There are several free websites that may be useful for arts & design studies, in addition to the databases and e-journals that TU Dublin Library subscribes to. Here are a few of them:
| 140,000+ images from over 300 art and design collections across the UK, freely available for non-commercial use in education. | VADS |
| Visual Communications / Typography | Letterform Online Archive |
| Fine Arts | Vincent Van Gogh - The Letters |
| Art & Culture / Virtual Museums | Google Arts & Culture |
| Arts & Education | Arts In Education Portal |
| Art UK (online home for every public art collection in the UK) | Art UK |
| Designer's Critical Alphabet (introduces design students to critical theory and concepts to help them reflect on their design process.) | Designer's Critical Alphabet |
| Irish Prints, Drawings, Photographs, etc. | National Library of Ireland |
| Irish visual art and design | National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) |
| Arts Council of Ireland Information/Documents | The Arts Council |
| Art Library | National Gallery of Ireland Art Library |
| Safe to Create - A Resource For The Irish Arts and Creative Sectors To Promote dignity at work | Safe To Create |
| Visual Arts Collections | British Library Visual Arts Collections |
| Professional Visual Artist Resources | Visual Artists Ireland (VAI) |
| The Louvre Collections (480,000 works from the Musée du Louvre & Musée National Eugène-Delacroix) | Louvre |
| The Art Newspaper | The Art Newspaper |