Hi all
TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images) has some resources of
use in finding images. Our image sites database includes a few
hundred image collections, many of which will be reusable within this
context:
<http://www.tasi.ac.uk/imagesites/index.php>
We also have a series of papers called 'Finding images online' with
references to dozens of key collections and search tools:
<http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/using.html> These papers were
updated in May and June of this year.
This series includes papers on finding particular sorts of images
(current events images; art, architecture and design images;
historical images; scientific images; and maps). You will also find
the 'Finding stock images' paper useful as this lists free stock
image collections and several routes in to creative commons content:
<http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/finding_stock.html>
With best wishes,
Grant
--On 27 July 2006 11:10 +0100 Peter Pavement
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> Hello all
>
> There are a few copyright-free or generously licensed image
> resources out there on the web:
>
> Vispix (based in Switzerland)
> http://visipix.dynalias.com/index_hidden.htm
> They just ask for attribution of photographer and site with each
> image, other than that you can do what you want
>
> Stock.xchange (based in Hungary)
> http://www.sxc.hu/
> This is more like a designer's stock photography library, but it's
> free. Graphic designers act in the same way as schoolchildren -
> they cut up and re-purpose images for their own usage so the
> license should hold!
>
> It's also worth bearing in mind that the US government agencies
> often have completely copyright free image libraries. They take the
> attitude that the taxpayer already paid for the images so why make
> them pay again and luckily for us the world gets a look in too. If
> only the British had the same idea - try getting a license for
> Crown Copyright material and see the difference! Great images can
> be found at nasa.gov and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
> Administration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/. There's a listing of
> all the agencies at:
> http://www.firstgov.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml
>
> best
>
> Peter
>
> Surface Impression Ltd
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> Suite 85, Kingsway House,
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> Hove, BN3 2DL
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> http://www.surfaceimpression.com
>
>
> On 27 Jul 2006, at 08:13, Colin Hynson wrote:
>
>> Apologies for cross-posting
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have been commissioned to write an article on on-line image
>> banks that
>> schools can access and use in the classroom. These need to be image
>> collections where schools have permission to copy for classroom
>> use only and
>> without infringing copyright at all.
>>
>> I already have some good websites and CD-ROMs but I am on the
>> look-out for
>> some good museum/gallery/library/archive websites or CD-ROMs that
>> have image
>> collections that pupils can use in their own work.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Colin Hynson
>> T: 01603 479463
>> M: 07776 121172
>>
>>
>>
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