ITP Library Adds More Resources

Three terrific resources have been added to our Access Online Database page.

CAMIO--Catalog of Art Museum Images Online--is an image collection that contains about 95,000 works of fine and decorative art from leading museums around the world. The collection ranges from 3000 BCE to the present, representing examples of Asian, African, Latin American and Western art. All content is rights-cleared for educational use.

The Chronicle of Higher Education is a leading newspaper from the world of academia. Its reputation as a source of job listings for college and university faculty and administrators is well-known but it is also heralded as a center of fresh discussion of politics, art, and ideas.

SpringerLink ebooks is a collection of electronic books (e-books) on the behavioral sciences. E-books can be conveniently accessed day or night and just like physical books, can be browsed and searched for applicability and relevance to one's subject.

Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens)

In search of images that will add visual interest to your work?
Interested in visual researching?
Cooliris can help.
This Firefox add-on is easy (and fun) to use. Once installed,
images are presented as a 3D wall that you can effortlessly zip along.
Just click on the image to bring it to the fore and zoom in.
Each picture has a small globe icon which you can click on to
jump to its corresponding website.You can easily share the images by clicking the envelope icon which allows you to email them to others. Cooliris is a great time saver as it taps into the image resources of many popular websites and search engines including Google, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, deviantArt, Photobucket, and Yahoo.

Firefox can be downloaded free from: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.
The Cooliris add-on can then be installed from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=cooliris&cat=all .

Picture it! Finding Pictures using Creative Commons

http://www.flickr.com/photos/90664717@N00/280654070/

The idea of Creative Commons is to make it easy to find an image (or other resource) to reuse with the legal permission of the creator.

One easy way is to use the Flickr Creative Commons portal.

If I want to find mandala images for which I only need to provide an attribution, I click on the "more" link under Attribution to get to a search page that only searches Creative Commons Attribution images. Searching on mandala from this page, I get 326 images.

More tips on searching for images coming soon.