Library Guides: Finding Images: Databases

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Image Databases

ARTStor
A digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.
Partial funding was provided by the Student Fee Capital Improvement Committee.

Date Coverage: Varies

Maximum Users: Unlimited

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User's Guide: https://support.artstor.org/Images-Objects

Vireo Web: Mu Dept. of Art & Archaeology's online image collection
Log in with your MU user name and password. For more information and additional sources for images see the Visual Resources Center.

Searching for Images within Journals and Magazines

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than an abundance of journals and covers extensive academic disciplines and provides comprehensive content, including PDF back-files, videos, and searchable cited references.
Contains 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Date Coverage:Varies; primarily 1970s-present with some titles covering earlier dates

Maximum Users: Unlimited

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Auto Alerts: http://libraryguides.missouri.edu/alerts/ebsco
PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's free article search engine, containing article references from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, plus publisher-supplied and out-of-scope citations from science and chemistry journals.

Astronomy Image Explorer
Provides quick and easy access to images, illustrations, graphs, charts, and videos that have been published in peer-reviewed journals
SciVerse
Find relevant methods by searching only in the Materials and Methods section of Elsevier full text articles.

Image Credits

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Image 1 - NASA, ESA, CFHT, CXO, M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis), and A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State University). Image found at hubblesite.org.

Image 2 - Image by Samuel Bourne, found in CAMIO, via The San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art's Gallery.

Image 3 - NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen, with image interpretation from Erik Klemetti, Denison University. Found here at NASA's Visible Earth website.