CHECKLIST FOR EVALUATING A WEB PAGE:
* Identify the author and the author's expertise on the topic.
* Verify the facts, statistics, or quotes on the web page in another source.
* Identify the agenda of the page: are they selling something or promoting a point-of-view that benefits them?
* Check to see when the page was last updated. If you can't find a date, consider using a different source.
DO THE ABOVE BECAUSE:
* Most people don't know what they are talking about.
* Many people will make up facts, misrepresent facts, or leave out facts in order to support their position.
* People will tell you anything if money or power is somehow involved.
AND IN THE END:
* Learn to think for yourself and do not rely on gathering other people's opinions posted on the internet.
These are links to Creative Commons sites to find images and other media. Creative commons means they have media that is free to use without copyright restrictions for publication or commerical purposes.
There are sites linked off of these sites that may not be totally copyright free so be careful! Don't forget to read the terms of use for the sites where you ultimately end up finding your images.
Open Access Music Sites
Some of these websites have open access or public domain images. A few on the list are Met Museum, Cornell University Library - Registry of Digital Collections, Discover Yale Digital Content, Shared Shelf Commons, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Getty Search Gateway, Met Museum, and National Gallery of Art | NGA Images, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has copyright free images.
New York Public Library has public domain images searchable by color, century created, genre, and collection in a cool visualization tool. There is also the The Public Domain Review and the Public Domain I mage Archive. NASA Image and Video Library has very high resolution images of space and space related content. Most images are not copyrighted. Please read their Media Usage Guidelines.
Europeana has public domain and Creative Commons licensed images, texts, music, and video from libraries, museums, and other educational institutions all over Europe.
Please contact me if you aren't sure about the permitted use of an image, or if you need help finding and using copyrighted or Creative Commons licensed images, or if you want to give your own work a Creative Commons license.
ACRL's Digital Images Collection Guide | "A curated bibliography of quality digital image collections spanning ~85 subjects, including ~950 digital collections, that have been culled primarily from the LibGuides Community, and several subject areas have been further refined by 20 subject liaison librarians at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. To browse by 8 general discipline areas see: https://www.lib.umn.edu/media/imageguide (non-editable). The goal of the site is to share this work with the visual resources community, hopefully making the resource stronger through participation for others to repurpose."
Artdaily.org | Online fine art newspaper since 1996.
Artfinder | Provides access to hundreds of thousands of paintings from artists, galleries, museums and collections around the world. With our growing number of images, artist biographies, guides and articles, learning about your favourite artists and works, and discovering new ones, has never been easier. With Artfinder, you can start building your own art profile, receive personalised recommendations based on the art you like, and share and discuss art with friends via Facebook and Twitter.
Art History Resources on the Web | Professor Christopher Witcombe from Sweet Briar College has put together a page of art history links including prehistoric art up through contemporary art. He also has links that divide the art by region. There are links to research resources and other miscellaneous useful art links.
Art Resource | Art Resource is the world's largest fine art stock photo archive, with more than 500,000 searchable fine art images from the world's leading sources, available for licensing to all media.
ArtSource | This is a network of resources on Art and Architecture; includes links to other art-related web sites as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, art historians, and others.
ART SY | Requries invite but has nice resolution, fine art images from galleries, museums, and other institutions. It lets you see info about the work of art, sometimes in a room view, save works of art to your account, and lets you zoom in on the art work. Could be used as a presentation tool.
Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Wallace Center at the Rochester Institute of Technology
The Cary Collection also manages the Graphic Design Archive, comprised of some 36 archives documenting the work of important 20th-century Modernist graphic designers, and has been aggressively acquiring examples of avant-garde book typography.
Cornell University Library - Registry of Digital Collections
Digital Art History Directory (DAHD)
Digital Collections of the Chicago History Museum
The Duchamp Research Portal is an online platform that aggregates a selection of digitized archival holdings and museum collections at three partner institutions to make a significant portion of primary source materials related to Marcel Duchamp accessible and discoverable through a single interface.
Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the millions of items on Europeana. These objects include:
Feminist art/contemporary women artists in 35 countries MA and PhD Theses.
Feminist-art-topics – 940 artworks in 30 topics.
Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Getty Search Gateway or Getty Open Content Program
The Open Content Program makes high-resolution images of public domain artwork from the Getty collections freely available, without restrictions, to advance the research, teaching, and practice of art and art history. The initiative also aims to support and promote the open-access movement among museums and cultural heritage institutions in removing barriers to the use of cultural heritage images. Since 2013 images of over 150,000 images of public-domain art and archives in the Getty collections have been made freely available. Cataloging, digitization, rights review, and publishing of the collections are ongoing, adding more images to the Program monthly. Images in the Open Content Program regularly appear in academic and commercial publications, products and merchandise, and movies and TV.
Google Image Search | Great for when you just need a simple image fast for a paper or collage. But remember it is the Web so the resolution is usually very small so the quality of the image is not that great. Also, if you plan to publish or display the image you use, you should contact the person who made the image to make sure it is OK. Many images on the Web are copyrighted.
Indianapolis Museum of Art | The new online collection offers a visually rich platform with over 33,000 high-quality images available for viewing and high-res zooming capabilities to provide detailed views of assorted works. A hallmark of the new website is the 21,000 images now available for high-res download, providing open access to imagery for any personal, scholarly or commercial use. Multiple views of many three-dimensional works are also available to provide a unique online viewing experience for the site user. Read about their Terms of Use and how to request to use reproductions.
International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | The ICAA Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive provides access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.
Internet Archive | A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
LUNA | Images, Video, Audio from the University of Colorado Digital Library
From the site: "Whereas pictures can be satisfactorily represented in two dimensions on a computer screen, space -- especially Gothic space -- demands a different approach, one which embraces not only the architectonic volume but also time and narrative. Mapping Gothic France builds upon a theoretical framework derived from the work of Henri Lefèbvre (The Production of Space) that seeks to establish linkages between the architectural space of individual buildings, geo-political space, and the social space resulting from the interaction (collaboration and conflict) between multiple agents -- builders and users.
"Mapping Gothic France will, we hope, become a vital educational and research tool for both students and scholars. We invite you to explore the site, and welcome both your comments and scholarly contributions to the narratives." Brought to you by Vassar's Andrew Tallon and Columbia's Stephen Murray.Mapping the Moon in Black and White - A Harvard Map Collection Digital Exhibition | Includes timeline with images of the moon
The McNay Art Museum Online Collection Database | Since Marion Koogler McNay’s bequest in 1950, the museum’s collection has expanded to include nearly 20,000 works. Our online collection database currently features selections from our holdings, with an emphasis on our collection’s strengths. More object records are regularly being added to the searchable database.
Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database | This website was created to collect, host and display images made by travelers, mapmakers, historians, architects and artists of medieval and early modern monuments and cities of Southern Italy. It includes prints, drawings, ground plans and elevations, paintings, photographs, and any other type of image of sites from roughly 1100 to 1450. The image sources include public and private collections, museums, libraries and archives, print books, and online resources.
You can access the unrestricted images through the Met’s website. As you search its collection, all you need to do is check off the “Public Domain Artworks” option under “Show Only.” You can also browse the selected works by selecting the “Metropolitan Museum of Art” filter on the Creative Commons site.
Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium | The Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium includes herbaria from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and D.C. The Consortium serves as the portal for the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis Project. We invite any Mid-Atlantic herbaria to join us online in digitizing the rich resources that are our regional plant collections. We also welcome citizen scientists, amateur botanists, and plant enthusiasts to add to our observation records with your own field data and images, or to contribute to our project by joining us in our specimen transcription efforts through a crowd sourcing module.
Moving Image Archive | A collection of downloadable movies, newscasts, and videos covering topics such as computers and technology, arts and music, animation and cartoons, full-length feature films and more.
Moving Image Source | "The Moving Image Source Research Guide is a gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media"
NASA Image and Video Library | Very high resolution images of space and space related content. Most images are not copyrighted. Please read their Media Usage Guidelines.
National Gallery of Art | NGA Images | NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
OCAD University Zine Collection | Established in 2007, the OCAD University Zine Library is an ever-growing collection of self-published and handmade objects located in the OCAD University Library's Learning Zone. The collection was created to inspire, educate and entertain, to encourage collaboration between OCAD U students and to open up the world of zines for readers and creators everywhere! Learn more about our collection and its history.
OCULI MUNDI | Oculi Mundi is a digital heritage destination: the home of The Sunderland Collection of world maps, celestial maps, atlases, globes and books of knowledge.
Pictify | The global home for sharing your favourite artworks, seeing other people’s, adding your comments, and building your own collection of favourite paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings, or any other art medium. Through Pictify you can share all art from the earliest cave drawings, the Renaissance, Old Masters and Impressionists to art works created today. If you love art and want to share it with millions of other people all over the world Get Started now on Pictify.
Print Council of America | This website includes a “Search Oeuvre Catalogue” where you can type in the name of an artist and it will cite sources for their print works only, especially print catalogues raisonne. You would then have to check our online catalog. If we don’t own, request via interlibrary loan.
Public Domain Image Archive | The Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA) — brought to you by The Public Domain Review (PDR) — is a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse. Our aim is to offer a platform that will serve both as a practical resource and a place to simply wander — an ever-growing portal to discover more than 2000 years of visual culture.
The Public Domain Review | "Collections of films, audio, images and texts which are no longer protected by copyright. Trawling through the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons and other such sites, we bring you a continuously growing and curated slice of what the public domain has to offer. Most material featured is in the public domain worldwide but the rights status of some works (particular films) may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so do check before reusing."
Rijksmuseum- Amsterdam | Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum with copyright free images to use as you please!
Shared Shelf Commons | Shared Shelf Commons is a free, open-access library of images. Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images.
Smithsonian Collections Search Center | The Collections Search Center provides easy "one-stop searching" of more than 2 million of the Smithsonian's museum, archives, library and research holdings and collections. The access to more Smithsonian collections via this Search Center is increasing over time.
Students' Guide to Italian Renaissance Architecture | This interactive survey of Italian Renaissance architecture is presented within a cultural and historical context. Extensive use of explanatory graphics makes the content easier to understand.
Unsplash | The internet’s source of freely-usable images.
Search the Collections is a working database providing online access to over a million catalogue records and over half a million images of objects in our collections. We make as much information available as we can and continually enrich and update the database. New text and images are added each month. Please see their Terms Of Use
The V&A's collections also include the National Art Library, the Archive of Art and Design, and the library collections of the Theatre & Performance Department. These are catalogued on a separate library database http://catalogue.nal.vam.ac.uk/
Your Paintings | Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country. Your Paintings is a joint initiative between the BBC, the Public Catalogue Foundation (a registered charity) and participating collections and museums from across the UK. You can create your own collection of paintings and add tags.