There are some images that we purchase for use. If you have purchased rights (LibraryAware, Shutterstock, SRP materials), follow the rights usage for those materials.

Images & Film - Public Domain images

• Library of Congress’s list of Public Domain film resources http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pubdomain.html
• Wikipedia Public Domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources
• Wikimedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ; New York Times public domain photographs http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_Domain_Images_from_the_New_York_Times
• Smithsonian Public Domain photographs (on Flickr - note: not all Flickr images can be used; see p.3 for searching Flickr) https://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian
• NASA https://images.nasa.gov/

Stock Photos

• Avopix https://avopix.com/
• Burst @ Shopify https://burst.shopify.com/
• Foodies Feed https://www.foodiesfeed.com/
• Imageric https://imageric.com/
• MaxPixels https://www.maxpixel.net
• Motosha https://www.motosha.com/
• Pexels https://www.pexels.com
• PicSpree https://picspree.com/en
• Pixabay https://pixabay.com/
• PixelParis (Artistic/Paintings) https://www.pixelparis.com/
• PikWizard https://pikwizard.com/
• StockSnap https://stocksnap.io/
• Unsplash https://unsplash.com/
• Visual Hunt https://visualhunt.com/
• The stocks (searches multiple free sites at once) - http://thestocks.im/

Icons

• Flaticons https://www.flaticon.com/
• FreePik Free Icons https://www.freepik.com/popular-icons
• Free Icons https://freeicons.io/
• Icons8 https://icons8.com/
• Icons for Everything (Noun Project) https://thenounproject.com/
• IconFinder https://www.iconfinder.com/free_icons
• Icon Shock https://www.iconshock.com/free-icons/
• Icon Store (Free) https://iconstore.co/

Searching Google for Images You Can Use Legally*

• http://www.google.com/advanced_search
• Images: http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

Search your topic in the search box (Note: you can do advanced searching here using Boolean operators - below)

Select Images. Click on Tools to get the list of rights (copyright)

Choose Usage Rights.

Noncommercial = not selling, making money using the image in some way

Reuse = You can use if you meet the rest of the requirements

With Modification = You can edit

Also - a lot more choices - search by color, size, type (photo, clip art, etc.)

Boolean & Advanced Searching

Phrase Searching

If you want to search for words as a phrase, put quotation marks around your search terms.

Example: “3d printing”

Important Terms

Put a + symbol in front of your most important search terms.

Example: Athens + news

Related Search

To find websites similar to other sites, type the word “related” followed by the original websites.

Example: related:www.cnn.com

Limit to site

To find indexed files on a specific website:

Example: site:athenslibrary.org

More:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/limiting.pdf