Research Guides: Library & Information Science: Images

Images

The Steve Museum
"Steve” is a collaborative research project exploring the potential for user-generated descriptions of the subjects of works of art to improve access to museum collections and encourage engagement with cultural content.
more...less...
Composed of a group of volunteers, primarily from art museums, who share a common interest in improving access to our collections.
Wikimedia Commons
The Wikimedia Commons is a resource of Free- and Fair-Use digital image collections that are available for anyone to use for personal or educational purposes.
Flickr - The Commons
World's public photography collection/archive. Library of Congress, various museums, and libraries have also posted photographs for you to view.
Biology Image Library
The Image Database
Provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more including images to support science, technology and medicine.
Visual Literacy
Visual Literacy is increasingly important. Finding appropriate images, citing them accurately and noting copyright and attribution can be complex. These resources and others found on the Visual Literacy Subject Guide will assist you in these efforts.

The ARTstor

UCI Access Only

ARTstor
The UCI Libraries are providing campus-wide access to a new image management tool for research and teaching.
more...less...
While the name might imply that this service is only useful for art, it has broad applications for any discipline which relies on images for research and teaching. Researchers will be able to upload their personal digital image collections to create databases that will allow them to organize and retrieve images and to add personal research notes. Instructors will be able to upload their personal image collections for lectures and to utilize various pedagogical tools for displaying and presenting images. The tool also has a password-protection feature so that access to images can be limited to different groups of researchers or students.
ARTstor Guide
ARTstor Quick-Start Guide
Hartill Collection
The Hartill collection contains 16,660 images of art and architecture (strong in architecture and architectural decoration, especially Medieval) covering the history of the Western world from antiquity through contemporary.
Pictures of Record
Digital images, essays, and bibliographies in the subject areas of: anthropology, archaeology, art history, political science, biology, architecture, and others
Saskia
Over 27,000 digital images, with a special emphasis on core images required for teaching the history of Western Art. Images available in ARTstor.
SMART Imagebase
SMART Imagebase is a collection of thousands of high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.