Open Educational Resources

National Gallery of Art

• The National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in our permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

• In February 2017, The Met introduced its Open Access Initiative which makes all images of public-domain artworks and basic data on all accessioned works in its collection available for unrestricted use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Now anyone can download, share, and remix images and data about artworks in The Met collection.

Pixabay

• Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing royalty-free images, videos, audio and other media. All content is released by Pixabay under the Content License, which makes it safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for certain commercial purposes.

Pexels

• Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages. We have hundreds of thousands free stock photos and every day new high resolution photos will be added.

British Library

• More than million 17th, 18th and 19th century images from books held in the British Library.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

• Contains links to a wide range of multimedia objects form libraries, archives and museums around the United States (so not international).
• The copyright status of items vary because it is collected from many sources. However, many items are public domain or available for re-use, and there is information in a "rights" field for each item.

Earth Science World Images

• A collection of photographs of all aspects of Earth Science.

Europeana

• Digital photographs resources from Europe's galleries, museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections.

Flickr: Creative Commons

• A collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.

Archive of American Television

• A collection of interviews of people involved in broadcast history.

British Pathe

• A collection of films and clips from 1890 - 2011.

British University Film Gateway

• The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,700 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials representing more than 40 subject areas.

Internet Archive Stock Footage

• A collection of stock footage clips submitted by Internet Archive users. These clips are designed to be used in other videos in accordance to creative commons.

Internet Archive Moving Image

• Over 1.5 million digitized videos and clips, including cartoons, commercials and classic films, many public domain or available via Creative Commons license.

Library of Congress Videos

• The Library of Congress collection early historic films and general presentations and lectures sponsored

National Archives Videos

• The National Archives' YouTube videos comprised of films from the collection as well as presentations and lectures.

Nature Videos

• You can also visit the Nature Video YouTube channel which enables you to easily embed and share our videos through websites, mobile devices, blogs and email.

Nature Podcasts

• Each week Nature publishes a free audio show. Every show features highlighted content from the week's edition of Natureincluding interviews with the people behind the science, and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering science around the world.

Smithsonian Channel

• A collection of videos on various topics including science, history, culture and arts.

VIMEO Creative Commons

• A gateway to films under the creative commons license.

• A collection of shorts films on various topics.