KU image gateway
- Image GatewayIncluded here are licensed commercial sources, publicly available collections, and images digitized from resources in the KU libraries, museums, and academic departments. Information and terms of use for each collection is found in the listing.
- ARTstor Help & TutorialOne of the most comprehensive image resources licensed by KU is ARTstor with more than 1 million images on a wide-range of topics. This guide introduces the resource and helps users learn to find, download, save, print, organize, and share images.
Image copyright
- Copyright Crash CoursePrepared by Georgia K. Harper, the Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of Texas at Austin Library, this site provides basic information on protecting your own work as well as rules for using other's intellectual efforts.
Wire services images
- Associated Press This link opens in a new windowContains the archives of the Associated Press. New content is added constantly to news photographs, audio sound bites, and graphics spanning 180 years of history. Formerly called AccuNet/AP multimedia archive
General information
Images may be found in a variety of formats on publicly accessible web sites. Copyright restrictions may apply to these images, and the web master of a given site may need to be consulted when images are used. Many large and small museums have excellent web sites which display images from their collections as well as information about the images and contacts for more assistance. The library also has many lavishly illustrated books and journals that are available for research.
Architectural images
World Architecture Index by Call Number: NA202 .T4 1991New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. Indexes reproductions of architecture found in books.
- Cities/Buildings DatabaseA collection of over 5000 digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web. The images have been scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain. Researchers can search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.
- Oxford art online This link opens in a new windowGateway access to Grove Art Online and other Oxford art reference resources. In addition to the more than 23,000 subject entries and 21,000 biographies, the product offers 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.
- Built in America: Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering RecordDocuments achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies. With more than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century.
- Architecture and Interior Design for 20th century America: 1935-1955This Library of Congress collection includes digitized photographs of buildings primarily from the Northeastern United States.
- Archivision Architectural ImagesThe Archivision Digital Research Library is currently comprised of 65,000 images of architecture, archeological sites, gardens, parks, and works of art with broad appeal in humanities teaching. The Library is divided into modules and spans the globe and all time periods, with each module offering a mix of historic and contemporary material.
- ArchnetIslamic architecture image library of historic and contemporary buildings and sites and general views. Offered by MIT School of Architecture and Planning and University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, in cooperation with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
- The Great Buildings Collection1000 buildings documented with images, text, and references.
- HABS, HAER, and HALS"Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Since 2000, documentation from the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) has been added to the holdings. The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes..."
- ArchDailyBlog-format publication featuring articles on contemporary architecture.
Often includes building plans for featured projects.