What is AIRS?

What Makes AIRS DIfferent?

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Part of AIRS distinctiveness stems from the fact that it perfectly meets the criteria for educators by offering three specific advantages over "community-oriented" content:

1. AIRS provides legal re-use of content. It effectively solves the content-usage problem presently faced by all teachers and students in schools and universities, who must contend regularly with issues of plagiarism, copyright violations, and the resulting (expensive) litigation. By offering images on a non-commercial royalty-free basis, AIRS indemnifies teachers and students from action by third parties.
   
   
2. AIRS is an authoritative information resource. Unlike open web sites (such as Wikipedia™ which has recently been criticized for its "social network" approach to knowledge), AIRS is wholly accountable for its content. Images and text are researched and developed precisely as encyclopedias, textbooks, and other scholarly resources have been traditionally produced in the past. There is an internal peer-review process and errors, omissions, and other content-specific issues are handled in strict accord with this process. Teachers in particular greatly prefer this methodology over the purely Internet-based approaches of "collaboration" and "anonymous contribution" found in most free-information web sites.
   
   
3. AIRS accounts can be managed on an IP-address basis. The vast majority of educational institutions provide student access through existing information systems, managing and tracking usage in accordance with their own internal policies. AIRS infrastructure can be set up to comply with nearly any technical requirement an institution may need to impose.

What does AIRS offer?

DOCUMENT COMPOSER See samples of what AIRS can do:

Choose from among thousands of subjects, categories and topics. The remarkable scope and breadth of the AIRS image library offers something for everyone (new images and records are being continuously added). More than 100,000 images and accompanying text records are presently in process or available online for review at CriaImages.com and this number is increasing daily. Any subscribing school or library, its teachers, students or patrons will have unlimited access (24/7) to the complete AIRS image library.

Comprehensive captions from accredited historians and experts accompany all images. Links (keywords) in each image record provide in-depth cross-referencing. The ever-accumulating content of AIRS essentially constitutes a visual encyclopedia of the world (refer to AIRS Editorial and Reference Guidelines and AIRS Image Sources for additional information).

Images can be printed or downloaded individually, or can be assembled into HTML or PDF documents (with accompanying text). The AIRS document assembly system lets you personalize your documents online. You can even enter your own text and format documents according to your requirements.

Users will be able to download or print as many images and/or composed documents as they wish for non-commercial applications, including curriculum development, reports, PowerPoint presentations, research, historical articles, or for inclusion in other documents (see partial applications list below).

What Academic Disciplines are covered by AIRS?

The following list of sample topics offers just a glimpse at a portion of the AIRS image library as applicable to some academic disciplines. With literally millions of images in process, the numbers shown are increasing daily and new topics are continuously being added. You can presently review these images directly at CriaImages.com. Click on any topic to view the present online image collection(s).

NOTE: CriaImages.com image-protection watermarks do not appear on AIRS images. Only a tiny identifying logo appears at the extreme bottom right corner.

Topic or Category (these are just examples)		Currently Online
Agriculture	Farms & Farming	909
Animals		821
Anthropology		3,211
Archeology:	Chinese Dynasties	573
(selected examples)	Egyptology	527
	Greek (Era)	224
	Roman (Era)	437
Architecture		1,784
Art (Visual Arts):	Illustrations	1,901
(selected examples)	Paintings	2,251
	Political Cartoons	330
	Sculpture	1,148
	Aviation	790
Business:	Advertising (Marketing)	9,259
(selected examples)	Posters	1,755
	Slogans (Marketing)	1,508
Criminal Justice		1,755
Design:	Automotive	510
(selected examples)	Bridges	505
	Buildings	1,946
	Dams	69
	Furniture	280
	Towers	411
	Walls	353
Earth Sciences:	Geology	91
(selected examples)	Lakes	415
	Maps (Cartography)	100
	Mountains	554
	Oceans	467
	Rivers	1,211
	Volcano (Volcanoes)	146
	Fashions (Apparel)	484
	Historic Landmarks	1,383
Horticulture	Flowers	2,897
	Plants	11,209
	Shrubs	909
	Trees	1,416
	Vegetables	1,008
History:	Abraham Lincoln	1,026
(selected examples)	Activists	230
	Actors	6,243
	African Americans (Prominent)	479
	American Civil War	3,942
History (continued):	American Civil War (full color)	643
(selected examples)	American Revolution	132
	American West (19th Century)	1,341
	Catherine the Great	182
	Disasters	257
	French (History)	1,637
	German (History)	1,381
	Great Depression (1930s)	388
	Holocaust	155
	The Jazz Age (1920s)	129
	Marie Antoinette	189
	Military Leaders	2,400
	North American Indians	1,145
	Personalities (staff illustrators)	273
	Politicians (worldwide)	1,705
	Russian (History)	589
	Sports	1,304
	U.S. Presidents	2,090
	World War I	436
	World War II	1,141
Literature	Authors	2,013
Performing Arts:	Ballet	72
(selected examples)	Dance	322
	Film & Motion Pictures	13,179
	Legitimate Stage	72
	Music & Musicians	374
Religion	Christian	517
	Buddhism	192
Labor		177
Marine Life:	Fish	218
	Reptiles	55
Military	Military Science	3,159
	Weapons & Weaponry	179
Ornithology		463
Recreation		214
Ships		1,633
Technologies:	Clothing	225
	Pottery	510
	Tools	118
Transportation		487

How can AIRS help us?

In general, AIRS can be used for any non-commercial application. There are so many ways to make use of AIRS that we can offer only a partial list of possibilities, some of which include:

Where Can I Get More Information?

If you have questions not covered here, we invite you to communicate with us directly:

Bruce Herrick, Sales Director
Phone: 847-255-9854
Fax: 847-255-9233
Email: sales@airsimages.com