Research Guides: Library 101: Websites & Visual Sources

Finding Credible Websites

For Google search tips and links to more websites recommended by librarians, see the Finding Credible Web Sources research guide.

The Finding Statistical Information research guide includes links to library databases and websites that are good sources of statistical information.

Finding Government Information research guide include links to federal and state government websites.

Google Images is a good place to start to search for images related to most topics.

The Images page of the Art Resources and Finding Images research guide includes links to image archives and other sources of images on the internet.

The following database includes images of works of art. From off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your Pipeline username and password.

Artstor This link opens in a new window A digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a suite of software tools for teaching and research. The collections include contributions from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists.

Google Video allows you to search for videos on YouTube and other video sites.

The following database includes videos on many subjects. From off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your Pipeline username and password.

Kanopy - streaming video collection This link opens in a new window Kanopy is a streaming video resource with a broad collection of over 26,000 films on every subject imaginable and from leading producers such as Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, New Day Films, HBO California Newsreel, and more. Kanopy’s website makes it easy to watch, share and discuss films across campus.