Images, Pictures & Sound
- Art Images for College Teaching
A personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator
Allan T. Kohl. It is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural
works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis. The images displayed on this
site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any
application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature. Categories range from
the ancient era to the 18th and 20th centuries and include works of non-western art.
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html
- Alta Vista Image Search
This is currently the most comprehensive database of images on the 'net,
with the best searching capability. AltaVista has combined the Corbis
photo database and other "collections" with indexed images
from the Web to provide millions of images.
http://www.altavista.com/image/default
- Best Information on the Net - Pictures
From the O'Keefe Library (St. Ambrose University), this site offers hundreds
of links to pictures on the Web including Art and Architecture images.
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Online/pictures.htm
- Flickr: Creative Commons
The Creative Commons section of Flickr allows browsing or searching for photographs
that are offered under a Creative Commons license which provides an alternative to
full copyright for shared photos. Refer to the Creative Commons symbol to determine
the rights to use photographs in each grouping.
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
- Google Image Search
"The most comprehensive image search on the web."
http://images.google.com/
- Public Health Image Library
"An extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia
files related to public health." Search by the categories of people,
places, science (includes diseases), or by keyword. There are links
to other image libraries. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/
- FindSounds
FindSounds.com is the leading Web search engine for finding sound effects
and sample sounds on the Web.
http://www.findsounds.com/
- The Freesound Project
A collaborative database of downloadable audio clips that are licensed under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License.
http://www.freesound.org/
