Library Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Instructor Guide: Find Open Images/Media

Find Open Images/Media

Creative Commons Search
Creative Commons Search is a tool that searches several sources (Flickr, Rijksmuseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.) for images, music, video, and other media protected under a Creative Commons Licence.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of free books, movies, music, and more. The material is organized into various thematic or institutional collections.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons contains over 27 million freely usable media files, including images, sounds, and videos. The highest quality items are ‘Featured’ by the site and appear in picture of the day and picture of the year selections.

Europeana
Europeana is an archive of millions of digitized items from European cultural heritage institutions. Multiple formats (image, video, text, sound) are available.
Flickr Commons
Flickr Commons is a repository for historical images from cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, museums, and archives. Most material has “no known copyright restrictions” and is free for noncommercial use. Please check licences.
New York Public Library: Public Domain Collections
Over 180,000 items from the New York Public Library's Digital Collections are in the public domain and available as high resolution downloads.
Rijksmuseum Rijks Studio
High resolution images of almost 600,000 works of art from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands have been made available for free download under a Creative Commons licence.
Pixabay
Pixabay is a collection of over 1 million high-quality stock-like images. All images, except the images watermarked with Shutterstock can be used with no restrictions. Users can 'like' or favorite images, providing a means of evaluation.
Unsplash
Unsplash is a collection of high resolution photographs which are licensed by Unsplash so you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.
I-Open
Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
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All images require attribution, and are licenced under various levels of Creative Commons licensing unless licensing is not listed on an image which means you should contact the journal. Collection is from The Open Access Subset of PubMed Central (PMC), a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the Indiana University hospital network, the Orthopaedic Surgical Anatomy Teaching, and the Collection at the USC Digital Library.
USA.Gov Search
Wide variety of Public Domain materials and topical photos that can be used in teaching