Library Research Services

• Research help both in-person and online
• Get a Library card!
• Start at the Library website

Searching the Library

• Use the Library catalog
• What you'll find: Books, videos, audio, software, models and other physical items in the Library
• General charactersitics: Broad scope, authoritative, not as timely

Location information

By clicking on titles in your search results, you can find details about each item including location and availability information:

Finding Images

Images have varying types of restrictions:

• Copyright protected
• Royalty-free
• Public Domain & Copyright-free
• Fair Use Copyright Information
• Creative Commons
  • Creative Commons License Types
  • More Creative Commons learning tools

Image sites:

• Google image search
  • Limit by usage rights on the Advanced search screen (warning: this is imprecise)
  • Limit by color and resolution on the search results page

• Flickr Creative Commons Photos
  Large collection of user submitted photos usable under Creative Commons licensing
  135,000,000 CC-licensed photos as of March, 2010!
  • Flickr Advanced Search (limit to CC images)
  • Multicolr Search Lab
  • Flickr Storm

• Educational Image Collections
  A collection of image databases and image search engines maintained by the College of DuPage Library. Copyright restrictions vary among collections.

• Wikipedia Public Domain Images
  Extensive collection of online public domain image resources organized by subject
  • Classical artwork
    (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/)
  • Search engines
    (http://www.everystockphoto.com/)
  • Government images
    (http://nasaimages.org/)

• MorgueFile
  Thousands of high-resolution photos available for commercial use (small collection but high-res and useful)
• Image*After
  Download images or textures from this site for use in either personal or commercial works.
• Zen Textures
  Newer textures site
• Getty Royalty Free Images
• PublicDomainPictures.net
  Small but high-quality collection of public domain images
• More tagged sites on del.icio.us
  There are many image sites to choose from--beware, some are more "free" than others!

Video, icons, fonts, music

• Don't forget video!  And also try the Creative Commons search tool to search for CC media.
• Icons
• Fonts
• Music
  • ccMixter
  • Free Music Archive
  • Internet Archive Audio Archive
  • Creative Commons Legal Music for Videos
  • Jamendo