LibGuides: SWIC Faculty guide to Open Educational Resources (OER): Find OER multimedia

Images, Video, Audio

Each site linked below may contain content which may vary in open licenses or usage permissions.

Inclusive image sites:

American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action
Photo repository of real, diverse preK–12 students and teachers in different education and tech categories. Licensed CC-BY-NC (Creative Commons - Attribution - NonCommercial).
If/Then Collection
"A digital asset library of women STEM innovators, for educational and other noncommercial use." Scroll down page for categories of images and videos, including Women in Tech, #SheCanSTEM, Health & Medicine, and more.
Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary
Stock photo library featuring trans and non-binary models. Licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons - Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives) license.
PICNOI
Stock photo library of diverse multi-racial images. Licensed CC-BY (Creative Commons - Attribution).
Black Illustrations
Illustrations of Black people, organized in themed packs, e.g. Activism, Business, Education, STEM, and more. Browse image packs available for free. Site's licensing allows you to reuse, revise, and/or remix images.
Nappy
Photo library of Black and Brown people. Explore collections and categories. Licensed CC0 (Public Domain).
#WOCinTech Chat photos
Extensive stock photo collection of WOC (women of color) in tech. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
Disability Inclusive Stock Photography
Stock photographs featuring people with disabilities in tech or business settings. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC BY ND) License.
Disabled And Here Collection
Photo collection featuring disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) across the PNW. LGBTQ+, Lifestyle, Social, and Work categories. Licensed CC-BY (Creative Commons - Attribution).
AllGo Plus-Size Stock Photos
Stock photos featuring plus-size people. No modification or commercial use allowed. See front page for sample attribution statement.
Images of Empowerment
Photo library of women's activities, particularly work and health-related, from around the world. Explore by location or subject. Licensed CC-BY-NC (Creative Commons - Attribution - NonCommercial).
Open Peeps
Library of hand-drawn, mix-and-match illustrations of people of different genders, ethnicities, and abilities. Licensed CC0 (Public Domain).
Redefining Women Icon Collection
Collection of icon illustrations of women in different active scenarios and careers. CC0 (Creative Commons Zero - Public domain) license.
Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon
"Images of various objects in a culturally authentic setting for language learning." Scroll down to browse images by language. All images have a CC BY NC SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license.

Public domain image sites:

Pixabay
All images and videos on Pixabay are released under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) public domain license. Searchable by keyword or by type (video, illustration, photo, etc.).
PxHere
All images on this repository site are licensed under the CC0 public domain license.
Pexels
Free stock photos and videos in a variety of categories and formats. Modification allowed, and attribution not required (but appreciated).
Stock Snap
Photos and images on this site have a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) public domain license. Searchable by keyword or by categories.
Unsplash
Unsplash photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) public domain license. Searchable by keyword or by collections.

Image sites with a mix of openly licensed and public domain images:

Flickr
Flickr hosts millions of Creative Commons-licensed images. Notably, Flickr provides a separate Creative Commons licensed videos collection. Search tip: After searching with a keyword, click the "Any license" filter to narrow down to images with different kinds of open licenses.
Wikimedia
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository that is completely dedicated to providing educational media that are released either in the public domain or under Creative Commons license. Search tip: To check the license information on any image, scroll down the page to the Licensing section.
Creative Commons Search
Search for free images in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
Morguefile
Morguefile is a free photo archive. The site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work. Search Tip: Search by keyword and then click on the license link for more specific info on how to use that image.

Each site linked below may contain content which may vary in open licenses or usage permissions.

TED Talks
TED Videos have a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license, and TED encourages users to freely view, share, and download the videos without restraint. The website is provided as a public service to promote the spread of good ideas.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed Originals are short, award-winning animated videos about ideas that spark the curiosity of learners everywhere.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy provides top-quality educational videos that are organized by discipline and skill levels. They provide videos from various disciplines including Math, Science, Economics, Finance, and Humanities.
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Technically, Khan Academy is no longer an OER repository. The videos are no longer openly licensed, but all Khan Academy videos are still free for anyone to watch, but adaptation is not allowed.
YouTube
YouTube provides millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos (among their billions of video collections). The key is filtering them to isolate the Creative Commons-licensed ones.
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Search tip: Once you search using keywords, use the filter to narrow down to the CC licensed videos.
Vimeo
Like YouTube, Vimeo hosts millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos. In addition, Vimeo provides a separate Creative Commons licensed video collection which makes the filtering process much easier.
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See the Open WA page on Vimeo, http://www.openwa.org/vimeo/, for detailed directions and screenshots for different ways to filter down to CC-licensed videos in Vimeo.
Creative Commons Search
Search for free images in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
If/Then Collection
"A digital asset library of women STEM innovators, for educational and other noncommercial use." Scroll down page for categories of images and videos, including Women in Tech, #SheCanSTEM, Health & Medicine, and more.
Open Video Project
A shared digital video collection, managed by School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Includes video collections from NASA, National Arcives, Internet Moving Images Archive, and more. Search by keyword or browse videos by genre, duration, color, and sound. Most videos are from government agencies and under public domain.
Library of Congress National Screening Room
This online collection spans more than 100 years of cinema history, from 1890-1999. Most, but not all, of the featured films are in the public domain, and available to download as well as watch.
1000+ Free Movies Online - Open Culture
Links to over 1000 free movies online, many of which are in the public domain. Includes classic, indies, noir, westerns, etc. Organized by genre and title.
List of open-source films on Wikipedia
Open-source films (also known as open-content films and free-content films) are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open-source and open content methodologies. Their sources are freely available.

Each site linked below may contain content which may vary in open licenses or usage permissions.

Free Music Archive
"Free Music Archive and Tribe of Noise are known for free to download music licensed under Creative Commons."
Public Domain and Royalty Free Music - PD Info
Massive lists of public domain music and songs, as well as royalty free music. From the Public Domain Information Project site.
Creative Commons Search
Search for free images in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
Library of Congress Audio Recordings Search
Listen to music, interviews, field recordings, and more from the Library's historic sound recording collections.
900+ Free audio books - Open Culture
Download hundreds of free and openly licensed audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Includes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
CCMixter
This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.
SoundBible.com
Offers free sound clips for download in either wav or mp3 format. Each sound clip has license information, so look for that column when determining license and usage.
Wikimedia Commons: Free media resources/Sound
List of free/open source sound websites
Citizen DJ
"The concept of Citizen DJ is grounded in hip hop culture." Includes free-to-use audio and video collections from the Library of Congress. Scroll down the home page to view music collections. All sounds are free-to-use for remixing.