Rules for Citation for Print/Web Resources on OSS and Beyond

By: Ina Conradi |

Dear all, we are used to borrow and download many images from Pinterest. If you keep them on you laptop for your own archive of images for reference it is all ok. The moment you put these images online on OSS Blog please adhere to following rules for citations: 

Citation for a Print Resource (book or periodical):

For an image copied from a print source you need to include two things
1) a citation in the following format
2) a statement of use.

Model: Artist’s name if known. Title of artwork. Date of the artwork. Museum, collection or individual that it belongs to, the city where the owner is located . Title of book or periodical that the image is found in. Author of the book. Location of publisher: publisher, date.
Statement of Use.

Example, Image 1:

Citation: Vinci, Leonardo da. Mona Lisa. 1503-1506. Louvre, Paris. Gardner’s ArtThrough The Ages. By Helen Gardner. Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt College, 2001.

Statement of Use: These materials are included under the fair use exemption and are restricted from further use.


Citation for an Image from the Internet
For an image downloaded or printed out from the Internet you need to include three things:
1) a citation in the following format
2) the description of the image from the website: most museums and many websites require that you use the description that they’ve written to accompany their images on their website.
3) a statement of use.

Model: Artist’s name if known. Title of artwork or description. Date of the artwork.Museum, collection or individual that it belongs to, the city where the owner is located (add this separately if the location is not included in the name of the
owner). Name of the website. Date accessed (day/month/year)
URL (address for the website).
Example, Image 2:

Citation: Pendant Mask from Benin. 16th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 17 Oct. 2002 http://www.metmuseum.org.

Description: Pendant Mask: Iyoba, 16th century Edo, court of Benin; Nigeria Ivory, iron,copper; H. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm) The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972 (1978.412.323)

Statement of Use: These materials are included under the fair use exemption and are restricted from further use..

1 Comment

(Edit) Iskandar Ruhaizat
Hi Ina, For images used in websites but the original owner of the image is unknown nor the terms of use, am I still able to use it and cite the website that uses that image instead of the original owner? How do I go about writing the Statement of Use then? Such as the cover image used for this article: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/health/gait-analysis-is-it-for-me/10560.html

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