LibGuides: Digital Images: Image Databases and Search Engines

Free Image Databases

ArtBabel A website that showcases art-related video content for art educators.
Art Images for College Teaching Art images in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community.
Digital Public Library of America Digital access to materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.
Flickr: Creative Commons Using Flickr under the Creative Commons license, images may be used, edited, copied or distributed provided the owner is credited.
Flickr: The Commons Flikr, in association with the Library of Congress, had launched The Commons to help increase access to publicly-held photography collections. Participating institutions have contributed photographs with "no known copyright restrictions".
Fotopedia Fusions of text and image covering thousands of topics, from travel, culture and wildlife to food, entertainment and more. Browse them as a magazine, find them on the map or create and share your own.
Internet Archive Library of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
MorgueFile Contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. To acknowledge the artist's accomplishments, morgeFile asks that you credit the photographer when possible.
Ohio Digital Network (ODN) Digital Collections from Ohio Libraries, Museums, and Archives.
Ohio Memory Digital collections from Ohio.
Open Clip Art Library OCAL claims to be the largest collaborative community that creates, shares and remixes clipart. All clipart is released to the public domain and may be used in any project for free with no restrictions.
Pixabay A repository of public domain images.
Wikimedia Commons A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips).

OhioLINK Databases

Art Full Text [1984- ] Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. [OhioLINK]
Art Index Retrospective [1929-1984] Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. [OhioLINK]

Search Engines

These search freely licensed photos, from many sources, and present them in an integrated list.

Everystockphoto.com A search engine for freely licensed photos, and acts as a portal for stock photography.
Google Advanced Image Search Under "Settings" and "Usage Rights" choose the restrictions appropriate for your project.
Tin Eye A reverse image search engine. It can help find the source of an unknown file, or higher quality examples of that same image.
Yahoo Images Search Offers image searching capabilities similar to Google's, but across different collections of images.

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Free Image Databases

OhioLINK Databases

Search Engines