Manuscripts & Archives; Pictures & Images; Web Megasites
http://www.library.ucla.edu/yrl/reference/rco/digital.htm - Online guide to libraries, museums, image databases and online sources for art (Arts Library)
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/websites/wwwart.htm
GETTING STARTED: SEARCH ENGINES AND INTERNET IMAGE SITES
- Advanced Google Image Search -http://images.google.com Google image search will find items on publicly accessible websites
For high quality images, set image size to large, file type to JPG, color to full color
You might first try “.edu” in domain to restrict search to educational institute or “.org” (for non-profit sites, museums) - Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/ - this non-profit organization provides alternative forms of copyright licensing for authors, artists and educators that allow greater royalty-free sharing material. It is a good source for images, audio, video, and other educational material.
- Flickr Creative Commons - http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ - using the Creative Commons model, educators may search for relevant images and use them in accordance with the sharing guidelines.
- Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/ - makes available a variety of media, including images. Images are cross-referenced with relevant Wikipedia articles, so one can start by finding an article and seeing which images are included.
- Microsoft Office Free Clip Art and Media Online - extensive database of clip art and images, searchably by keyword.
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us (Note: unfortunately, Microsoft has been making more of these images in the windows media file formats, so file-format conversion may be necessary.)
Art: Subscription Databases & Tools
- AMICO library http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/amico.html
A collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. (Replaced by ARTstor in summer '05) - ARTstor http://www.artstor.org
A digital library of art images, associated information, and software tools. ARTstor contains approximately 300,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods. - Saskia http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/saskia.html
Offers art historical digital images, with a special emphasis on the history of Western Art . - Grove Art Online http://www.groveart.com/index.html
Comprehensive reference for visual arts. Contains full-text of the Dictionary of Art and links to images (both public and subscription). - Luna Insight http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/insight.html
http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/luna_privileges_amico.html
Searching tool for UC-subscribed image databases: Saskia, Library of UC Images, California Museum images, S*P*I*R*O, Amico as well as historical maps and some other specialized collections.
Selected Art Resources from Publically Available Databases and the WWW
- Art Images for College Teaching
Image Consortium for College Instructors
Images frequently used in college survey courses http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/ - Art History Resources on the Web - put together by an Art History professor.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html - Art History and Architecture databases:
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/ - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Art Imagebase
http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/ - New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm - Agence photographique de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) - museums in France
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/ - ArtCyclopedia - Online art collections and image archives of painting, sculpture and photography
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ - Web Gallery of Art - European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods, 1200-1700. http://www.wga.hu/index.html
- Webmuseum, Famous Paintings
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
UC Architecture Resources
- Albert Hoxie Slide Collection Online Database http://hoxie.ucla.edu/ ( UC Only )
- S*P*I*R*O Architecture Slide Library Database - Image database from UC Berkeley http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html
- Electronic Resources for Classicists - from UCI Professor Maria Pantelia. See "Collections of Images."
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/%7Etlg/index/resources.html - Architeture databases from the UCLA Art History library
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/
Selected Architecture Resources from Publically Available Databases and the WWW
- Digital Archive of Architecture - Architecture Image database from Boston College: Pictures & Images; Teaching Aids; Web Megasites http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/
- Cities and Buildings Collection - Architecture Image database at the University of Washington http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/
- Society of Architectural Historians - Architectural images donated for academic use (click on "Image Exchange"). http://www.sah.org/
Selected Literature Databases with First-Edition and Related Images (Subscription)
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) - contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home
- Empire Online - Images of original manuscripts and printed material, 1492-1962, taken from libraries and archives around the world ; arranged in five thematic sections, to be published 2003-2007
http://www.datagold.com/empire-ip/home.htm
Selected Foreign Language Learning Visuals, Publically Available Databases
- Clip Art Collection for Educational Use (Center for Applied Second Language Studies) http://casls.uoregon.edu/categories.php
- Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/default.html - Microsoft Office Free Clip Art and Media Online - extensive database of clip art and images, searchably by keyword.
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us (Note: unfortunately, Microsoft has been making more of these images in the windows media file formats, so file-format conversion may be necessary.)
- UCLA Language Materials Project - teaching resources for less-commonly taught languages.
Search the authentic materials: http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/ - Minna no Kyozai - This page is primarily for Japanese teachers, but any foreign language teacher can take advantage of their wide collection of photographs and pictures to create teaching materials.
http://momiji.jpf.go.jp/kyozai/English/Resources/Photo/Index.php - The Virtual Picture Album for less commonly taught languages - http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/vpa/
Historical Photographs: Subscription Databases & UC-Related
- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - Associated Press's current-year photo report and selected archival images; most images since 1995, but images of historical events dating back to the first half of the 19 th -century are also included. Contains American, international and Eurasian photos, as well as graphics, audio and text. Good for major events and people widely reported on in the news. http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/
- Search the historical New York Times and Los Angeles Times databases from the UCLA library website . The actual newspapers, including images, are preserved in PDF format.
- Go to the UCLA Library website. Under "search and find" click "article databases." Type keywords "historical newspapers"
- Explore the UCLA Digital Collections (which are publically accessible) http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/digital.cfm
American Historical Photographs, from Publically Available Databases
- National Archives and Records Administration - Search for images on American history and government . http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/topics/highlights.html
- American Memory - Library of Congress's National Digital Library includes photographs, sound and moving pictures. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Library of Congress - Other Images Resources (Primarily U.S.-related)
- LOC: Prints and Photographs Division, Reading Room
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/pphome.html#search - LOC Prints and Photographs Reading Room: Resource Lists and Bibliographies http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/resourceguid.html
- LOC Prints and Photographs Reading Room: Picture Catalogues online (U.S. and International)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/resource/223_piccat.html - LOC Prints and Photographs Online Catalogue
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
IMAGES of UCLA/UC
Atkinson Photographic Archive of UC campus architectural photos. There are more than 140 beautiful UCLA photos, and they are free for use on university web sites (and publications, as well). A photo credit is required: see the "copyright" page of the site.
For more information, consult UC Irvine's Finding and Using Images page from their Visual Resources Collection.
Last updated April 19, 2007 by rg.