Dear Colin and the rest of the MCG list,
To add to the other excellent suggestions may I also recommend you look
at the new Intute: Arts and Humanities service:
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
Take a look at the Image Banks section
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=artifact72
It is a vast area and covers a lot more than what you are asking for.
You might be interested, though, in a section within Image Banks on
'Finding Images', which would point you to TASI (the Technical Advisory
Service for Images), which is always a good place to start when looking
for images.
The section, though, that you're really asking for is 'Museum and
Gallery Images'
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=artifact917
This is part of 'Image Databases'. This includes the collections of the
Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, V&A, Manchester Art
Gallery etc. I would have thought that you would have to check the
individual websites about the permissions though.
See also my note about a subject booklet for *the Visual Arts* below.
*Some background about Intute*
As you may know, July 13th saw the relaunch of the Resource Discovery
Network (RDN) as Intute with a complete overhaul of its organisation and
online services. Intute: Arts and Humanities is one of four subject
groups in the new service and results from a merging of the Humbul
Humanities Hub and Artifact. Intute: Arts and Humanities is led by
Oxford University in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan
University. An official press release from Intute is included below.
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very
best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by
a network of subject specialists. Improving on the services offered by
the RDN, Intute now offers sophisticated cross-disciplinary and advanced
searching, and allows users to save, tag and export Intute records by
means of a free personal MyIntute account.
*Visual Arts subject booklet*
Intute: Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce the publication of
'Internet Resources for the Visual Arts'. Sponsored by the publishers
CSA and the H.W. Wilson Art Collection, this free 16-page booklet is a
guide to the best of the Web the Visual Arts. It is available to
download as a PDF from
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/support.html
You may also order FREE copies from Intute: Arts and Humanities via
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/feedback.html.
*New Intute feature: Limelight*
Limelight, from Intute: Arts and Humanities, is a regular feature which
showcases topical subjects, new and noteworthy websites, or forthcoming
events, exhibitions or festivals. Each feature gives information, links
to related sites in the Intute: Arts and Humanities database and
suggestions for possible searches. Recently, Limelight focused on
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), and Ian Hamilton Finlay, and the Italian
Renaissance
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/limelightfront.pl
More arts-related topics will be in the Limelight soon, so watch
this space!
*New Web address*
The new Web address for Intute: Arts and Humanities is
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ If you maintain a website
which links to Humbul, Artifact or the Resource Discovery Network then
we would be grateful if you could update the links to point to the new
Intute Website. The Humbul and Artifact websites still remain but will
no longer be updated.
*New email list*
As part of the reorganisation we have merged together the
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archives for both lists are available, together with instructions for
leaving or joining the list, at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/intute-artsandhumanities.
We would be very pleased to receive your comments and suggestions about
Intute: Arts and Humanities. Please send feedback about any aspect of
the service here: http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/feedback.html.
Please feel free to circulate this email within your institution and
subject associations.
Kind regards,
Alun Edwards
Service Manager
Intute: Arts and Humanities
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*Press release*
Intute: the best of the Web
London. 13th July 2006. Intute was launched today at an event held at
the Wellcome Trust. Intute is the new face of the Resource Discovery
Network (RDN), and is a free national service enabling lecturers,
researchers and students to discover and access quality Internet
resources. Intute exists to advance education and research by promoting
the most intelligent use of the Internet.
Caroline Williams, Executive Director of Intute said, "the environment
in which we operate is rapidly changing. Issues of trust and quality
are real concerns for our users, and we have responded to this by
creating a new service which takes the best of the RDN and streamlines
it into one easy to use interface." She explains, "the Intute database
makes it possible to discover the best and most relevant resources on
the Internet. You can explore and discover trusted information, assured
that it has been evaluated by subject specialists."
Intute is hosted by MIMAS at The University of Manchester, and is a
collaboration between a whole host of partners and contributors. At the
heart of the organisation is a consortium of seven universities,
bringing together a wealth of expertise and knowledge. Intute is funded
by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), with support from the
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC).
Intute is freely available at http://www.intute.ac.uk/
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Alun Edwards
Service Manager
Intute: Arts and Humanities
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 283 347
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URL: http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
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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