Finding images
University image library
The Communications Office has an extensive image library for use in all the University’s promotional literature. A selection of these images are available in the online image library.
Please contact Alice Jenkins on 2063 or alice.jenkins@york.ac.uk if you are looking for a particular image of the University to use in a publication or PowerPoint presentation.
Creative Commons
There are many free, high quality images available to download from the internet under Creative Commons licensing. A Creative Commons licence means that the creator of the image has released it with "some rights reserved". This could mean that you can use the image however you like, as long as you credit the creator, or it may be that you only use the image in non-profit work. Whatever rights the creator has given, they will be shown alongside the image.
Two sources of Creative Commons images are:
You should only use images which you have permission to use. Images found on websites that do not use Creative Commons licensing should only be used if you have the permission of the copyright holder.
Stock photography
If your budget allows it, images can be purchased from stock photography websites. Images from stock photography site are usually sold as either royalty-free or rights-managed:
- royalty-free images are bought for a one-off fee, after which you can use the image for multiple purposes.
- rights-managed images are priced depending on where the image will be used, and how many times it will be reproduced. If you had purchased an image to use on your website, you would have to pay again if you decided you also wanted to use it in a newsletter.
