Image & Article Resources
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
- Art & Architecture ePortal
A&AePortal contains more than 350 e-books related to the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. Most titles are exclusive to the platform and are published by Yale University Press and other leading university presses (Princeton, Harvard, MIT) and museum publishers (Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art). It contains a wide variety of content, including scholarly monographs, museum catalogs, and catalouges raisonnés.
- Google ImagesTo find royalty-free images using Google, search for your subject. Then click on: Tools => Usage Rights => Creative Commons Licenses
- JSTORJSTOR is a multidisciplinary digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Artstor's database of images has been moved to JSTOR.
- Library of Congress ImagesThis page features items from the Library of Congress' (LOC) digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The LOC believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.
- New York Public Library Digital ImagesHundreds of thousands of images from the NYPL collections. The materials are labeled with statements that indicate how you may reuse items, and what sort of permission, if any, you need to do so.
- Smithsonian Open AccessHere you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. You have easier access to over 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
- Wikimedia CommonsA collection of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Malvin Gray Johnson, Self Portrait, 1934, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, SSM 1976.57.30