Accessing and Citing Images
Write down the Volume, Issue and Page number from an Art Full Text search
Search the catalog to see if we subscribe to print and get the call number if so
Use a scanner on the 2nd floor (near reference desk) to make color jpegs
1) Find the original image.
2) Save a copy to the desktop.
3) Start the program Paint.net (windows menu, type in "paint", it's the one with .net on the end)
4) Open the file in Paint.net
5) Click the Image menu and choose Resize
6) At the bottom of the resize dialog, you'll see the "Print Size" area. Change one of those two to 15 inches (the larger one -- so if the width is larger to start with, change that one; if height is larger, change that). The other dimension will automatically adjust itself.
7) Click okay to do the resizing. It may take a moment.
8) Save the file. Just click okay on the "Save Configuration" window that will pop open, that's for adjusting quality settings. The default is fine.
9) Put the file on a thumb drive.
10) Can print the image on 11x17 paper.
- Grove Art Online/Oxford Art OnlineOnline art reference sources: Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. There's a \Search for images only\" search box."
An image from a Website should include:
Artist. Title of Work. Date of Work. Image Source. Database/Web Site. Date Accessed. URL (optional).
Include as many of these elements as possible
A scanned image from a book or journal should include:
Name of artist, Name of item in italics [Art Reproduction]. Name of Source in Italics Volume Number. (Publication Date):Issue Number.
For example:
Voulkos, Peter. Sculpture From A Stacked Clay Form [Art Reproduction]. Ceramics Monthly 35.(1987): 43.
If the item is not named you could describe it, such as Teapot [Art Reproduction]