• All C.O.D. students can get a free Library card. It only takes a minute to get a card.
• See the Library Cards page for more details.
• Cards can be used to check out books, software, general collection videos, and rental videos. Your Library card also gives you access to article databases from home.

• Use the Library website to search for and access most of the resources and services available from the Library.
• Use the Library site to access and find books, videos, journal articles, websites, e-mail and chat reference, the Assignment Calculator, Video tutorials, and more...

• Visit the Reference Desk
• Use our phone, e-mail, or chat reference services
• Colin_Koteles Contact me

You can use the C.O.D. Library Catalog to search for items in the C.O.D. Library. This includes books, videos, and software.

• Use the Quick Search box on the Library home page to search for items by keyword, subject, title, author, or call number.
• Click on "Other search options" for more search choices such as advanced keyword searches.
  • The advanced keyword screen allows you to limit by material type and location.

Location information

By clicking on titles in your search results, you can find details about each item including location and availability information:

• You can use article databases to find magazine and journal articles as well as online encyclopedias.
• From anywhere in the Library site, click the "Databases" link.
• Choose the subject you are researching to get a list of recommended databases.

• From anywhere in the Library site, click the "Web Sites" link.
• Here, you'll find all kinds of special search engines and other types of web search tools.
  • Special search engines can search for images as well as other multimedia files.
  • They can also be used to search special sites like news sites, blogs, Wikipedia, and online book sites.
• Search engine "advanced search" screens can make your searches more powerful.
  • For example, you can use the Google advanced search screen to do things like search within specific websites (site:cod.edu)

• From anywhere in the Library site, click on "Research".
• Click a subject from the list to learn search strategies for finding books, articles, and web sites about your topic.

Images have varying types of restrictions:

• Copyright protected
• Public Domain & Copyright-free
• Royalty-free
• Fair Use Copyright Information
• Creative Commons
  • Creative Commons License Types

Image sites:

• Educational Image Collections
  A collection of image databases and image search engines maintained by the College of DuPage Library. Copyright restrictions vary among collections.
• Wikipedia Public Domain Images
  Extensive collection of online public domain image resources organized by subject
  • Historical images
    (http://www.fromoldbooks.org/)
  • Classical artwork
    (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/)
  • Search engines
    (http://www.everystockphoto.com/)
  • Government images
    (http://nasaimages.org/)
• Flickr Creative Commons Photos
  Large collection of user submitted photos usable under Creative Commons licensing
  100,191,085 CC-licensed photos as of March 29, 2009!
  • Flickr Advanced Search (limit to CC images)
  • Flickr Storm
• MorgueFile
  Thousands of high-resolution photos available for commercial use (small collection but high-res and useful)
• Image*After
  Download images or textures from this site for use in either personal or commercial works.
• Zen Textures
  Newer textures site
• PublicDomainPictures.net
  Small but high-quality collection of public domain images
• More tagged sites on del.icio.us
  There are many image sites to choose from--beware, some are more "free" than others!
• Don't forget video!
  (http://archive.org)