internet resources
Image
Resources on the Internet
An
unbelievable annotated list of image resource sites appropriate for
education—132 different sites at last count. When using these images for
purposes beyond your classroom, be sure to check each site’s use restrictions.
Although many of these sites contain images that are in the public domain or are
freely available for non-commercial use, some have restrictions on their use.
“Provided
for the purpose of granting rights to licensed users of Microsoft Office…
Examples of permissible use include, but are not limited to: newsletters,
brochures, web sites, presentations, flyers, postcards, trade show materials,
newspaper advertisements, product catalogs, and reports.”
The
catalog includes about 250,000 records representing over five million items.
About 90% of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images. Some
materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law or
restricted by terms of Library of Congress gift or purchase agreements, donor
restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks.
Transmission or reproduction of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use
requires the written permission of the copyright owners.
A
collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History.
“FreeFoto.com
is one of the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial use on
the Internet. The site features 40 main sections with over 600 sub headings. The
photographs are free to private non-commercial users and for sale to commercial
users. FreeFoto.com contains over 12,000 images with new pictures being added
every week.” Credit images used to the FreeFoto.com web site using its logo
linked back to freefoto.
http://www.freestockphotos.com/
Download
stock photographs absolutely free.
Arranged
in a variety of categories. Use in any website or publication you wish -
personal or commercial, but must include the domain name:
FreeStockPhotos.com
along
with each FreeStockPhotos.com picture used.
http://www.zettweb.com/grab-a-picture/
More
than 3000 jpg pictures arranged by subject. Non-commercial use: web site, online,
and multimedia designs; advertising and promotion campaigns; presentations and
brochures; packaging for anything except software, books, CDs and cassettes, and
videotapes. For all uses of images
at this site, provide a credit: "Image © 1999 ZettWeb. All rights reserved." to
appear adjacent to the images or in a credits comment.
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html
AICT is
a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community. Arranged
in the following categories: Ancient, Medieval Era, Renaissance & Baroque,
and Non-Western.
http://csanet.org/lanterns/lantindx.html
Bryn
Mawr College grants the right to use these images for non-profit, non-commercial
use in educational or academic settings to any scholar or student. The College
does, however, retain the right to control use of these images in any printed
product or for any commercial or fund-raising purpose.
http://www.sah.org/imagex.html
Somewhat difficult to navigate, but has a huge amount of resources for photographs and drawings of historical buildings. Most images can be used for non-profit educational use; republication must preserve the original credit for the source of the image. If any image is identified as “PR” (permission required), those images cannot be used without permission from the image provider. For easier access, categories are listed below:
World
Survey, Ancient through Medieval, plus early non-Europe: http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts1.html
World
Survey, Renaissance through Modern
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html
American
Survey
[1600-1779]
[1780-1849]
[1850-1899]
[1900-1944]
[1945-1976]
[addendum
of less consensual pedagogical favorites].
“Photographs are not protected by
copyright unless noted. If copyrighted, permission should be obtained from the
copyright owner prior to use. If not copyrighted, photographs may be reproduced
and distributed without further permission from NASA.”
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/
The Making of America collection is comprised of the digitized pages of books and journals. This system allows you to view scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th century texts. All materials selected in the MOA project are no longer covered by copyright.
Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco
http://www.thinker.org/fam/multilingual.html
The
Thinker Imagebase is a fully keyword
searchable database; it contains 75,000 images from the collections of the de
Young Museum and the Legion of Honor.
“If you would like to use an image from the ImageBase, or would like to
request a publishable quality copy of an image in the ImageBase (35mm slide, 4x5
transparency, 8x10 print) please send email to imagebase@www.famsf.org. Truly non-commercial uses are
encouraged. We would, however, like to hear about them, mostly because we'd like
to highlight your innovative educational uses of the collections. A
non-commercial use is anything which does not include resale and is usually
personal or educational in nature.”
The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo
Library
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html
Well-organized site
containing albums and catalogs of over 16,000 images. Great site covering 18
different subject categories. “Most NOAA photos and slides are in the public
domain and CANNOT be copyrighted. Although at present, no fee is charged for
using the photos credit MUST be given to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration/Department of Commerce unless otherwise instructed to give credit
to the photographer or other source.”
U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Pictures/Images
“Most of the images on our Web pages are
in the "public domain" (which means they have no copyright restrictions). If an
image on our Web site is not restricted and does not say it is copyrighted, then you can assume it
is in the public domain. You may download and use those copyright-free images in
your print and electronic publications. There's no fee to pay (i.e., they're
free), and no need to get permission from the Service for reusing
them.”
Pics4Learning
http://pics.tech4learning.com/pics/index.htm
“The Pics4Learning
collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students
and teachers in an education setting. The original photographers of each image
retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in
this collection. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in
print, multimedia, and video productions. These could include, but are not
limited to, school projects, contests, web pages, and fund raising activities
for the express purpose of improving student educational
opportunities.”
“The
nature of historical archival collections means that copyright or other
information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Whenever possible, the Library provides information about copyright owners and
other restrictions in the catalog records, finding aids, special-program
illustration captions, and other texts that accompany collections. The Library
provides such information as a service to aid patrons in determining the
appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the
patron.”
American
Memory: Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html
“There are no known restrictions on these photographs.”
American
Memory: America from the Great Depression to WWII
(1935-1945)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
“Photographs in this collection were taken by
photographers working for the U.S. Government. Generally speaking, works created
by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the
United States. While the Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright in the
FSA/OWI Black-and-White Photos, there is a narrow possibility that a very small
number of items may have copyrights associated with them Suggested credit Line:
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection,
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USF35-1326]”
American
Memory: Map Collections 1544-1999
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
“The maps in the Map Collections materials
were either published prior to 1922, produced by the United States government,
or both (see catalogue records that accompany each map for information regarding
date of publication and source). The Library of Congress is providing access to
these materials for educational and research purposes and is not aware of any
U.S. copyright protection or any other restrictions in the Map Collection
materials.”
FDR Library & Digital
Archives
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/photos.html
Copyright-free pictures of Franklin and
Eleanor Roosevelt, the depression and New Deal, and World War
II.
U.S. Air Force
Photos
“Information presented on Air Force Link is
considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of
appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.”
U.S. Navy
Online
Library
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm
“To the best of our knowledge, all Online Library pictures are in the public domain and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission.”
Discovery School’s Clip Art
Gallery
http://school.discovery.com/clipart/index.html
Permission is granted to download no more
than ten different clip art images for non-revenue-producing use on hard copy
documents or on Web sites with the following restrictions: Any reproduction must
be unaltered from its original downloaded form. This includes, but is not
limited to, colorization, cropping, or editing. Any use of clip art images on
Web sites must credit Discoveryschool.com or include a link to the
Discoveryschool.com Web site.
Icon
Bazaar
http://www.iconbazaar.com/
Lots of
clip art and animations. “Limited permission is granted for institutional use of
up to twenty (20) images in toto from these archives by WWW developers
representing not-for-profit organizations, governmental organizations or
educational institutions. Copyright notification should be included
wherever appropriate.”
Graphics
Libraries
http://www.net-ads.com/development/graphics.html
Nice
list of links to graphics libraries with extensive annotations of
each.
Amazing
Instant Online Animated 3D Text Maker
http://www.3dtextmaker.com/
Creates
a text banner with your own text, then you can save the image as you would any
other online image (right-click...). Animations only work on Web pages and
PowerPoint 2000 (and PowerPoint 97 if you have a special
plug-in).
Mira, which
stands for Media Image Resource Alliance, is an online stock image
service offered by Copyright Clearance Center, the largest licenser of
reproduction rights for text in the world. MIRA provides image buyers with the
opportunity to license high quality, rights-protected images for a wide variety
of uses. Includes photos from the Washington Post and cartoons from the New
Yorker. Free image research is
available from their archive experts.
The
largest graphics resource on the web—at last count, 1.2 million images. 3-day
free trial or $29.95/year for unlimited downloads. Includes clip art, photos, fonts,
WebArt, and sounds. Although ArtToday
content can be used in commercial or noncommercial projects, see
usage restrictions at: http://www.arttoday.com/PD-0025110/Main/company/Main/company/usage.
Note underneath the image used: © 2000-(current year)
www.arttoday.com
Aurora
Photos is a one-stop solution for researching, finding and buying
images.
Royalty-Free
http://www.corbisimages.com/search/ReadyToBuyEvents/fstDefault.asp
The sections of Corbis that allows use of its images on the Web and other publications (for a fee).
See
terms and conditions at http://www.bizpresenter.com/termsconditions.asp,
including the link to the BizPresenter License
Agreement.
Image
Search Engines - Resources to Use with Caution
Images found through the resources listed below can usually be used in your classroom under the Fair Use provision, but not necessarily for wider publication (like posting on the Web), unless you receive permission to use them from the copyright holder.
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Online/pictures.htm
http://www.thrall.org/proimage.html
Altavista
Image Search
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?cn=med
Click
the radial button next to "images." Type
in a key
word to find photos, graphics, buttons and banners. Provides
thumbnail pictures
(small version that loads quickly) that you can click to go to the page with the
original image. This image search engine is not filtered; students should not
use it unsupervised.
Go.com
Image Search
http://www.go.com/
Click
the images radial button before clicking search to search only for image files.
Provides thumbnail pictures.
Lycos
Multimedia Search
http://multimedia.lycos.com/
Click
the Pictures radial button. Provides thumbnail pictures.
Yahoo
Image Surfer
http://gallery.yahoo.com/
Search
engine, but also includes categories for images. Provides thumbnail pictures.
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
The fine
art search engine. Search by artist name, artwork by title, or art museums by
name or location. Or browse by movement, medium, subject, or nationality.
Wow. Images are not copyright-free.
See each individual museum site for usage restrictions.
Smithsonian
The
Smithsonian Institution ("SI"), and its Office of Printing & Photographic
Services ("OPPS") image files are made available for non-commercial, personal
use. Copying or redistribution in any manner for personal or corporate gain is
not permitted. Images may be put on a file server in one’s school, company,
museum, etc. only if there's no charge for the user. All the accompanying text
information, caption, etc. must be included, and must be presented completely
and unchanged. Images cannot be
placed on a CD-ROM, public domain or otherwise. See additional usage rules at:
http://www.si.edu/siphotos/CAPTIONS/oppsrules.html
*Other names and brands are the property of their respective owners.
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