Images/Audio/Video/Textual & other Resources

Images and Image Collections

Free and Fair Use Images

AccuNet/AP Multimedia (CSUS library subscription)
An extensive collection of graphics, photos, text and audio from the Associated Press. The comprehensive site offers searches; a light box for comparing photos, graphs, or other graphics under consideration; and a guided tour of the site.
http://accuweather.ap.org/cgi-bin/aplaunch.pl

CIELO (California State University Image Exchange Library Online)
(CSUS Library subscription)
A core collection of digital images and text designed to support the art and architectural history survey courses taught in the California State University system.
http://cielo.calstate.edu/

CSUS Graphics Library
Direction arrows, banners, backgrounds, bullets, dividers, campus photos, CSUS seals, and photos of Sacramento.
http://www.csus.edu/web/graphics.html

CSUS Photographer - Sam Parsons
Campus photographs and original, digital photography on request.
parsonssg@csus.edu; 278-6917

Digital Juice (Available in the CSUS Center for Teaching and Learning in Library 4026)
Royalty-free images, backgrounds, and animations.
http://www.digitaljuice.com/index.asp

Elated.com
Free web buttons, animations, royalty-free stock photos, backgrounds, and icons.
http://www.elated.com/imagekits/

Free Images
Images are free for use in a project, publication or Web site, but may not be redistributed, archived, sold, or sub-licensed. A link to this site must be included. Subject matters include technology, transportation, light, nature, seasonal, space, planets, workplace, home, sports, and medical.
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

Google.com Image Search
Google's Image Search contains more than 425 million images indexed and available for viewing. The images identified by the Google Image Search service may be protected by copyrights.
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

The History Net
Broad collection of articles, with a photo gallery, focusing on the humanity of history. Start with a search for "photos."
http://www.historynet.com/aboutus/

Library of Congress Digital Collections & Programs (including the American Memory Project)
Of the millions of books, photographs, prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, maps, sound recordings, and motion pictures held by the Library, only a small fraction are in digital form. American Memory, the flagship of the Library's digital services, offers multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, motion pictures, and text from the American historical collections of the Library and other institutions. Currently, American Memory has more than 7.5 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. The Library's Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library.
http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum's collection contains more than two million works of art from all parts of the world, ancient through modern times. About 3,500 objects—fifty highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire department of European Paintings—can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword. Access to and use of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's image and text files and data on this site are subject to terms and conditions as specified.
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

MS DesignGalleryLive
Clip art collections with a search feature. Subjects include multiculturalism, animals, transportation, technology, business metaphors, office objects, space technology, and more.
http://dgl.microsoft.com/

MSWord Clip Art
Don’t forget to look in the clip art collection in the Microsoft Office programs.

NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U.S. Government agency whose mission is to "further mankind's knowledge of our universe." Available through the Web site are images, video, and television coverage of NASA activities and missions.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html

PhotoGraphic Libraries
The stock images, film and photo archives listed provide a creative source for television producers, advertising agencies, libraries, education centres, picture researchers and Photojournalist researching visual communications. The photographic library and archival resource contains national and private photographic collections. The Photographic Library Directory is a unique resource that provides a broad range of visual solutions to enhance the creative process.
http://www.photographiclibraries.com

University Media Services (UMS), California State University, Sacramento
Production and creative services for incorporating technology into teaching curriculum; instructional and presentational graphics such as maps, charts, graphs, drawing, and animation; instructional design and development; and video, audio, multi-media, and Web.
http://www.csus.edu/ums/

USGS
United States Geological Survey, a bureau of the Department of the Interior.
Access digital maps, photos, tables, seismogram displays, and more.
http://www.usgs.gov/picturingscience/collections.html http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/imagegallery/silverstream/pages/
pgcollectiondisplay.html

Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art contains over 11,600 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800.
http://www.wga.hu

Webshots
Free daily photos and Webshots desktop images. Also provides downloading, sharing and storing photos online, and free homepage for personal photo albums.
http://webshots.com/

Fee or Subscription-based Images

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
The AMICO Library™ is a growing online collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art in AMICO Member collections, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
http://www.amico.org/

ClipArt.com
Advertised as the “largest subscription-based graphics resource on the web.” Membership by the week, month, or year provides unlimited access to 2,500,000 clipart images, photos, and sounds; prices from $7.95.
http://clipart.com/en/index

Corbis
Resources for photographic images.
http://www.corbis.com/

Creatas
Photography, footage, illustration, and Flash.
http://www.creatas.com/home/default.htm

Dynamic Graphics
This company has offered royalty-free stock photos, footage, and illustrations since 1964 through subscription and individual usages.
http://www.dgusa.com/

Getty Images
Source for illustration, still images, and film. Getty used to maintain the eyewire.com Web site; now all imagery is on the Getty Images site.
http://www.gettyimages.com/

Photos.com
50,000 royalty-free photos. Subscriptions from one month to a year.
http://www.photos.com/en/index

Stock Photo
A comprehensive resource of licensed photos.
http://www.stockphoto.com/

United Press International (UPI) News Pictures
Memorable photographs captured daily by UPI's global network of photographers. UPI was one of the earliest wire services to include photographs as an integral part of its worldwide coverage. The creativity and talent of UPI's photographers builds on a rich legacy that includes seven Pulitzer Prizes in photojournalism. A Reprint and Permissions form is available under the Contact Us link.
http://www.upi.com/Newspictures/

Vintage Posters
Posters from previous eras of transportation, theatre, sports, advertising, travel, magazines, and more. Prices from under $5.00 to $500.00.
http://www.art.com/

Movies/Sound/Animation Resources

Free and Fair Use Resources

Audio & Video Clips – Tutorials
UCCS Web site providing tutorials on adding, editing, and deleting audio and video clips.
http://www.csus.edu/uccs/acadtech/tools/tutorials/

Digital Juice BackTraxx Music Library
(Available to sample in the CSUS Center for Teaching and Learning)
Over 1,000 Tracks in 28 Volume CD Library. Easy to use CD-ROM Track Index. 100% Royalty-Free - License Agreement.

FreeAudioClips.com
Audio clips in categories such as sound effects, movies and television, comedy, classic, pop, and jazz.
http://www.freeaudioclips.com/

Lycos Multimedia Search
Search engine of Lycos.com.
http://multimedia.lycos.com/

Moving Image Gateway
A British Uniiversities Film & Video Council service which collects together websites that relate to moving images and sound and their use in higher education.
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/

Sounddogs.com
Downloadable sound effects, samples, loops, and vocals. Royalty free music. Read the copyright notice for specific allowed usages.
http://www.sounddogs.com/

Fee or Subscription-based Resources

ArtBeats - Royalty Free Stock Footage
Fee-based retailer of film clips from history to special effects. http://www.artbeats.com/index.php

EarthStation1.com
History, WWI, WWII, television and movies, old time radio, religious and mystical themes, and outer space comprise some of the available audio materials available through this Web site.
http://www.earthstation1.com/

Educational Video
Extensive video library covering a wide range of subjects such as language, literature, science, multiculturalism, math, education and business, social studies/history, and religion.
http://www.libraryvideo.com/

Textual & Other Resources

Art: Selected References (CSUS Library Guide)
Contains links to some web resources to art.
http://library.csus.edu/guides/alicia/art.htm

Art History: Selected References (CSUS Library Guide)
Contains some art history web sites.
http://library.csus.edu/guides/alicia/art_history.htm

Electronic Resources
This Library of Congress site provides a selective list of reference resources.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/elecdesk.html

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) is the largest and most comprehensive reference work ever published in the biological sciences.
http://www.els.net/

Grove Dictionary of Art (CSUS library subscription)
The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Contains links to images on the Web. Click the Terms and Conditions link for information regarding permission to use images.
http://www.groveart.com/

Library of Congress
Prints and photographs are available through this publicly-supported institution. However, all of the materials are not in the public domain and may require permissions. Users must look into the kinds of rights which might apply to the usage of these materials: copyright, donor restrictions, licensing, privacy rights, publicity rights, and trademarks.
http://www.loc.gov/

MERLOT
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
An international cooperative for online resources for teaching and learning designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Membership is free. The site links to online learning materials including assignments. Categories include arts, humanities, social sciences, business, mathematics, education, and science and technology.
http://merlot.org/

Web Developer
This site has a free FAQs maker which will create a page of questions and answers for you and generate the HTML code. Extensive “How do I…” list for design and graphics, multimedia, servers, HTML, Java, etc.
http://www.webdeveloper.com/

Web Monkey
A web developers resource with tutorials on image production, JavaScript library, glossary, browser chart, and site tour.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

Yahoo!
An extensive directory listing references in the categories of Business & Economy, Computers & Internet, News & Media, Entertainment, Recreation & Sports, Health, Government, Regional, Society & Culture, Education, Arts & Humanities, Science, Social Science, and Reference. Because this directory links to a host of other web sites, each site will likely have their own conditions of use.
http://dir.yahoo.com/

Important Note:
It is recommended that you read the Terms of Use, Conditions, About Us, Rights, etc. on any site from which you would like to use images, sounds, or other materials. Copyright laws hold you responsible for knowing whether or not you have the right to use materials that you find on the Internet or in books or other media formats such as tapes, CDs, and DVDs. Refer to the CSUS Web site on copyright at http://www.csus.edu/uccs/acadtech/copyright.stm

Last Updated: April 27, 2006