alamy – Open, Unedited Collection of Images
http://www.alamy.com/

Launched in 1999, Alamy revolutionised stock photography by creating the world’s first open, unedited collection of images (35.55 million stock photos and 215,692 videos). Their pictures come from anyone who wants to sell – a diverse mix of professional photographers, enthusiastic amateurs, stock agencies, news archives, museums and national collections. They have become the largest and most comprehensive online photo resource, offering unrivalled choice to picture buyers around the world. Their customers are as diverse as our contributors, ranging from press and publishing groups, advertising and design agencies and corporate marketing departments to bloggers, internal communication departments and individual buyers. They focus on making sure customers are able to find the right image quickly and easily, constantly improving our search technology and developing new tools to make our site lightning quick and simple to use. Their entrepreneurial flair is combined with a fair and philanthropic approach to business. They split sales equally with our contributors. They also give back the vast proportion of their profits – 89% since 2006 – to medical research. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™.