Finding Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching and Learning

A platform to access various digital media search services such as Google Images, Flickr, Europeana and Wikimedia Commons. Verify whether an individual work is available under a Creative Commons license before reuse.

A single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. Most resources are public domain. Check the license of individual items for reuse.

Millions of photographs uploaded by users. To search for reusable images, in ”Advanced Search”, choose from the pull-down menu the type of license needed (e.g. "Any license", "Creative Common license", etc.)

From the Google Image Advanced Search page, limit your search by "usage rights" (e.g. "Free to use and share, even commercially").

More than 180,000 items in the NY Public Library Digital Collections are in the public domain. Limit your search results to show only public domain materials.

A photo community with thousands of Creative Commons licensed photos in various categories.

Contains clip art and photos released under a Creative Commons license.

Provides 1,000s of free stock photos, vector graphics and illustrations. All images and videos are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.

Contains images in the public domain. All pictures are free to download, edit, share, copy and distribute.

Contains over 170,000 of medical, biomedical, and social history images, both historical and contemporary. All images are available for use under a Creative Commons license.

Online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files. Almost all content may be freely reused subject to certain restrictions and terms of use. Check the license of individual source for reuse.