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Image Resources at Otis
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Including Otis Library's Imaging Projects and subscription databases.
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Otis Digital Image Database for teaching and learning. Focus is on art and design history. (Otis Community only)
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Showcase for Otis collections and a repository for Otis archives. Images and materials from the Library, Galleries, Departments and Faculty. | |
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Searches Flickr CC-labeled images which may be used under certain conditions such as attribution. Check rights before use. You can also search directly through Flickr Advanced Search. |
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78,000 images contributed by art museums. (Otis Community only. Won't work if pop-up blocker is activated.) | |
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Resource on materials: polymers, glass, ceramics, carbon-based, cement-based materials, metals, natural materials, etc. | |
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Information service for the fashion and style industries. Over 300,000 pages up-to-the-minute international style intelligence. First time users, go here. (subscription database) | |
Other Image Resources Available on the Web |
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| Copyright/Royalty-Free Collections | Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries - Links to 12 US Government collections with images in the public domain. | |
| Stock.xchng - FREE royalty-free images. (Requires sign-up.) | ||
| Open Photo - Moderated photo community with the goal of uniting image consumers and producers through friendly Creative Commons licensing. (Royalty-free images, many of which are free.) | ||
| Open Clip Art Library - Clip art images available for downloading and remixing; all images are in the public domain. | ||
| Flickr Creative Commons - Searches Flickr CC-labeled images which may be used under certain conditions such as attribution. Check rights before use. You can also search directly through Flickr Advanced Search. | ||
| Architecture and Urban Design | ArchNet - Collection of images, books, maps, drawings, and more of architecture and urban design in the Muslim world. | |
| SAH Image Exchange - Pilot project by the Society of Architectural Historians for educators to share images. | ||
| Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - Slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall. Some large, some not. | ||
| Art and Art History | Artchive (not all are large images) | |
| Web Gallery of Art (European painting and sculpture) | ||
| Saskia (we have purchased hundreds of images from them already, but there may be some we still need.) | ||
| Victoria and Albert Museum | ||
| World Images | ||
| Printing and Book Arts | Database of Bookbindings - Produced by the British Library. | |
| Papyrus Collection - The University of Michigan has made its large collection of papyrus fragments available digitally. | ||
| Historical Images and Documents | American Memory Project - Powered by the Library of Congress, the site offers access to images and documents of US history from different institutions. | |
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Calisphere - The California Digital Library offers this collection of images of California history. (Images vary in size.) |
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| Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection - The online catalog contains many images of items from their collection, some of which are public domain. | ||
| Historical Anatomies on the Web - The National Libraries of Medicine has posted excellent images from many antique books on anatomy. | ||
| Visible Earth - NASA project. Some of these images may also be available in NIX (NASA Image Exchange), which is available through the Otis DID. | ||
| Civil Rights Digital Library | ||
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