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2.4.14 Where can I find images on the web?
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There are some sources of images which may be used free
of charge for educational purposes.
These include:
- AICT
(Art Images for College Teaching): this is a royalty-free image
resource for the
educational community
- DHD
photo gallery: over 13,000 very varied images, clip-art, sounds
and video clips (from
carbon resister strips to Victoria Falls) which may be used subject to very reasonable terms
and conditions
- FreeFoto.com: over 67,000 images in 117 sections, available for non-commercial use
subject to FreeFoto terms
and conditions
- Flickr hosts a huge and growing library of photographs submitted by individuals. It
is
possible to search for images with
Creative Commons licences allowing educational use.
- FreeImages.co.uk: over 2,500 photographs which may be freely used or adapted for use on
web sites or in publications, under FreeImages
terms and conditions which include that a
credit/link is given to the site
- Pics4Learning: copyright-friendly images for education. The site is aimed at primary
and
secondary education teachers but the images available are broad in range and applicability.
- Visual
Arts Data Service : access to collections of images which may
be used for research
or teaching purposes but if used for teaching must be restricted so that access is only
available to students who have signed an appropriate undertaking – see VADS
conditions
for use
- Philip’s
House of Stock Photography (www.photo.net/stock/): This site provides many free
images and also provides links to other free image sites.
- NASA http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html
- As with most US government agency
web sites, NASA allows the use of NASA imagery, video and audio material (except the
NASA insignia logo) for educational or informational purposes provided proper credit is
included. The terms of use are set out at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/policies.html. For a full
list of US government graphics and photographs available, see
http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
- Botanical
Society of America Online Image Collection: education images
on botany for
instructional use
- Earth
Science World Imagebank (http://www.earthscienceworld.org/): is a service provided
by the American Geological Institute designed to provide quality geoscience images to the
public, educators, and the geoscience community. Most of the images are available free of
charge for educational purposes, provided the straightforward terms of use are followed
(http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/imageuse.html).
- The
Centre for Bioscience ImageBank: thousands of images are available
free of charge with
copyright cleared for educational use, with due acknowledgement.
- Geology
by lightplane – 335 colour aerial images of landforms and
geological features (in
USA), taken from a small aircraft, free for non-commercial educational use
- Graphic
Maps (www.graphicmaps.com) – free images of maps, flags and globes. (The site
also contains many maps and images available for a fee, but the free ones are easy to
find).
- Health
Education Assets Library: a digital library providing freely
accessible digital teaching
materials aimed to meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
- Microsoft
ClipArt Gallery - copyright free images if you have Microsoft
Office software legally
installed on your computer. This is a searchable gallery of thousands of images.
Note: Do not forget to read the licence information on
each site. A web page which promotes a
department, as opposed to being part of teaching materials, may or may not be considered
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Information current as at 12 September 2005.
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