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Know Before You Go!

To access many of these resources, you must be logged in to the library website.
Don't forget that articles from magazines and journals often contain fantastic images.
Museum collections pages are also excellent sources for images and research material. We've included a few below.
Having your students make presentations? Don't forget to have them caption and list images they use! It's good practice.

ARTstor
2.5 million digital images covering thousands of years of art, architecture, fashion and archeology including contemporary art & design. Free registration required for downloads.

With over 200 collections, use ARTstor's capability to view and save images into a personal folder as well as make presentations. To save groups of images and to print and download images for permitted uses you will need to register.
Berg Fashion Library
Access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, etc.
Vogue Archive
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
Creative Commons Search
Search openly licensed, free-to-use images from across Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, and more. CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.
Digital Commons @ RISD
Digital Commons @ RISD is a digital archive of the creative and scholarly culture of Rhode Island School of Design. It is a collection of outstanding faculty and student work, college records, campus history, and the unique materials of the Library's Special Collections. Use it across other institutions to locate theses, dissertations, and more.

The Museum Computer Network recently compiled (and continues to update) a list of Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections.

Material Connexion
Over 7,000 materials and processes covering the fields of architecture, industrial design, interior design, and textiles. Comprehensive product information, technical specifications, application information, manufacturer profiles, and material images. Register here to establish a personal login account.

Categories: carbon-based materials, cement-based materials, ceramics, glass, metals, natural material derivatives, natural materials, and polymers.
Material Order
Use this search tool to explore the material collections of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), Parsons School of Design, and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). As a RISD student, you have access to many of these samples!
Library Stack
Library Stack collects a variety of digital art publications such as artists’ ebooks, podcasts, filmed lectures, field recordings, typefaces, PDF journals and software.