Finding and Citing Images

Photo by Buridans Esel, Some rights reserved
Photo by Buridans Esel, Some rights reserved

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Citing Images

Finding Images

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Creative commons

This way of copyrighting photos, documents, music and videos allows the copyright holder to open up restrictions in some ways. For example an artist can copyright a photo to be "share alike" which means other people may use it, but they must also copyright it as "share alike." The following are some places you can find images with various creative commons licenses. Make sure to check the license on the image before you use it.

  Creative Commons image by Jayel Aheram

Public Domain

The public domain contains materials that are no longer under copyright. You may use these images without restrictions, however you still have to cite them.

Others

Citing Images

Citation Example of the image below in MLA

Gnuckx. Piazza di Spagna. 2008. Italy-Roma, Rome, Italy. Flickr. Web. 14 Apr. 2011.

Image by Gnuckx on flickr.com. Found under a creative commons search
Image by Gnuckx on flickr.com. Found under a creative commons search
 
 

Anne HillerClark, Instruction Svs/Shaw Librarian

Office:Shaw Historical Libr
Tel:541.885.1767
Contact me for help finding and citing images, both historical and current.

Dawn LoweWincentsen, Portland Operations Librarian

Office:Portland East
Tel:503.821.1258
Contact me with questions about finding images you can use in your projects, and about how to attribute and cite those images.

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Last Updated April 2011