LibGuides: Science Communication: Images & Multimedia

	Use the wide range of online digital libraries and subscription image databases to find images for your project. Be sure to check reuse terms and conditions, if you consider them for your creative project.

ARTstor Digital Library

A nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Includes a collection on the History of Natural Science. Some images are licensed to be used for free in academic publishing.
JSTOR

JSTOR is a not-for-profit archive of scholarly journals. Search captions to limit your results to articles with images.
National Archives Image Library

An eclectic choice of unusual and often unique images. The image library provides high-resolution digitised scans and photographic prints of The National Archives' images for commercial publication, display, broadcast, and product and brand licensing.
TROVE Picture Search

Search photographs and many other pictorial media from the Australian National Library's discovery service. An Australian focus, but includes New Zealand and international images.

VADS: Visual Arts Data Service

Over 100,000 images free for use for educational purposes.
Wellcome Images

Wellcome Images is a major visual collection developed by the Wellcome Trust. It focusses on medical and biomedical science images.

Find digital images from Aotearoa New Zealand using the tools below.

Hākena Search
Search the Hocken Collection's archives, pictures, and photographs.
Recollect | Hocken Digital Collections Explore images of pictures and photographs from the Hocken Pictorial Collections and Special Collections. Digital Collections is a window into a selection of the cultural, heritage and historical material within Hocken Collections and the library's Special Collections.
National Library Image Search
Database of heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand. Access images and information about them, including items of cultural value to Māori people and other New Zealanders.

Gas Meter Dial A view of the dial on the gas works meter. The Gasmeter Company West and Gregson Oldham

Use the tools below to find digital images that you are free to reuse in your project.

Creative Commons Search
A useful interface for searching images licensed under Creative Commons, including Google, Flickr, and Fotopedia.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files.

Lists sites that help you find images that you can re-use under their Creative Commons licenses.