Where to find a TOC image

There are many great places to find TOC images licensed under Creative Commons/Public Domain. The following are just a few suggestions:

• Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, e.g. through cc search
• Photopin: images under creative commons license
• Free Digital Photos e.g. http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Health_And_Beauty_g66.html
• Pixabay
• A nice gallery for mobile pics especially in the developing world: Kiwanja
• To create an image showing a specific webpage or image on a smartphone iPhone4simulator or: iPadpeek
• if you have a screenshot of your app or website, use https://placeit.net/ to create an image with the screenshot on a device like a laptop, phone, with a user
• Search Flickr for cc images (Creative Commons) or use Foter (seems to be mainly FlickR images under cc license).
• Search Google for "condition creative commons" to identify photos that can be used.

Do not use: 

• no logos / words (exceptions for JMIR Res Protoc articles possible, and for "nice" logos that are in line with the article content, but not a university logo etc)
• no wordclouds
• no overly generic stockphotos such as people sitting at a computer, a keyboard, or a stethoscope on a computer etc...
• instead of using a screenshot of a website or app, use https://placeit.net/ to create an image with the screenshot on a device like a laptop, phone, with a user

In the description textbox in the JMIR form when you upload a TOC image, specify the origin of the image, and enter the license/attribution information. Images in the public domain are preferred. However, remember that "Creative Commons" is a license - there is still a copyright owner / source who must be credited in the image description, e.g. "Image Credit: (c) xy, from (URL), licensed under cc-by-nc 3.0" etc.

Alternatively, as TOC image we can also use a figure or a screenshot from a Multimedia Appendix (e.g. frame of a video) from the JMIR article (but only if it is a nice screenshot or shows people, no graphs please). In that case, we assume it is created by the author and licensed under our standard license (cc-by). You do not have to add this information to the figure caption.

See also:

• TOC image guidelines with examples (on JMIR site)
• Copyright considerations and attribution of TOC images
• What makes a good TOC image?

Link for JMIR staff only: 

• Wiki 
• (for staff) Creating a TOC image collage for app/web screenshots from PlaceIt