UCC Library: Images: Images in books & databases

Library databases with images

Databases available through UCC Library that provide access to images

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.

The database features PDF content dating back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in searchable PDF format.
Artstor Digital Library
The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring over 2 million images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository.

It is the most comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, offering a broad view of art, architecture and all aspects of visual and material culture, as well as archaeological and anthropological objects. All images are accompanied by comprehensive metadata and are rights-cleared for educational use.
Britannica Academic
This resource provides access to more than 120,000 articles.

Hathi Trust
Choose advanced search, limited to photographs and pictorial works/visual material, full view only

JSTOR
JSTOR provides a comprehensive digital archive of important schorlarly journals. It offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings.

Access is available to the following collections: Ireland Collection, Arts and Sciences I to XI, and the Life Sciences Collection.
Oxford Art Online
This resource provides access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.

Finding Library books with images

Search the Library Catalogue for e.g. Van Gogh and then check the DESCRIPTION at the bottom of the record - in this example above it indicates that this book consists of chiefly coloured illustrations.

The Library's printers/photocopiers can also scan. Remember that you must comply with Copyright Legislation when copying/scanning/printing. See further information under the Copyright tab of this guide.