Finding images on the Internet
EIS Presentation
November 16, 2001
Monica Berger, NYC Technical College
Madeline Ford, Hunter College
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Articles
Searching for images
Designing with electronic
images
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Guides
Invisible web: images
by subject
Multipurpose guides
Copyright
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| Image Search Engines |
Invisible web by subject
Advertising images
Fine and applied arts images
Historic images
Miscellaneous
Medical
Nature
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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.
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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:
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.
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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
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Invisible web by subject
Advertising images
Ad*Access 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 ...
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