Introducing the new HELIX Image Service for Higher Education. Please 
do look at this eLib funded service: it should be of interest to many 
of you - information below.      
                             
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*FREE PICTURES FOR EVERYONE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UK
*52,000 images free for educational use to UK HE
*http://www.helix.dmu.ac.uk/
*The images and textual information in HELIX can be used in UK Higher
  Education institutions in a non commercial manner until 19th June 2002
*web based service - complete with project info, usage info, help, 
  feedback form, FAQS and ofcourse 1000's of images. 
*The HELIX Service has been specifically developed as a service to the
  UK Higher Education community, for use in an educational context. Access is
  controlled via the users network address. If you have an email address, you will
  be familiar with the format, e.g. [log in to unmask] and
  mymachine.mydepartment.myuniversity.ac.uk 
*Press release below

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Press release - 13 July 1998.

If a picture paints a thousand words then 52,000 free images, covering
a whole host of subjects, are certain to benefit anyone involved in
learning, teaching and research.

That resource has become a reality for the first time with the launch
of HELIX (the Higher Education Library Image Exchange), a project
spearheaded by De Montfort University.  HELIX provides on-line access
to a vast collection of high quality images for university and college
students, lecturers and researchers to use for free in their work.

The £0.5 million project was funded by the Joint Information Systems
Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils as part of its
Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).  De Montfort - renowned for its
electronic library research - joined forces with the Hulton Getty
Picture Collection Limited and St Andrews University, Fife, for the
project.

More than two years' research has gone into setting up HELIX, and
carefully selecting images and information for inclusion.  The
collection comprises: · images of textiles, paintings, ceramics,
metalwork, Chinese/Japanese art, Indian art, furniture, glass,
photography, sculpture, costume, theatre and manuscripts; · Picture
Post magazine images and information which provide a slice of social
history in Britain from 1938 to 1957; · ipictures showing six areas of
British history - the Irish troubles, history of sport, women's
history, development of the mass media, UK politicians and Labour
history, with editorial input from academics, journalists and
archivists; · and images from the James Valentine collection (a
postcard archive of photography over the past 100 years), plus items
from George Cowie and Robert Adam photographic collections.

To access this rich new resource, students, tutors and anyone else in
higher education should visit the HELIX website on the internet at
http://www.helix.dmu.ac.uk/ where they can browse and search for
particular images, print them out, save them to disk and incorporate
them into their own work.  A special security system has been set up
to prevent abuse of the image collection for commercial gain.

Sophia Goddard, HELIX project manager at De Montfort's International
Institute for Electronic Library Research, said:  "I'm delighted this
worthwhile project has been so successful and resulted in the free
HELIX service to UK higher education.  The image collections will be
useful for students, staff and researchers across a wide spectrum of
subject areas.  The range of images is impressive and the databases
are easy to search."

See for yourself by visiting the HELIX website at:
http://www.helix.dmu.ac.uk/

*Message posted by Sophia Goddard, HELIX Project Manager, De Montfort 
University. 


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