General Resources: How to find images on the internet

Here is a good source of information to find virtually any image you can think of on the wonderful and amazing world of internet. Beware some of them might be copyrighted, or have a creative common license; some others might ask you for a few bucks, but the choice is yours.

Option 1 - search engine 

• Ask image search
• Google advanced image search 
• Yahoo image search

Option 2 - Creative Common Images 

• Creative Commons Web site 
• Creative Commons image search 
• Google Creative Commons search
• Yahoo Creative Commons search 
• everystockphoto.com is a search engine for creative commons photos, located in Vancouver

Option 3 - Free stock image collections

• DeviantART 
• FreeFoto.com 
• Free Images.co.uk 
• Imageafter 
• MorgueFile (The term “morgue file” is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats) 
• OpenPhoto.Net 
• Stock.xchng 

Option 4 - Media Sources

• AFP (Agence France-Presse)  
• Empics (Press Association) 
• Nettizen Online Newspaper Directory 
• News Directory, a guide to all online English-language media (worldwide), over 3,600 newspapers, 4,800 magazines, hundreds of television stations plus colleges, visitor bureaus, governmental agencies, travel links, and comics ; more than 14,500 links in all 
• NI (News International) Syndication 
• Reuters

Option 5 - Photojournalist resources

• Association of Photographers 
• EPUK (Editorial Photographers United Kingdom & Ireland) 
• NPPA (National Press Photographers Association) 
• NUJ (National Union of Journalists) 
• World Press Photo

Option 6 - Commercial images

• About the Image blog 
• BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies) 
• BigStockPhoto 
• Big White Box 
• Clipart.com 
• Corbis 
• Getty Images 
• Fotolia 
• iStockPhoto 
• Jupiterimages Unlimited 
• PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) 
• Stockxpert

 Option 7 -Historical Images

• UNESCO’s Archival Portal, an enormous portal to archives around the world, a bit overwhelming. 
• UK Public Libraries Page, access to images available at local libraries in the UK 
• UK Higher Education and Research Libraries
• Sensitive Map
• Libweb, a portal to 7500 libraries in 135 countries which contain of course images 
• 24hourmuseum, a virtual UK museum 
• Cornucopia, an online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK’s museums, galleries, archives and libraries 
• Virtual Library Museums Pages
• EIG (Education Image Gallery), nice resource for schools 
• EnrichUK, a searchable portal linking 150 websites that have been supported with Lottery good causes money from the UK 
• BBC History 
• PBS History, some pictures, but mainly movies ; still a nice portal with lots of material including teacher resources (PBS, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is a non–profit media enterprise owned and operated by the nation’s 348 public television stations) 
• Scran, part of the Scran Trust – a registered charity – whose aim is to provide educational access to digital materials representing our material culture and history 
• British History Online 
• Best of History Web Sites 
• Voice of the Shuttle

  Option 8 -Museums and Art galleries

• 24hourmuseum 
• Art Guide, the comprehensive internet guide to the art collections of Great Britain and Ireland 
• Art Museum Network, up-to-date information about the news and activities of more than 200 leading museums around the world including news about the exhibitions, acquisitions, and programs of institutions, and links to all members ; so indirect access to image collections worldwide (well most are American, but other countries are represented as well) 
• Cornucopia 
• Virtual Library Museums Pages 
• Artnet.com, actually a place to buy, sell and research fine art online, with over 1,200 galleries in over 250 cities worldwide, more than 100,000 works by over 25,000 artists from around the globe represented on this site ; so lots of art images 
• AskArt, a comprehensive source for information on contemporary American artists 
• Gallery Channel, a nice site with information on 8,400 exhibition venues, 21,400 exhibitions and 25,600 artists worldwide – all available for public view, a nice site, easy to access 
• British Museum 
• Hermitage, a famous museum along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg, Russia 
• Louvre 
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, near Central Park, New York 
• Museum of Modern Art, also in New York between 5th and 6th street 
• National Gallery in London 
• National Gallery of Art, Washington 
• Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art. All works can be found on this site. 
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• AHDS Visual Arts  
• American Memory, part of the Library of Congress 
• Art Resource 
• ARTstor, aimed at Canadian and American institutions
• Bridgeman Education, also aimed at institutions
• David Rumsey Visual Collections, both free and subscription based collections
• Courtauld Art and Architecture collection  
• Grove Art
• OAIster 
• RLG Camio 
• RLG Cultural Materials 
• Scholars Resource, lots of teacher resources 
• Art History Resources on the Web 
• AICT, Art Images for College Teaching 
• Artcyclopedia 
• Smithsonian Art and Design 
• UCLA Arts Library Sources
• ULAN, Union List of Artist Names, search using structured vocabularies (Part of Getty Museum website) 
• WorldArt Web Kiosk, access the Californian University image database

  Option 9 -Architecture and buildings

• Great Buildings Online
• Index of Art Historical Sites 
• RIBApix

  Option 10 -Scientific images (Earth Sciences, Medicine, Botany...)

• BIOME (Life Sciences, Health and Medicine)  
• EEVL (Engineering, Mathematics and Computing)  
• Gesource (Geography and Environment) 
• PSIgate (Physical Sciences) (In the future RDN is to be found at Intute)  
• Science and Society Picture Library (UK based)
• Science Photo Library
• ScienceImage
• Science.gov (USA government)
• US Government Resources for Science Images
•  USA Centres for Disease Control (CDC) Public Health Image Library
• Hubble Space Telescope
• NASA 
• NOAA, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  
• USDA, US Department of Agriculture  
• USDoD, US Department of Defense  
• USDOE, US Department of Energy
• USFWS, US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Anatline, a web-based interface for viewing high resolution anatomical images 
• Bristol Biomed Image Archive, only for Athens member institutions (if your institution is not a member, you can apply via the website)  
• Images from the History of Medicine, website of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Karolinska Institutet, images provided by Sweden’s largest medical university
• Medical Images on the Web, overview of medical image databases provided by the University of Nebraska
• MPL Medical Photographic Library 
• TDR Image Library with a focus on tropical diseases
• Viperlib Visual Perception Images, images related to visual perception (obviously…)
• Weill Cornell Medical Library directory
• Arkive,the Noah’s Ark for the Internet era – a unique global initiative, gathering together into one centralised digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species  
• Agripicture picture library, a select diverse collection of generic farming images
• Biodidac, Biological Images  
• Canon Photo Gallery, part World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
• ImageBank, Higher Education Academy, Centre for Bioscience, UK
• Botanical Society of America, online image collection drawings actually
• American Geological Institute Earth Science World Image Bank 
• Geo-Images Project maintained at Berkeley University by G. Donald Bain, Director of the Geography Computing Facility
• Picture Library of the famous Geological Society of London
  National (UK) Archive of Geological Photographs 

   Option 10 -Map resources

• Bodleian Library’s Map Room 
• Odden’s Bookmarks
• National Geographic Maps 
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection from the University of Texas
• David Rumsey Map Collection if you like historical maps
• DEMIS World Map Server, a software program to generate maps (not for free…)
• Online Map Creation (OMC) Tool, a software package to create high-quality postscript maps in various projections (free) 
• Timemap TMJava is a novel mapping applet which generates complete interactive maps with a few simple lines of html, and… an open source project of the University of Sydney 
• Earthbrowser, software application allowing you to browse the surface of our blue planet (free trial, rated at 23.95$ with updates), including webcams, satellite updates, etc. 
• Atlas of Cyberspace, an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces, interesting site
• And last but not least Google earth