History of Science OnlineCourse Info: HSCI 3013 - section 995 - Fall 2008 |
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Crediting Images: Some Guidelines
In the same way that you supply a Bibliography reference for any of the text sources that you use, you must also provide Image Information for any images that you use in your Web Project. Often, finding the Image Information is the hardest part of the process! People often use images on the Internet without providing any information whatosever about the image. Your job, however, is to provide information about the images that you use! Usually it is best to put this information beneath the image or at the bottom of the page.
Artist and Title for images. Whenever possible, please include the name of the artist and the title of the artwork that you are using. A good website should supply this information for you; if not, you'll have to do some digging. The name of the website is optional, but you must provide a weblink. Here are two examples:
The Wedding of Sir Tristram, 1862, stained glass by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898).
Weblink: http://cgfa.floridaimaging.com/burne/p-burne13.htm
Images without a Title or Artist. If you do not have the name of the image or the artist, then you must give your own verbal description of the image and you must give the name of the website, in addition to the link for the weblink. Here is an example:
Photograph of David Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma.
Website: University of Oklahoma.
Weblink: http://www.ou.edu/connect/excell.html
Images from Books / Exhibits Online. In addition to the weblink, if an image is from a book, give the author, title and date of publication of the book. Also include the page number or equivalent description of the location of the image in the book (e.g., frontispiece, title page, plate number, etc.).
Galileo, Sidereus nuncius, 1610 (title page).
Weblink: Exhibits Online. Courtesy History of Science Collections, OU Libraries.
In this case, the weblink is extremely long and not as meaningful as the name of the website which is the source of the image. In that case, it is okay to link the name of the website, hiding the url within the link, so long as the artist/author and title are known.
Weblinks. The weblink should be a link to a web page (.html, .htm, .php, .asp, etc.), not a link to an image file (.jpeg, .jpg, or .gif). So, for example, if you are using Google Image search, make sure you go to the webpage where the image is found -- Google always provides you with a link to the webpage where the image can be found. The red arrow in the screenshot below shows you where you will find the webpage link in the Google image search results. Click on this webpage link, and then copy the image from that webpage, using this original webpage as the address for the weblink in your Image Information.
Copyright permission. Most websites offering many images have copyright permission statements posted. If you are in doubt about whether or not you can use an image from someone's website, write and ask for permission! For example, Laura Gibbs wanted to use a beautiful image by an artist named Sae Schatz. The website where she found the image had a very strict copyright statement, along with contact information for the artist. So she wrote to the artist and got this reply: "That's cool. I'm happy you like the drawing." That way everybody is happy! She then put a link to the artist's copyright statement and contact information on the webpage where she reproduced the image. Similarly, Kerry Magruder has a beautiful colorized version of a woodcut on his Flat Earth website. It was submitted to him by an artist, Roberta Weir, who sells printed copies to many customers who find her site through the Flat Earth website. We would take any image down if the artist asked us to do so, but usually people are glad to let you use their images for non-commercial purposes, provided that you credit them properly.
Crediting images from Exhibits Online. An "Images Terms of Use" link is found at the bottom of every page in the Exhibits Online website, which gives blanket permission to use the images in any way you wish, so long as you include a credit statement such as "Images courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries." This statement may be placed in one convenient note on the website; it does not need to be repeated for every image.
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HSCI 3013. History
of Science to 17th century
Many thanks to Mythology
and Folklore and other online courses developed by Laura Gibbs.
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