Finding and Using Images

Search Engines & Directories
Open Access Web Sites
Imaging in Academia
Licensed by UC Libraries
Commercial Image Sources
Image Management
Fair Use Web Sites
Using Images
UC Specific Resources
Moving Image Resources
 

 

Search Engines & Directories

All the Web
http://www.alltheweb.com/

Google Advanced Image Search
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

*Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource
http://infomine.ucr.edu

*Internet Scout Project
http://scout.wisc.edu

Picsearch
http://www.picsearch.com/

Yahoo Advanced Image Search
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/advanced

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Licensed by UC Libraries

*AccuNet Associated Press Photo Archive
http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/

*Grove Dictionary of Art
http://www.groveart.com/index.html?authstatuscode=202

*Princeton Index of Christian Art
http://uclibs.org/PID/9563

*Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/



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Fair Use Web Sites

*Art Images for College Teaching (Minneapolis College of Art & Design)
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/

ArtServe (Australian National University)
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/

Cities/Buildings Database (University of Washington)
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/

Digital Archive of Architecture (Boston College)
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/default.html

Digital Imaging Project (Bluffton College)
http://www.bluffton.edu/%7Esullivanm/index/index.html

Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange
http://www.sah.org/imagex.html

University of California, Berkeley
Architecture Visual Resources Library
(SPIRO)
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro/

*World Art Kiosk (California State University)
http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/

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Open Access Web Sites

American Memory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/

Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/

Art Cyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Art History Network
http://www.arthistory.net/

Art History Resources on the Web (Sweet Briar College)
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ImageBase
http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/index.asp

Foto Marburg/Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur
http://www.bildindex.de/

Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/

Mark Harden's Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/

Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/

National Academy of Sciences
http://www.nas.edu/

National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov

New York Public Library Picture Collection
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/

PhotoGraphic Libraries
http://www.photographiclibraries.com/

*Rumsey Visual Collections
http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/

Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/

University of Texas Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps

World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art
http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/

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Commercial Image Sources

Art Resource (fine art stock photo archive for publication)
http://www.artres.com/

Artists Rights Society
http://www.arsny.com

Bridgeman Art Library
http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/

Corbis
http://pro.corbis.com/

GettyImages®
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx

*Image Providers Directory
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~beetham/vendor.htm

Two Cat Digital (for outsourcing scanning)
http://twocatdigital.com

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Moving Image Resources

Association of Moving Images Archivists
http://www.amianet.org/

Copyright and Licensing Resources - Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/film/copyrite.html

Frequently Asked Film and Video Copyright Questions - UCB Moffitt Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Copyright.html

Google Video
http://video.google.com/

*Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/about/about.php

Media Art Net
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/mediaartnet

Motion Picture Licensing Corporation
http://www.mplc.com/aboutLaw.php

Movie Licensing USA
http://www.movlic.com and link http://www.movlic.com/copyschool.html

Moving Image Collections
http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/

National Film Preservation Board
http://www.loc.gov/film/filmabou.html

National Film Registry
http://www.loc.gov/film/filmnfr.html

Netherlands Media Art Institute Online Catalogue
http://catalogue.montevideo.nl

Society for Cinema and Media Studies
http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Ubu Web
http://www.ubu.com/

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/index

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Using Images

Arts and Humanities Data Service - Visual Arts Guides to Good Practice
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/index.html

Baca, M. (Ed.). (2002). Introduction to Art Image Access Issues, Tools,
Standards, Strategies.
Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute.

*Basic Components of a Digital Image Library University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/vrcinfo/digital.htm

Besser, H. (2003). Introduction to Imaging. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute.

Best Practices for Image Capture
http://www.cdlib.org/news/pdf/BestPracticeImageCapture.pdf

Canadian Heritage Information Network Digital Content Development Resources
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html

Colorado Digitization Program
http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/index.cfm

*Copyright & Art Issues compiled by Christine L. Sundt, University of Oregon
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/

Slide Library Faculty Resources - Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/dido/sl/slide6.html

Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
National Information Standards Organization
http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html

*Introduction to Creating Effective Image PowerPoint Presentations
Eileen Fry, Indiana University, Bloomington
http://dido.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/dido/sl/Powerpoint2005.ppt

Lanzi, Elisa. (1998). Introduction to Vocabularies: Enhancing Access to
Cultural Heritage Information.
Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute.

National Humanities Alliance Basic Principles
for Managing Intellectual Property in a Digital Environment
http://www.nhalliance.org/ip/ip_principles.html

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage Guide to Good Practice
in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

Northeast Document Conservation Center Handbook for Digital Projects
http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm

*Quickstart Guide to Using PowerPoint – Knight Visual Resources Facility, Cornell
http://www.aapvrf.cornell.edu/KVRFpp.pdf

*Technical Advisory Service for Images
(Searching the Internet for Images, Toolbox, & A Review of Image Search Engines)
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/index.html

*Using PowerPoint to Create an Art History Presentation
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/pdf/Powerpoint_Manual.pdf

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Imaging in Academia

Adding Images to Websites Article
http://www.hnet.uci.edu/hirc/humtech/web.html

Art, Artifacts, and Slides: Digitization Opens Collections to New Audiences and Uses
by Dan Gordon, May 2003
http://www.ucop.edu/tltc/news/2003/05/feature.php

Art History Without Slides by Brock Read, January 2003
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i20/20a02901.htm

ARTstor
http://www.artstor.org/

ARTstor & UC Image Service: Integrating Images in Instruction Gets Easier
by Paula Murphy, December 2005
http://www.uctltc.org/news/2005/12/images.html

Associated Press Photographic Archive Article
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/archives/feb01.html

Burns, Maureen. "From Horse-drawn Wagon to Hot Rod: The University of
California's Digital Image Service Experience." Journal of Archival Organization 4,
no. 1/2 (2006): Prepublication article available online through ANTPAC

Burns, Maureen & Zimmerman, Loy (2002 Winter).
"If You Build It, Will They Come?" The Library of University of California
Images in Transition.Visual Resources Association Bulletin, 29 (4), 60-68.

Chandler, Robin L. "Building Digital Collections at the OAC: Current Strategies with a
View to Future Uses." Journal of Archival Organization 1, no. 1 (2002): 93-1-3.

Farley, Laine. "Digital Images Come of Age."
Syllabus Magazine (May 2004). E-Journal on-line. Available from
<http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=9363>. [13 July 2004].

Green, David. "Using Digital in Teaching and Learning:
Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions." Academic Commons (October 2006).
Available from <http://www.academiccommons.org/imagereport>. [30 October 2006]

Marmor, Max. "ArtSTOR: A Digital Library for the History of Art."
Journal of Library Administration 39, no. 2-3 (2003): 61-67.

Pisciotta, Henry. "Image Delivery and the Critical Masses."
Journal of Library Administration 39, no. 2-3 (2003): 123-138.

Pisciotta, Henry. "Understanding the Picture User."
Advances in Librarianship 29 (2005): 223-245.

Pitt, S.P., Updike, C.B., & Guthrie, M.E. (2002).
Integrating Digital Images into the Art and Art History Curriculum.
EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 25, 38-44 or PDF file at
http://educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0225.pdf

Rinehart, Richard. Museums and the Online Archive of California. First
Monday
7, no. 5 (May 2002). E-Journal on-line. Available from
<http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_5/rinehart/> [3 August 2004].

Waibel, Guenter. Out of the Database, Into the Classroom:
Findings From the Instructional Technology Advisory Group.
RLG Focus, no. 67 (2004). E-Journal on-line. Available at
<http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=17063#article2>. [13 July 2004]

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Image Management

Adobe Photoshop Album or Elements
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/main.html

*Extensis Portfolio
http://www.extensis.com/

GIMP (free)
http://www.gimp.org/

ImageAXS Pro (free)
http://gallery.sjsu.edu/tutorials/index.html

Irfanview (free)
http://www.irfanview.com/

iPhoto (for Macs)
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/

iView Media Pro (for Macs)
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/

Luna Imaging, Inc.
http://www.lunaimaging.com/index.html

*Madison Digital Image Database
http://mdid.org/mdidwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Microsoft Picture It
http://www.microsoft.com/products/imaging/

PhotoPlus (free)
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/ph/ph5/index.asp

*Picasa from Google
http://google.picasa.com/

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UC Specific Resources

California Digital Library
http://www.cdlib.org/

*HumaniTech (Copyright & Rules of Thumb for Images)
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/

Image Service Rollout and Advisory Committee
(with links to UC Image Service information and Insight guides)
http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/hops/israc/

*Library of University of California Images
http://vrc.ucr.edu/luci/index.html

*Museums and the Online Archive of California
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/ and http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

New Electronic Resources! Digital Image Collections
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/update/fall03.html#new

Systemwide Operations Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG), UC Libraries,
Digital Visual Resources Task Force Report (June 2003)
http://www.slp.ucop.edu/sopag/vrtf/

Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center
http://www.uctltc.org/index.html

*UC Image Service Information and Download
http://www.imageservice.cdlib.org/

*UC Image Service - SURVEYS
Faculty and Teaching Assistants
http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/imagesfacultyta.htm

UCB Museum Informatics Project
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mip/projects/digital.html

*UCI Digital Image Archive
http://www.arts.uci.edu/vrc/dia/index.html

UCI Libraries Art Subject Guide
http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subpage.php?subject=art

UCI Libraries - Images
http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subpage.php?subject=images

UCI Visual Resources Collection
http://www.arts.uci.edu/vrc/

UCLA Arts Library
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/websites/wwwart.htm

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