Materials Science: Images

The collection highlights include animal world, art and design, bones and fossils, history and material culture, literature, natural world, plants and flowers, protraits, science and invention, scientific instruments and apparatus, society and culture, technology and transportation, and trade literature.

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.