UC Library Guides: Images: Images

Using images

Locating images and photographs is an important feature for scholarship. Search results in many scholarly databases can now be expanded to include photographs or images.

Finding images in UC databases

EBSCOhost Image Collection This link opens in a new window
Over 510,000 images relating to people, natural science, places, history, maps and flags
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Fulltext archive journal collection for the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Search results are separated into tabs named "Articles," and "Images in JSTOR," [results with images where the search term matches image captions]

Images Guides on the Web

Images Research Guide (Boatwright Memorial Library)

Resources from the Virtual Training Suite (UK)

Copyright

"Artistic works and images which are embedded in text for the purpose of explaining or illustrating the literary work (incidental artistic works), can be copied along with the text following the guidelines of reasonable portions applicable there..." Copyright at UC

Searching the Web

Google Advanced Image Search This link opens in a new window
Find images from websites. For re-usable images, use the Usage Rights filter & select:
a) Labelled for reuse - results will only include images labelled with a license that allows you to copy and/or modify the image in ways specified in the license.
OR
b) Labelled for reuse with modification - results will only include images labelled with a license that allows you to copy and modify the image in ways specified in the license.
The usage rights filter shows pages that are either labelled with a Creative Commons license or labelled as being in the public domain. It also shows images labelled with the GNU Free Documentation license. Most licenses require that you give credit to the image creator when reusing an image
Creative Commons Search Portal This link opens in a new window
Search portal to locate media which may be under creative commons licencing.
Use the ? icon for instructions.
WorldImages This link opens in a new window
California State University IMAGE Project provides access to over 100,000 historic images for teaching and research. Search by keyword or portfolio (subject grouping).
Flickr: Creative Commons This link opens in a new window
Creative commons subset of the Flickr image and video hosting website. Browse or search through content under each type of CC licence.
Wikimedia Commons This link opens in a new window
A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language
Image*After This link opens in a new window
Searchable collections of images and textures which are available for reuse and modification.