Library: Quinebaug Valley Research Process: Find Images

Find Images

Image & Art Databases
Free Photos & Images via the Internet

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.  Indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Artstor This link opens in a new window Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world's top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else.   Artstore has Open Access collections from partner museums freely available to all, in areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and educational purposes.  All content in Artstor is rights-cleared for education and research.  
JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection This link opens in a new window The JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection contains all licensed JSTOR archival journals and primary sources content in a single collection, including Archive Journal Collections and thematic collections; specifically, it includes Arts & Sciences I – XV, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Jewish Studies, Life Sciences, Public Health, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability journal collections. It also contains four primary source collections, 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants. This collection contains 2,877 high quality academic journals from across a wide range of disciplines and hundreds of thousands of primary source items.

These internet collections usually have readily available information for attribution or citation. Hover-over or click the image to find the photographer’s name, the date, the image was created, and other citation details.

Wikicommons
Wikicommons ("brother" of Wikipedia) is a massive database of images available to freely use.
Clker
Clker provides free clip art that is all in the public domain.
The Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Collection specializes in free images related to health and medical sciences.
Flickr
Flickr is a collection of high-quality photos using a Creative Commons license.
Pixabay
All photos and other media on pixabay are in the public domain. You'll have to create a free account before downloading.
NYPL's digital collection
NYPL's digital collection has almost 1 million items to use. It's a large list, so make sure to be precise with your keywords.
Connecticut History Illustrated
Connecticut History Illustrated has documents, images, maps, audio, and video covering the entire spectrum of work, play, and life in Connecticut.