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Classroom Clip Art
A great source for free clipart, illustrations, and pictures.
Flickr: Creative Commons
Browse or search content that Flickr users have chosen to offer under a Creative Commons license.
Great Buildings Online
This website contains images from more than 1000 great buildings from around the world and across history.
LIFE Photo Archive hosted by Google
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
Military Images Media
This website has hundreds of photographs, clip-art, and other multimedia related to the military.
NOAA Photo Library
This website showcases images in a wide array of collections and galleries based on the work of NOAA scientists, officers, engineers, and other agency personnel.
NYPL Digital Collections
Search this database for prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and more that have been digitized by the New York Public Library.
SMART Exchange
A repository of activities, games, and SMART Notebook lessons to use with SMART software. Registration required.
Smithsonian Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Search through records of museum objects, archives, and library materials, including images, audio samples, and video.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Digital Library
This website contains images, videos, audio clips, maps, and other documents related this service.
Wikipedia: Public Domain Image Resources
This website lists a number of sources of public domain images on the web.
YouTube
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Education Resources

Search these databases for journal and magazine articles, ERIC documents, and locate citations for books and dissertations.

Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information in all fields of education, from early childhood to higher education. Topics include: educational specialty fields, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
ERIC via US Department of Education This link opens in a new window
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) indexes more than 1.3 million bibliographic records in education research and resources. Materials include journal articles (mostly peer-reviewed), books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and more. Selectively full-text for the document (non-journal) portion of the database.
ProQuest Education Journals This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 900 educational publications, including more than 600 full-text titles. Topics include: primary, secondary and higher education, special education, home schooling and adult education. Many titles are indexed in the ERIC database.

Art Resources and Reference Materials

Need background information, basic facts, definitions, images, or brief biographical sketches? Use these databases to locate these items and more, such as citations of journal articles, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, and exhibition and dealers' catalogs.

Art Abstracts This link opens in a new window
A fully searchable index of journal and dissertation abstracts in the visual arts. Topics include: commercial art, decorative art, architecture, folk art, fine art, photography, and film. Content spans 1980 – Present.
Art Bibliographies Modern (ABM) This link opens in a new window
A fully searchable index of journal, book, and dissertation abstracts in modern and contemporary visual art. Topic include: painting, performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists’ books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry and illustration, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Content spans 1974 – Present.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
An extensive compilation of downloadable, high resolution images. Content encompasses art, architecture, photography, the humanities, and social sciences. Searchable by gallery, museum, subject, period, region, and keyword. Features include zooming and side-by-side comparison. Pop-up blockers must be disabled to view images.
Bibliography of the History of Art This link opens in a new window
A searchable index of abstracts from books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibitions, and journal articles on European and American art. Topics included: painting, sculpture, drawing, prints; decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, popular and folk art. Inlcudes and expands on its predecessor indexes, RAA-Repertoire d’Art et d’Archeologie (1973 – 1989) and RILA-International Repertory of the Literature of Art (1975 – 1989).
International Bibliography of Art This link opens in a new window
The definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field. Years of Coverage: 1945 - present

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