Research Guides: Research Posters & Presentations: Image & Visualization Resources

Information Visualization Resources

Here are some resources for creating visualizations and infographics for your poster, such as word clouds, maps, and graphs.

Canva
Create graphics using images and text.
ChartBlocks
Easily create charts of different types.
Drawio
Drawio is completely free online diagram editor built around Google Drive, that enables you to create flowcharts, UML, entity relation, network diagrams, mockups and more
Easelly
Create infographics using pre-made templates.
EdWordle
Use to create word clouds by copy/pasting text into the input.
Excel
This links to a beginner's guide to making charts and graphs in Microsoft Excel
Google Sheets
How to use Google Charts with Google Spreadsheets.
Palladio
Use to create maps, galleries, graphs and lists. Originally intended for use in history, but can be adapted to any topic.
Piktochart
Create infographics with charts, maps, icons, images, and texts.
RAWGraphs
Convert data into a large range of eye-catching visualizations.

Image & Icon Resources

ARTstor
Digital art images & descriptive information covering art, architecture & archaeology. As of August 1, 2024, Artstor has been retired and fully integrated into JSTOR, where Artstor content and key functionality can now be accessed. Learn more here.

Creative Commons Search Portal
Use Creative Commons to search across a variety of repositories with openly licensed materials.
Flickr Commons
Flickr Commons provides access to publicly-held photography collections
Google Art Project
"Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces." Find images to refer to and examine during your personal research, but do not include them in papers or presentations.
The Noun Project
Millions of free icons on a vast array of subjects
Science.gov
Science.gov is an official website of the U.S. government providing ready access to the massive stores of federally funded scientific research results and images
Visual Resources Center, UC Berkeley
Images of art and architecture of the world ranging from prehistory to contemporary art.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a database of freely usable media file licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See Creative Commons box for more information about using images.

Creative Commons

Many researchers release their previously unpublished work under a Creative Commons (CC) license, that allows you to authorize some uses of your work, while preventing others. All CC licenses require others to provide attribution to you, if they use any part of your work. You may also choose to license your work only for non-commercial purposes, meaning that it can be used freely for research or teaching, but that no one else may profit from your work financially. CC licenses are legally valid, and can be downloaded and used at no charge.

Creative Commons
A nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. It does not replace copyright; instead it works alongside copyright.
Creative Commons: License Chooser
Tool to select different Creative Commons licenses granting different permissions. Currently in beta testing.

Research Posters & Presentations

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Information Visualization Resources

Image & Icon Resources

Creative Commons