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Multimedia Databases

• American Memory - Illustrations, motion pictures, photographs, and sound recordings from the Library of Congress.
• Classical Music Library - Listen to classical music and opera recordings [more details].
• Corbis Images for Education - Photographs and images for educational use [more details].
• eLibrary Curriculum Edition - A multidisciplinary database with images and video clips [more details].
• Grove Art - The standard encyclopedia of artists with links to images [more details].
• History Study Center - A history database with thousands of images and video clips [more details].

 

Multimedia Web Sites

• Art Resource - More than three million images of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks.
• Ad*Access - Advertisement images from 1911 to 1957.
• Advertising in America, 1850-1920 - Advertising images from 1850 to 1920.
• American Rhetoric - Audio or video files of notable public speeches.
• Animal Diversity Web - Images and sounds of various animal species.
• Architecture Visual Resources Library - Architectural images from the University of California at Berkeley.
• Artcyclopedia - A guide to art images on museum Web sites.
• Art Images for College Teaching - Art and architectural works in the public domain.
• Digital Archive of American Architecture - American buildings arranged by period and type of building.
• Digital Flora of Texas - Photographs and illustrations of Texas flowers.
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture - A collection of documents and images with links to related sites.
• FreeFoto - 70,000 images that are available for private non-commercial use.
• New York Public Library Picture Collections Online - Historic photographs from the collections of the New York Public Library.
• NBII Digital Image Library - Images of wildlife from the U.S. Geological Survey.
• Oyez - U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia - Audio recordings from U.S. Supreme Court sessions.
• Planetary Photojournal - NASA images by planet or topic.
• Public Health Image Gallery - Illustrations, photographs, and slides from the Center for Disease Control.
• Visible Earth - NASA images of Earth with views of geographic regions and coverage of earth science topics.
• Web Gallery of Art - A virtual museum of European painting and sculpture from the 12th to mid-19th centuries.

 

Multimedia Search Engines

• AltaVista - Search for audio, video, and image files. Allows some specification of formats.
• blinkx - Claims to be the biggest video search engine. Searches audio, video, television, and podcasts.
• Google Image Search - Claims to be the biggest image search engine.
• Yahoo Image Search - Search the Alta Vista image database with advanced search options.
• Yahoo Video Search - Search for videos using many advanced search options.
• Internet Archive - Search audio, video, images, and texts.
• OAIster Search - Search digital libraries with audio, video, images, and texts.
• Podscope Search multimedia blogs and podcasts -- including radio and television.
• Podzinger Search podcasts -- including radio and television.
• YouTube - Not a search engine, but a popular database for videos contributed by members.

 

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