A guide to millions of free, hi-res images
(18 June 2014) OEDb.org lists and describes several little known collections offering millions of free hi-res images. Visit the list here.
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Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
(13 June 2014) The British Library has reposted a detailed description of the Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT) one of the winners for the British Library Labs competition 2014. It has been reposted on the Digital Scholarship blog on behalf of Desmond Schmidt and Anna Gerber, University of Queensland. TILT is a tool for linking areas on…
Free, downloadable images from Te Papa’s collections
(3 June 2014) The Museum of New Zealand has made over 30,000 images downloadable, for free, in the highest resolution. You can search for and download them at Collections Online. Read the illustrated announcement.
WIPO launches unique image-based search for trademarks, other brand information
(12 May 2014, Geneva) The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has unveiled a one-of-a-kind image-search function for its Global Brand Database, adding a new feature that allows users to upload an image to search for visually similar trademark and other brand-information records from among the millions of images in the collection. The image-search functionality, which…
Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images
(20 January 2014) Over 100,000 images ranging from ancient medical manuscripts to etchings by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Francisco Goya are now available for free download as hi-res images on the Wellcome Images website. Drawn from the historical holdings of the world-renowned Wellcome Library, the images are being released under the Creative…
The British Library takes a million first steps
(12 December 2013) The British Library has released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to the BL, allowing them to be released into the Public Domain.…
New data from Getty Images to help improve Pinterest
(25 October 2013) Pinterest has announced a partnership with Getty Images to let you learn more about the images you pin. The Getty Images collection of imagery is created by a community of hundreds of thousands of contributors. Their collection not only includes great images but also data about each image. This can include who…
Introducing Image Group Download
(18 October 2013) You know that you can export image groups as PowerPoint presentations. But sometimes you want the images by themselves. That’s why you can now download groups of as many as 150 images as a zip file. It’s easy! Watch ArtStor’s short video to learn more.