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Searching for images in the Five College Libraries

Search for books with images using Discover. Use the Five College catalog filter to focus your search to books in the Five College libraries.

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Library records for books with images contain the keywords: “illustrations,” “pictorial works,” “plates,” or “color plates.” You can find books with images by including these terms along with your other search term(s). 

  • For example, if you were looking for books with images of birds, you could search for birds AND illustrations

You can also search the Amherst College Digital Collections (ACDC), a repository of images, texts, videos, and more from the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. Digital images for scholarship and teaching in architecture and the visual arts may be found through our JSTOR image collections.

Access digital images through these library databases or online resources:

Searching for “hidden” images in article databases

Many indexes and multidisciplinary databases will allow you to filter your search to articles containing images, photographs, or illustrations. 

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Look for search options such as "search within captions" or "search by illustration type". You can also find images in these resources by using keywords such as "illustration" in your search.

For more about finding and using images, visit the Image Research Guide.