Library Resources: ENG102: First-Year Composition: Find Video/ Images

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Film Databases

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 6000 films in various subjects from Films for the Humanities & Sciences and other leading educational film vendors.
Swank Video This link opens in a new window
This product offers motion pictures used by instructors and students in support of instruction. They may be included in Canvas for viewing by students off site or may be viewed in class, although resolution for the latter might be of lesser quality.

Art Database

ArtStor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Recommended Places to Find Images

Google Searches:

Images on a general Google search are likely copyright protected, but there is a way to narrow down the results to usable pictures and graphics.

When performing a search, click on "settings," then "advanced settings."
Then (under "usage rights") choose "free to use or share" or "free to use, share, or modify."
For high-resolution images, click on "tools," then (under "size") "large."

Pixnio
High quality copyright friendly images, not copyrighted and no restriction for their use. Images explicitly placed in the public domain, no any rights reserved. Public domain images can be used for whatever you want, use it freely for any personal or commercial use.
Unsplash
Free to use for personal or commercial with no attribution.
Life of Pix
Free high resolution photos. No copyright restriction.
Pixabay
Free for any use without attribution.
Pexels
Free to use for any purpose under the Creative Commons Licensing.
Pikwizard
PikWizard offer thousands of free stock photos across a broad range of subjects. An excellent resource if you need natural-looking photos of people.
Creative Commons Image Sharing
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
National Archives Photos
All pictures are public domain. Keyword search and then limit to images.
NASA Image and Video Library
All images are public domain. Please credit: "NASA/JPL-Caltech" or "Courtesy of NASA/JPL."
Gratisography
A collection of quirky pictures by photographer and graphic designer Ryan McGuire.
Negative Space
All photos under creative commons license, so you can copy, modify, distribute the work even for commercial purposes.
New Old Stock
Vintage public domain photos. Not searchable.
Open Clip Art
Free clip art.
Open Parks Network
A digital archive of images and documents of the National Parks. Most are public domain.
The Pattern Library
Free to use pattern downloads.
Photos for Class
Available for educational use. Automatically creates a citation that posts with the image.
StockSnap.io
All photos under creative commons license, so you can copy, modify, distribute the work even for commercial purposes.