FAQS

As a student you can often use images you find on the web in your student papers and presentations, because this typically falls under fair use. Learn more about creating refereces for clip art or stock images straight from APA, and how to cite images in APA style. Also, keep in mind, once you are no longer a student, using images from the web without getting permission and/or paying royalty fees will likely be a violation of copyright law.

To avoid legal, copyright and ethical problems related to images, you can adopt one or all of the following practices:

1. Use images you have personally created and/or photographs you have personally taken in your papers, presentations, etc.
2. Use Microsoft ClipArt images in your papers, presentations, etc.
3. Use images from the public domain and/or that have a Creative Commons license
4. Use images that are rights-cleared, such as those from the library's FABULOUS Encyclopedia Britannica Image Quest database.
   • Image Quest is easy to use
   • Image Quest images are legal to use...as a student and as an employee, even after you graduate
   • Image Quest images have the information you need to cite them in APA style!!
   • Example image from Image Quest is shown in Figure 1:
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     • Figure 1: Aerial photo of Waimea Bay Beach Park, Oahu, Hawaii. Taken from:  R. Francis (n.d.) Waimea Beach [Photograph]. Retrieved from Encyclopedia Britannica Image Quest database. Copyright 2018 by Photolibrary.

Remember that you need to cite your images. We have how-to and help information for that, too!