When you are given the Add permission in a collection, you can add images to that collection either by adding them one at a time or in a batch. You can access this and other features on the collection's...

How do I upload individual images into a Curated Collection in Image Finder?

Images in curated collections have more metadata, so searching for images specifically within curated collections can be more focused than searching for images from books and journals.

For example, the...

How do I search for images in a Curated Collection?

Besides the metadata of a selected image is shown in the Image details pop-up window, you can view image usage and view a found image in context of the source material that it is in.

See How do I search...

What information is in image details?

You can import images into a collection in bulk. Importing images can be used when you have identified a number of images in existing publications that you believe can be placed in a collection, especially...

How do I import multiple images into a Curated Collection into Image Finder?

Click on any image thumbnail in the search results grid and the Image details pop-up window is displayed. It contains metadata for the selected image and actions you can perform. The attributes of metadata...

How do I view image details?

Before you can use Image Finder to source images, you must acknowledge the legal disclaimer. This is important because reusing images is NOT an unconstrained activity. For many images, reusing requires...

Do I need to obtain permissions to reuse images I found in Image Finder?

The high resolution version of some images in figures lists is available to download immediately (e.g. Journal images and Elsevier Collection images).



When an image has been selected from a journal...

How do I download high resolution images from a Figures List?

The Status column in a figures list displays the availability of the image in a figures list. The status indicator is also used to perform an action depending on the status. See What are the actions that...

What do the image request statuses in Figures Lists mean?

When images are added to a collection, they are given a unique ID by the system. This ID is embedded inside the image's metadata and is carried with the image when it is downloaded.

If the image is then...

How do I track image usage?

To add a member to a curated collection, click 'Add member' when you are managing members. The Add member pop-up window is displayed for you to enter the Windows user ID of a specific use.

Click on each...

How do I add members to a Curated Collection?

If you need to obtain permissions to reuse images that you found in Image Finder, you can click the 'Permissions' link in the legal disclaimer when you log in for more information. See Do I need to obtain...

How do I obtain permissions to reuse images I found in Image Finder?

Besides images from books and journals and curated collections, Image Finder also has a Figures Lists feature.

Figures lists enable authors and others to contribute figures to a book project. A figure...

What are Figures Lists in Image Finder?

Depending on the availability status of the figure's image, you can click on the status icon for images in a figure list to initiate the next action that will progress the status of the image. Hover over...

What are the actions that I can perform on those figures in a Figures List?

A figures list can include images that are found using Image Finder or from other sources. Regardless of the sources, creators and content managers of a figures list must go through the permission seeking...

How do I add a figure into a chapter in a Figures List?

After you added contributors to chapters in a figures list, you can either send an invitation to individual contributors or you can send invitations to all contributors for all chapters in a selected figures...

How do I invite Contributors to a chapter in Figures Lists?

The high resolution version of some images is available to download immediately (e.g. Journal images and Elsevier Collection images).



How


	Download: Click 'Download' high resolution to download the...

How do I download high resolution images for images found in Image Finder?

After an image has been added to a collection and if you have the Add permission, you can update the metadata of that image at any time, if required.



How


	Image thumbnail: To update the image's metadata...

How do I update an image in a Curated Collection?

Owner, co-owners, and content managers of a figures list can decide which chapters a contributor can participate in by selecting and deselecting the relevant chapters.




	Select/deselect all chapters:...

How do I edit a Contributor in a Figures List?

A figures list is connected to an active book project (i.e. a book that is being developed). The assumption is that the owner (creator) of a figures list is aware of the book project and therefore knows...

How do I create a Figures List?

After you have found the images that you want by searching in Image Finder, you can do one of the following to obtain the high resolution versions of the images that you found:


	If they are book images,...

How do I obtain high resolution images for images found in Image Finder?



How


	Search tab: The search tab is permanently displayed when you are accessing the Search features. Click 'Search results' to display your search results or initiating a new search whenever you have...

How do I search by keywords?

You can add an image that you already have the file into a figures list. To do this, click the vertical ellipsis of a figures list and select the 'Add figure from file' option from the menu.

Fill in information...

How do I add a figure from an image not found in Image Finder into a chapter in a Figures List?

To create a collection, you need to submit a request via the Email option at the bottom of this page. Please supply the following information about the collection that you want to be created:


	Collection...

How do I create a Curated Collection?

In a figures list, for images that you have sourced from an Elsevier book by using Image Finder, you need to submit a request for a copy of the original artwork from the Global Book Archive because the...

How do I request high resolution images from a Figures List?



The Request Cart is a two tiered list with the top tier representing a publication and the second tier representing all the images that have been requested from that publication. This enables you to...

How do I manage a Request Cart?

As the owner(s) of a collection, you can assign permissions to other users and define what they can do with the collection. A collection can have more than one owner. The collection owners are specified...

How do I set permission on a Curated Collection?

The source and metadata of book and journal images in Image Finder comes from the production of books and journal process. If the source or metadata is missing in the process, images cannot be found.

For...

Why can't I find some images?

Owner, co-owners, and content managers of a figures list decide who can contribute figures to book projects. It is a two-step process to add and invite contributors. First, you need to add contributors...

How do I manage Contributors in a Figures List?

There are a number of actions that you can perform in a chapter. These actions can be accessed from the action column in the relevant row of a figures list.



How


	Edit: Click 'Edit' to edit the chapter...

How do I manage a chapter in a Figures List?

Figures lists enable their Owners (creators) and Co-owners, Content Managers (editorial staff), and Authors (external users) to collaborate in the discovery and selection of images when illustrating a...

How do I use a Figures List?

The primary feature of Image Finder is 'Search'. The search feature is presented on the 'Search results' tab in the application's ribbon when the Search feature has been selected in the application’s main...

How do I search for images?

You can add individual filters or combine the filters to construct a search. For more information see How do I search for images?

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	How

	
		Filters: The filters...

How do I use the search filters?

The features of Image Finder are available according to the following characteristics of the user:


	Employee status
	Role (applies only to Figures List features)


In general, anyone with an RELX e-mail...

What are the user types in Image Finder?

You can manually add chapters into your figures lists.




	List tab: When you open a list from the 'Your lists' tab, it is added as a tab in the 'List' tab area. Click on the tabs to switch between open...

How do I add a chapter into a Figures List?

Image Finder supports two types of collections: derived and curated. See What types of images are available in Image Finder?


	
		
			
			Derived collections
			
			These are created as a side effect...

How do I manage a Curated Collection?

If a thumbnail is unavailable for some reason, the search results grid displays the "No Image Available" message for that image instead.



This may occur if one of the following occurs:


	The thumbnail...

Why are some images not shown in the search results?

When setting up a figures list, the owner (creator) of the list can define the characteristics of figures being added into the list. These characteristics apply to all figures in the same figures list.

See...

How do I specify the annotation of figures in my Figures Lists?

After you have found the images that you want by searching in Image Finder, you can put them into a Request Cart, then you can submit the request to Global Book Archive.

When you are ready to request...

How do I request high resolution images for images found in Image Finder?

After you have found an image using Image Finder, you can add the image to any of the figures lists to which you contribute.

Depending on the source of the found image, you need to do one of the following:


	If...

How do I add a figure from an image found in Image Finder into a chapter in a Figures List?

Owners, co-owners, and content managers of a figures list can manage content managers in their figures lists. Please note that a user can only be assigned to one of the three roles in a figures list, as...

How do I manage Content Managers in my Figures Lists?

Both internal (RELX employees and contractors) and external users can contribute to figures lists. Contributors can only be invited by owner, co-owners, or content managers of a figures list.



How


	Contributor...

How do I add Contributors to a Figures List?

Each figures list has an owner (creator) to begin with. The owner can then add more individuals with Elsevier (elsevier.com) or Reed Elsevier (reedelsevier.com) IDs to be co-owners of the list. Then those...

How do I manage Co-owners in a Figures List?

After an image has been added to a collection and if you have permission, you can remove the image from the collection at any time, if required.

Removing an image from a collection does not affect any...

How do I remove an image from a Curated Collection?

When you receive an auto-generated email from Image Finder with the Subject Line: 'Figure list invite - [Figures List Name]' you are invited to contribute. Click the 'Click here' link in the body of the...

How do I accept the invitation to be a Contributor?

If your workflow requires it, you can export all of the project metadata from a figures list as a comma separated values (CSV) file.

Metadata included in the export file



	Project DACK
	Project title
	Project...

How do I export the information of a Figures List?

The metadata of book and journal images in Image Finder comes from the production of books and journal process.

See What types of images are available in Image Finder?

Please contact us using the Email...

Why is the metadata for images incorrect?

There are several actions that you can perform on a figure. These actions can be accessed from the action menu in the relevant row of a figures list.



How


	Editing the figure: Click 'Edit' to edit...

How do I manage a figure in a Figures List?

An image may appear in many books and journal issues over time. So while there may be logically one image, in practice there are many instances of that image, at least one for every publication that the...

Why do some images appear multiple times in search results?

You can view the contents of a collection by searching for images in the collection. If your search is without any search criteria, it enables you to view the entire collection. This is helpful for managing...

How do I view the image content of a collection?

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