Library: Open Educational Resources: Using Images

Getting Started

Our collection includes a number of digital resources that include images you can use in your projects. Here's a list of great choices:

Creative Commons Search
Find content you can share, use and remix.
Art Institute of Chicago
Thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection + books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.
Europeana Collections
Artworks, artefacts, books, videos, and sounds from across Europe.
Flickr Creative Commons
Browse or search Flickr content under each type of license.
Google Advanced Image Search
Filter results to find images, videos, or text that you have permission to use.
Internet Archive Book Images
Tons of old school copyright-free images from the Internet Archive.
MorgueFile
Free photos for creatives, by creatives.
Pixabay
All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.
Prints & Photographs Online | Library of Congress
Images from the LC Collections now in the public domain.
Public Libary of Science | Open for Discovery
PLOS is a nonprofit publisher, innovator and advocacy organization.
Unsplash
Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.10 new photos every 10 days.
Wikimedia Commons
Freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
85 FREE Stock Photo Resources
This list evaluates dozens of sites and includes their licensing info and the kind of attribution required.