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Video and Images and Art

Learn how to find and credit videos, images, art, and photographs for your papers and presentations

Google Image Search

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Scroll down to Media and try:

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Try filtering your searches -

For example

  • Search with an exact phrase - "lewis hine"
  • For free images that do not have copyright restrictions:
    • ​Select Search Tools
    • Select Usage Rights
    • Select Labeled for noncommerical reuse
  • You can also go to http://www.google.com/advanced_search
    • Scroll down to usage rights and select free to use or share

Missing Information

Often images you find through Google Image search will not have things like the Author or Date. Sometimes you'll have to go to multiple sites to find the information you need. Here are some examples of citing images that do not have this information.

MLA Example:

  • If an image is untitled, create a brief, descriptive title. Do not italicize this title or place it in quotes, and capitalize only the first word and any proper nouns.

  • Use N.p. if no publisher

  • Use n.d. if no date of publication

  • If there is no author, then begin with the description of the image.

Author's last name, First. Brief description of untitled image. Date of Work. Title of webpage, website publisher. Medium [Web]. Date accessed.

Child Labor in China. n.d., N.p. thomasvan.com. Web. 21 April, 2015.

APA Example:

(No Author)
      Title of work [Type of work]. (Year image was created). Retrieved from URL (address of web site)

 (No Author, No Title, No Date)
       [Subject and type of work]. Retrieved from URL (address of web site)

[Child labor in China]. Retrieved from http://www.thomasvan.com/wp-content/files/child-labour.jpg

Citing Images from the Web

Citing Images from a Web site:

MLA Examples:

Author's last name, First. Title of Work. Date of Work. Title of webpage, Web site Publisher. Medium [always "Web" for web sites]. Date accessed.

Hine, Lewis W. Glass Works. Midnight. 1908. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Web.18 Feb. 2015.

Hine, Lewis W. Breaker Boys. Smallest is Angelo Ross. Hughestown Borough Coal Co. Pittston, Pa. 16 Jan., 1911. Online Public Access, Archives.gov. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.

  • Select MLA Citations from the menu on the left
  • From the dropdown menu select 69. Work of art for another example

APA Examples:

Artist Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Date). Title of the artwork [Format]. Retrieved from URL (address of web site)

Hine, L.W. (1908) Midnight [JPEG]. Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/nclc.01151/

Hine, L.W. (1911). Breaker boys. Smallest is Angelo Ross [PNG]. Retrieved from http://research.archives.gov/description/523384

 

Limiting

Limiting your search

After you've tried a search you can limit by selecting the Google gear

  • then select Advanced search

Google tool gear and link to advanced search 

  • Scroll down to Narrow your results by and limit your search by producer type, select site or domain:
  • .gov, for U.S. Government
  • .ca.gov for California government
  • .org, for non-profit organization
  • .edu for a college or university in the United States
  • .mil  for U.S. military server

You can also do this right in the search bar by typing site:

For example site:edu or site:ca.gov or