When I had a website, I titled the section "Published" and included screen shots of the various publications.

I would say its fair use.  It's not uncommon for publishers to provide tear sheets to their writers and photographers.

Then just list them with perhaps a link to the web publications.

Quote from: BelIblis on January 06, 2012, 16:39

I don't really want to use tearsheets/screengrabs, because I want to keep the web design & appearance as minimalistic as possible.

I understand, but why would people believe your claims?
If I saw that someone claimed to have had photos used by a company, I'd want to see that.
Then you get into difficulties like what if the company changed their website if you just linked to the page (so your pic isn't there now). Even if you screendumped, someone might check out their page and it might have changed. Difficult.  

I am intrigued about what others do, so thumbs up for this thread.

To be honest, it's not unusual NOT to display tear sheets or links. I've seen quite a few websites from (top) photographers who simply put an A-Z list down.
Of course, there may be a certain amount of untruthful claims. But I think potential clients "see through" that if the actual photography isn't that good, or the overall feel isn't professional.
Besides that, I think on the long run it'd be professional suicide to claim fake blue-chip clients. It's a relatively small industry, and one way or another things usually come out.

Back to square one... other than tearsheets: any ideas for how to phrase it?

Here's an idea... take a screenshot and save it as a .jpg on your web site server.  In your list, include a link to the .jpg file.  That way, the list is minimal and clean, and a client can click on the link if he/she wishes to verify it or see it in context.

I'd be interested to know how you're able to find this information.  I, too, would like to know where/how my material is being used.  I might like to put such a list on my web site as well.

Best so far: Google Image Search. Easy peasy via Chrome. Pics indexed are increasing all the time, so worth revisiting whenever you're at a loose end. A couple of weeks ago, the search results were off the wall, but it seems to be back to normal (good) now. Start with your best-sellers. Beware, you'll find loads of misuses (and even more image thefts, where one person has paid for the images and lots of people have lifted it from their site) and will waste a lot of emotional energy wondering what to do about them.

Also your name (you gave to the agency) +agency name, e.g. "Joe Bloggs" =iStockphoto, sometimes your username +agency (only works if they've credited you). Sometimes you get different results in different search engines.

I've got 202, screendumped in a folder, and I'm a small player.

I use "In Print" as a title for a gallery of tearsheets. While I am 'published' on many websites, I haven't added them to my In Print gallery to keep the consistency/veracity of the title:

http://www.danhowellphotography.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=4