Finding Open Images
Google Image Search – will help you find results from Flickr, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and general web pages
- you can take advantage of the advanced image search, to refine your searching and to select a CC licensing you prefer in two ways..
- Use the licensing filter
- Once you type in your search term, you will get an initial set of results
- you will have a list of filters on the top of the page, click on Search Tools
- use the licensing pull-down filter named Usage Rights to select the Creative Commons license you wish to search for.
Use the Google Advanced Search
- at the bottom of the advanced search page, you can use the Usage Rights pull down to select the Creative Commons license you wish to search for.
Reminder – even though you filter, check on the actual image site to be sure of the CC licensing or user permissions.
- Creative Commons Searchingthis is a gateway to search other sites (Google images, YouTube, Flickr..etc) for content that is openly licensed
you can search thirteen different sites through this search engine including , but only one at a time, you can't search across sites. - Wikimedia CommonsWikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. Use the search to find content related to your interest.
- Europeanais a gateway to European cultural assets, through this one site you can search for artworks, cultural items, archival collections from participating institutions all around Europe. This site is a gateway, and once you have selected the items you want you will be redirected to the website of the institution that owns the item, and often these sites will not have English translations. To find an item with the Creative Commons licensing you prefer -
- Once you type in your initial search on the main page, you will have a list of filters on the left hand side of the page
- Use the "Can I use it?" and "By Copyright" filters to narrow down your results
- Flickris to image sharing as YouTube is to video sharing. There is content from individuals as well as organizations like the Metropolitan Museum, of Art and the Library of Congress among others
- take advantage of the advanced image search, to refine your searching and to select a CC licensing you want to search for
(last option on the advanced search page) - reminder – even though you filter, check on the actual image to be sure of the CC licensing or user permissions
- take advantage of the advanced image search, to refine your searching and to select a CC licensing you want to search for
Video Collections
- University VideosThis Digital Library portal contains the metadata of the YouTube Channels of the world's Top Universities.
- Moving Image ArchiveA large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.
- TED Ed: Lessons Worth SharingBuild a lesson around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk or YouTube video.
Music
- ccMixterAn entire site of music licensed under Creative Commons.
Library Resources
- Academic Video Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 62,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Alexander Street
- JSTOR Images This link opens in a new windowExplore millions of rights-cleared visual materials like artworks, maps, photographs, and more. JSTOR
- Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new window
Large collection of streaming video from many producers. Includes film & popular, business, education, health, sciences, and instructional films and lessons. Kanopy
Beginning April 15, 2024, Android 7.1.1 will be the earliest supported Android OS. - psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new window50 selected video titles in the fields of psychotherapy, counseling and addiction treatment. psychotherapy.net
Note: Remote access is restricted to UHV users.
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