Finding images on the Internet

Finding images on the Internet EIS Presentation November 16, 2001 Monica Berger, NYC Technical College Madeline Ford, Hunter College
Articles Searching for images Designing with electronic images	Guides Invisible web: images by subject Multipurpose guides Copyright
Image Search Engines	Invisible web by subject Advertising images Fine and applied arts images Historic images Miscellaneous Medical Nature
Articles Searching for images The Big Picture: Turning Visual: Image Search Engines on the Web by Paula Berinstein Source: ONLINE, January 1998. Berinstein has written a very useful article discussing how image search engines work. A list of image search engines is included in this article with a description of each search engine. Designing with electronic images Optimize Images for the Web Using Photoshop by Brian Chamberlain Source: ZDNet Article provided by ZDNet.com written by Brian Chamberlain discusses the use of Photoshop when using GIF and JPEG image files.
Guides Invisible web: images by subject Finding Images Online This guide provides a long list arranged alphabetically by subject. A range of choices is available from Anatomy to Volcanoes. Additional links to usenet groups and search engines also included. Multipurpose guides including invisible web, general and image search engines Boston University Libraries "Finding Images on the Web" Clip Art and Image Search http://www.websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/cs/clipartimages/ This is another site compiled by About.com. Provides links to several web search engines specifically for finding images on the web. Finding Images on the Internet Lanchester Library (UK) Search engines and invisible web collections: Sites A-B Sites C-J Sites K-Z Georgetown University Picture This: Finding Web Images About.com compiles this site. Provides descriptions of the major search engines and directories available on the web to locate images. Also included at this site are links to specialized image search engines and to invisible web image databases and collections. Copyright Copyright Resources on the Internet Guide to copyright information.
Image Search Engines All the web multimedia engine Advanced search allows user to select: Transparent Backgrounds; Formats: All JPEG GIF BMP; Types: All Color Gray Line Art. AltaVista Image Search Amazing Picture Machine Clip Art Searcher (WebPlaces.com) Google Image Search Image Surfer - Yahoo Browseable. Mostly proprietary/copyrighted images from Corbis. Image Finder (UC Berkeley) Image Searching Resources (The Mining Co.) Image Surfer (Yahoo) Snap Picture Finder Web Clip Art Search Engine Provides search forms for several search engines on one page
Invisible web by subject Advertising images AdAccess Search "...presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955." Collection can also be browsed. Fine and applied arts images* Art History Resources on the Web ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Database ArtServe "...offers access to around 120,000 images - i.e. some 34Gb of data - all concerned in some way with the history of art and architecture, and the great majority unavailable elsewhere on the Web." Exploring Image Collections on the Internet: Resources at MIT and Beyond Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Locating Visual Images, University of Maryland Libraries This site provides an entire section dedicated to Internet sources available for locating art and design-related images or providing image files. Also includes valuable information on using print sources. Looksmart Art History Image Archives SILS - Art Image Browser, University of Michigan SPIRO, University of California, Berkeley SYMBOLS.com - Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms WebMuseum, Paris Historic images Smithsonian Institution Collection Image Database "...contains images of objects from across the Smithsonian--museums, archives, and libraries...more than 15,000 images." Miscellaneous Imagebase of U.S. Stamps Before 1995 Medical Images from the History of Medicine (NLM) Nature NOAA Photo Library (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) 16,000 images of weather, fish and ...