Images and Animations
Quick Links
The purpose of this guide is to collect, organize, and describe recommended resources for finding and processing images and animations that can be used by TAMU faculty and students for noncommercial educational purposes, such as in classroom lectures and presentations, Web-based courseware, research, and personal scholarship.
Fair Use Guidelines
- Noncommercial, educational use
- Proper attribution of source
- Read specific licensing rules and permissions of each image resource before any editing or alteration of the images or their distribution beyond the classroom
General Resources
- Ebsco Image Library To access the image library, click on the Images link in the More drop-down menu at the top of the search screen.
- eLibrary Curriculum edition
- Google Image Search
- Historical Newspapers - ProQuest Historical Newspapers | America's Historical Newspapers | Dallas Morning News Historical Archive
- IMLS Digital Collections - Institute of Museum and Library Services Digital Collections
- Internet Archive (Online) Moving Image Archive
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Catalog
- MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- OAIster
- Yahoo Image Search
Image Resources by Subject
Arts and Architecture
Artstor | Great Buildings Collection | more
History, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Accessible Archives | American Memory | Smithsonian Image Gallery | Vanderbilt Television News Archive | Visual History Archive (Shoah) | Perseus Art and Archaeology (online) | more
Life Sciences
AnatomyTV | Biology Image Library | images.MD | Illustrata Natural Sciences | SMART Image Database | more
Science and Technology
Illustrata Natural Sciences | US Patent and Trade Office | more