Digital Collections

Image tools

TinEye Reverse Image Search

Flickr - a large database of images

Logos of various institutions that contribute to the Flickr Commons

You may know Flickr as a public photo-sharing site with billions of images. In recent years, many archival image repositories (including the Cornell University Library) have begun sharing their copyright-free images via Flickr Commons, which has become a major image resource.

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons "provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry." You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."