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Fair Use: Using Images and Non-Textual Materials in Presentations, Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

This guide offers basic information on using images and media in research. Reasonable use of images and media in teaching, course papers, and graduate theses/dissertations is generally covered by fair use.

Authoritative Image Sources

These sources include not just image reproductions but also information about them, such as creator, title, image location, description, analysis, etc., that can be used for citing.

Books

Books are an important source for images, which have been well identified and described. To find books, search [your local library or your institution’s library catalog].

Journal and Newspaper Articles

Like books, journals and newspapers are a good source for identifiable images. Disciplinary databases of journal articles, as well as historic newspaper databases, are listed in [your local library or your institution’s library database resource].

Institutional Image Databases

Libraries, museums, and cultural organizations provide access to print and digital collections of images.

Look for digital image databases, available through [your local library or your institution’s library catalog].

· Your Local [or Institution] Digital Library –not all local libraries have a large section of this sort, but you should be able to find an image system through your college or university. For libraries that do have a digital image section, they provide a wealth of historic resources such as photographs, oral histories, recordings, etc. These items are often located in a specialized collection on-site, online, and in the collections of collaborating public libraries.

· ARTSTOR – an important and growing collection of over a million images in the visual disciplines.

· David Rumsey Historical Map Collection – contains over 20,000 digitized maps, focusing on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the world, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.

Photojournalistic Sources

Examples of photojournalistic sites that have large image archives and manage reproduction rights are Corbis, Getty Images, and Magnum Photos. These and other authoritative sites of copyrighted images may provide students with reproduction rights without charging a fee.

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This information was last updated: Mar 6, 2018 12:29 PM

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