Getting Started: Key Resources
This guide compiles digital image resource collections relevant to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Additional resources with substantial image content can be discovered on the A-Z Databases List by selecting "Image Collections" on the "Database Types" dropdown. In time, this guide will also incorporate key image collections for the Sciences.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowARTStor is a library of digital images, covering many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.
- Open Image CollectionsThis is a pathfinder page providing information about over 100 free online image collections across many disciplines. It is produced and maintained by the Nanyang Technological University Library in Singapore.
Sites with Multiple, Varied Collections
- Tessa: Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public LibraryThe LAPL has extensive digital collections coverring an array of subjects including Southern California History, Movies, Fashion, Restaurant Menus and more.
- UC Davis Digital CollectionsThis is a growing collection of selections from the UC Davis Library Collections, pertaining to Wine, Campus and Regional History, Agriculture and more.