Library Guides: Art, Design & Visual Studies: Finding Images & Streaming Videos

Streaming Video Databases

Albertsons Library has several streaming video databases such as Alexander Street, Films on Demand, and New World Cinema.

Databases with Images Available Through Albertsons Library

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Browse scholarly journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Includes over 2 million rights cleared Artstor images.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Access and cross-search Oxford's art reference works, Grove Dictionary of Art and Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Provides global coverage of art, architecture, and design with peer-reviewed articles and images of works of art, structures, plans and artists signatures.

Open Access Images at Museums

Many large museums now make their Open Access image collections available to the public. A few are listed below.

Open Access at the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"including over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks, available for free and unrestricted use"
Open Access at the National Gallery of Art
"More than 50,000 images are available for download"
Open Content Program | The Getty
Includes more than 165,000 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute
Open Access Images - Art Institute of Chicago
"Over 50,000 images of works in the collection believed to be in the public domain"

To find additional Open Access image collections, do a search in a browser using one of these searches:
museums AND open access
<name of museum> AND open access

<name of museum> AND open image

Example: Louvre AND open image

Image Indexes

Web Gallery of Art
"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries."
Artcyclopedia
Search by artist, title, location or art museum.