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Images

The Audio Visual library holds a large collection of pictures and posters which are an important teaching resource. Search the Catalogue.  Under Collections select “Audio visual materials”

In addition you can search for images for projects and research in the following online databases:

Bridgeman Education  - offering over 530,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use.

JSTOR  - Search in the usual way. When you get your results click on the tab ‘Images in JSTOR’

Oxford Art Online /Grove Art Online

Oxford Reference Online - Do search as normal. When you get your results click on tab ‘Maps & Illustrations’

AICT - Art images for college teachers. 

Artcyclopedia  - Indexes online art gallery collections worldwide. Access to works of art by over 9000 artists.

EduPic Graphical Resources - A teacher designed free image resource for educators and their students

Flickr: The Commons

Freeimages - Over 300,000 photographs

LIFE photo archive

National Library of Ireland Digital Photography

Includes collections such as the Lawrence Collection (17,000 topographical images of Ireland, 1870-1914) and the Poole Collection (5,000 images of south east Ireland, 1884-1954).

VADS - Online resources for visual arts

Wikimedia Commons  - a free media file repository