Take a look at this image, what words come to mind?

Gunn, F. (2020, June 20th). A Young woman takes part in a Black Lives Matter demonstration at Queen's Park in Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS. Ebsco Image Collection. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=imh&AN=imh2635691&site=ehost-live

Open online image resources

MRU Licensed Image Resources

Reverse Image Searching:

• TinEye Reverse Image Search allows you to search for uses of a specific image online.  This can be helpful when your current source does not permit your desired use, or when it is an image used again and again and you need more source information  - it is also always good practice to track down the original source/owner so you can cite the image
   
• Another option is to right click on an image and select "Search Google for image" which will use Google Lens to do something similar.

Search Google Scholar - Search broadly

Google Scholar is another great way to find peer-reviewed/scholarly material as well as Grey Literature. Don't forget to set your "scholar settings" to MRU Library when you are working from a personal device or from off-campus! 

• Click Settings from the top left menu
• Click Library Links
• Search Mount Royal University and select the two results that come up & save

"Chaining" is a technique by which you can follow works cited by a work and works citing a work backwards and forwards in time to find discussion of same or similar topics and Google Scholar is my personal fave for easy chaining.

Search the Library Search 

for items in our online and print collections. Consider the keywords or terms that scholars might use in discussing images:. Consider whether  you are using terminology specific to the image, social justice or feminist movement you are looking for? Is there more than one word for an idea (synonyms?) or spelling of a word?

• Use quotation marks to keep phrases together - "Black Lives Matter"

• Use  AND to combine search terms - "anti-choice" AND protester

• Use OR to connect two or more similar terms - BLM OR "Black Lives Matter"

• Use wild cards to substitute a letter or suffix with a symbol - demonstr*

How to use information ethically

When your assignment requires you to use images, consider the following:

• Do you have the right to use the image in your project? (see the MRU copyright guide for more information)
• How does your instructor want you to cite the photo in your paper, on your slides, or on your poster?
  • with a figure note (see the handout below or chapter 7 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition) 
  • using a regular in-text citation with the image creator's last name and year below the image  e.g. (Smith, 2015)

Citation is giving attribution to researchers, scholars, activists and other knowledge and information-producers. The reasons you cite:

• To give credit where credit is due – to avoid plagiarizing
• To give information about a source so people can find it

Typically, you need to cite:

• In text
• At the end (reference list)