We live in an increasingly visual culture, where a powerful image can be an effective way to create engagement with teaching presentations and elearning content. A quick trawl of the web would suggest that loads of visual materials are available freely at your fingertips, but these may not necessarily be academically sound or of high quality. Carlie Nekrasov breaks down how to find images through the Library's database.
- What are the copyright requirements? i.e. what are the terms/conditions associated with using particular images?
There is a better way
Forget about attempting to navigate these questions via a Google Images search. The library provides access to hundreds of thousands of high resolution images within databases that have been copyright cleared for educational use (which means they can be used for teaching purposes or within moodle sites, just not in a wider context such as in publications and/or open access materials). We have also created a dedicated Digital Images Library Guide.
Once you bookmark these resources it becomes easier to source images for teaching purposes as you are not required to hunt down permissions and agreeable terms/conditions.
First Stop: Digital Images Library Guide
The Digital Images library guide is a whole guide dedicated to the use of images within the academic environment, so dive in and take a look here. It is a treasure trove for researchers and teachers, including information on image search engines, databases, open access images, citing images, tools for editing and how to comply with copyright.
Explore the library’s most extensive image databases:
ARTstor is a stellar image database containing an extensive collection of millions of images from 290 collections around the world. So if you are putting together a presentation on ancient cultures, ARTstor has you covered with a high resolution image of an ancient Egyptian mural painting circa 1400 B.C.
Other gems available via this database include; Kandinsky paintings, photographs of Andy Warhol’s brillo boxes and classical medieval manuscripts to name just a few. Along with arts subjects there is also access to images related to science and technology, geography, and many more subject areas. The keyword searching feature helps you to refine your results, and the easily exportable citations in various styles and functions enable you to use it with PowerPoint and embed image details with captions directly into your presentations.
Click here to explore the database.
Bridgeman Education provides access to over 1.2 million digital images ready for you to use and copyright cleared for educational use. Some of the subject areas include art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists.
Click here to explore the database.
Further help?
Contact the MADA Subject Librarian or the Copyright Advisor for further advice on where to find images and how to use them when creating academic materials.
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