General Resources and Guides
- University of Chicago Library’s Guide to Copyright-free and Copyright-lenient Images
- Bielstein, Susan M. Permissions, a Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property [e-book]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States
- Digital Image Rights Computator
- Visual Resources Association Statement on The Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study
- College Art Association: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts
- College Art Association: Intellectual Property and the Arts
- Digital Copyright Slider from the ALA’s Office for Information Technology
- Columbia University Libraries/Information Services: What is Fair Use?
- Images of Works of Art in Museum Collections: The Experience of Open Access by Kristin Kelly for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (June 2013)
- Describing Visual Resources Toolkit for Accessibility in Arts & Humanities Publications
Online Copyright-Free or Copyright-Lenient Image Resources
- Art Institute of Chicago (public domain images)
- Artstor Images for Academic Publishing (find images by adding “iap” to your keyword search)
- Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (see English language ICONCLASS catalog)
- Artsy Education
- The British Museum
- J. Paul Getty Trust
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- National Gallery of Art
- National Gallery (London)
- New York Public Library
- Paris Musées
- UK National Portrait Gallery
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Walters Art Museum
- Wellcome Images
- Yale Center for British Art
- Yale University Art Gallery
Image Resources by Subject
Illustration
- University of Michigan: Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture
- Lawrence University: Art of the Poster 1880-1918
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Original Illustration Portfolios
- James Madison University: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (use Guest Login)
Islamic
Medieval
Photography