Hello all
You could also try an archive or special collections library. Archivists generally store collections which contains copyrighted material.
Tracy Deakin
Archivist
St John's College, Cambridge
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> On 27 Nov 2015, at 20:04, Andy Mabbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On 25 November 2015 at 10:36, Tanya Gray Jones
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>> Later in the day I came across an extensive 'born digital' collection of images with associated metadata of wild species and natural history objects, that together form a virtual field guide to UK biodiversity: http://www.bioimages.org.uk/.
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>> I asked the creator of the collection, Malcolm Storey, if he had considered donating the collection to a museum at some point, and he said that from his experience there was little interest in an image collection.
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> More than 99% of the images are under a CC By-NC-SA licence, If
> Malcolm is willing to drop the "NC" restriction, Wikimedia Commons
> would accept that part of the collection, and make it available -
> effectively - in perpetuity.
>
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> Andy Mabbett
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> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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