Images can help illustrate, reinforce, or clarify points or concepts in your text. Authors create their own images for articles, or adapt or reuse images originally created by others. Some images are freely available, such as images that have Creative Commons licenses or are in the public domain (see below) others require that you get permission to use (and sometimes require payment).
These publishers grant automatic permission for you to reuse images published in their journals for this kind of assignment.
Provided that:
Public domain works are no longer under copyright protection and can be used freely without requesting permission. That does not mean that every publicly available image is public domain; in fact, many images are protected by copyright. While no permission to use these images is needed, you still want to include some attribution to show you used something in the public domain if others want to use it as well.
WHERE TO FIND PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES:
Creative Commons-licensed images are still under copyright, but the creators have automatically granted permission to others to use/reuse the images under certain conditions, provided that you 1) give attribution for the work, and 2) use the work within the conditions of the license. There are different CC licenses, which are typically indicated by the images (or text) below. The least restrictive is CC BY, while other license options to exclude commercial use and/or adapting or remixing the work, or require that whoever uses the image has to use the same license as well.
WHERE TO FIND CREATIVE COMMONS-LICENSED IMAGES
![]() CC BY 4.0 Can share and adapt for any purpose, including commercially. |
![]() CC BY-NC 4.0 Can share and adapt, but for non-commercial uses. |
![]() CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Can share for non-commercial purposes only, but not adapt or create derivative works. |
![]() CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Can share and adapt for non-commercial uses, but must use the same license as the original work. |