A digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a suite of software tools for teaching and research. The collections include contributions from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists.
Provides insight on utilizing Google's incredible searching power to your best academic advantage, featuring tips and tricks to search smarter, whether for text content or images.
Provides an explanation of what it means when an image is available under public domain, outlines differences between public domain and creative commons images, discusses ethical responsibilities of users of images, and gives examples of types of images that are normally available under public domain.
Provides links to dozens of websites on which you can find free stock photos to use for presentations. Be sure to follow copyright requirements noted on each site!
Provides access to millions of images, texts, videos, and sounds from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the United States.
Provides free online access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Contains over 8.1 million cataloged items relating to Art, Design, History, Culture, Science, and Technology, with 860,477 images, videos, audio files, podcasts, blog posts and electronic journals available.
Provides free access to a growing number of digitized items from the Research Library, Special Collections, Photo Archive, and Institutional Archives. These materials range from the 15th century to the present and include books, photographs, manuscripts, archives, and works on paper.
One of the first and largest collections relating to the Bauhaus, the 20th century’s most influential school of art and design. Active during the years of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919–33), the Bauhaus aimed to unite artists, architects, and craftsmen in the utopian project of designing a new world.
Contains a broad range of digital images and data that document the rich history of the Museum, its collection, exhibitions, events, people, and activities.
A not-for-profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available online. It includes articles from leading scholars, writers, archivists, and artists, as well as curated collections of films, audio, images and texts.Tip: To search for images on this site, add site:publicdomainreview.org to your own keywords in a Google search.
Provides some free stock photos posted by members of the site. Other stock photos are available for a small fee. You can also upload your own images for others to use. A toolbar at the top of the page provides many categories in which you can find images.
Contains hundreds of high resolution public domain images with new images added weekly. Some of these images are over 10MB in size, so if they take a little longer to load, that’s why.
Provides images uploaded by Flickr account holders who have chosen to offer their work under Creative Commons license. There are different types of licenses under the Creative Commons license, and images are sorted by type of license.
Provides searchable content you can "share, use and remix," including content you can use for commercial purposes or modify, adapt, or build upon for your own purposes.
A searchable image database created by various faculty, staff and students of the CSU system. Global in coverage, it contains over 50,000 historical images from a wide variety of fields. These images are licensed under a Creative Commons license and may be used for non-profit, educational purposes as long as credit is given to the copyright holders who retain rights to the images.
A warm and inviting community where those interested in the software can hang out with fellow WordPressers to engage in enlightening discussions. This post is titled "13 Sources For Free Public Domain and CC0-Licensed Images."
More than 50,000 U.S. and world maps available online, including historical maps and thematic maps on topics such as climate, energy, ethnography, religion, industry, economy, land use, military, and population.
Contains many copyright-free and public domain images. Browse the Agricultural Research Service images and find high-quality photos, easily by category.
