Images and Media Resources

These resources provide access to a wealth of images and media. They are available for fair-use educational use in the classroom (such as lectures and presentations). For other uses, permission must be attained from the copyright holder. More information on copyright.

Databases

Clark College Student Newspaper Collection

The Clark College Student Newspaper Collection currently features 87 issues from The Penguin's Progress newspaper. The issues were published during the 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1962 school years. The newspaper includes topics on campus life, politics, art and culture, sports and other areas of interest.

Clark College Visual Resources Collection

A repository of more than 5,000 images digitized from the art slide collection of the Clark College Art Department.

ARTstor

Database of hundreds of thousands of digital images. How to Access ARTstor from Off Campus

AccessMedicine NOTE: Allows one user at a time. If you are denied access, please wait a few minutes and try again.

Access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review. Full-text books, such as Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.

AccessScience: Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online

Full-text access to reliable, credible science information, including articles, illustrations, biographies, and late-breaking news.

AtoZ Maps Online

The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.

Streaming Video

American Cinema

Using clips from more than 300 of the greatest movies ever made, this 1995 series explores film history and American culture through the eyes of over 150 Hollywood insiders, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Eisner.

Films for the Humanities

A limited number of videos, available until February 2012. Titles include: Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason, Power of Art, Stress: Keeping Your Cool, and Writing Women's Lives.

Frontline - PBS

In-depth, thought-provoking documentaries on current issues in the news.

NBC News Archives on Demand

Watch thousands of videos, historic newsreels, primary source documents, and photographs. Watch online or download, search by topic, collection, date, keyword; create your personal playlists.

Theatre in Video NOTE: Allows 3 users at a time. If you are denied access, please wait a few minutes and try again.

Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all - representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

STASH

Stash is the online magazine for animation, digital effects, motion graphics. Known issues with Google Chrome and Internet Explorer; We suggest using FireFox.

Web Sources

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Search across hundreds of digital collections from libraries and museums across the country.

Alabama Mosaic

Digital collection from libraries and museums across Alabama.

Alaska Digital Archives

Over 5,000 images of Alaska's heritage.

Calisphere

Collection of digitized primary materials from California libraries, archives, and museums. Includes themed collections such as the Gold Rush and World War II.

Library of Congress American History and Culture Collection

Multiple types of digitized content including photographs, maps, sound recordings, and movies.

Library of Congress International Collections

Includes resources, such as photographs of the Ottoman and Russian empires, from the national libraries of other countries.

Oregon Digital Library Project

The best of Oregon’s digital collections. Easily search through a variety of documents, photographs and other digital items from the state’s universities, libraries and museums.

Photomuse

Devoted to the history of photography, this site also includes an image database.

University of Washington Digital Collections

Diverse collection of images fromand about Washington State and the Pacific Northwest including movie stills, architecture, Northwest Coast American Indians, and more.

Washington State Digital Archives

Photographs, as well as state and county records, including birth, census, death, land, marriage, military, etc. The nation's first archives dedicated specifically to the preservation of electronic records from both Washington state and local agencies that have permanent legal, fiscal or historical value.

Duke Digital Collections

Variety of national and international subjects.

Harvard University Library

List of links to the various digital collections housed on the Harvard campus. Includes collections of photographs, pamplets, and more.

Yale University Library Digital Collections

Access to digital collections owned by Yale University.

Historical Photograph Collection at the Arizona State Archives

Over 30,000 images mostly from before 1940.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Over 600,000 images with subjects ranging from arts to science.

Indiana Historical Society

Images cover topics from sports to architecture.

 

Smithsonian Science Service Historical Image Collection

Images from the Smithsonian Museum's collections.

 

USGS Newsroom

Images and other media from the US Geolocical Survey.

 

OhioLINK Digital Media Center

Audio, video, and image collections from OhioLINK. Subjects include art, history, and science.

 

Science and Medical Digital Image Collections

From the University of Michigan libraries.

 

NOAA Photo Library

From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Includes pictures of Hurricane Katrina, coral reefs, and much more.

Focus on Medical Images

eSkeletons Project

2-D and 3-D digitized skeletons

Jove: Journal of Visualized Experiments

Hundreds of peer-reiewed videos

 

Health on the New Foundation

Repository of more than 6,800 medical images and videos

Medical Gallery

pictures hosted on the Hardin MD (University of Iowa) web site.

Medical Images and Illustrations

from the Karolinska Institute

American Society of Hematology

Image Bank