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A list of dozens of disciplinary and subject-specific open educational resources, from Anthropology to Women & Gender Studies.
The BCcampus Open Education Virtual Lab and Science Resource Directory lists free science resources designed to support remote science education. This directory is updated as new resources are identified. Note that, while all resources in this directory are free, not all are open. Resources that carry Creative Commons or otherwise open licences are clearly labelled.
COERLL: The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.
LACLI (Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian Online Free E-Resources): LACLI is a collective effort to create a warehouse of online free e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian full content. Reuse LACLI to create guides or any other material for non-commercial purposes. This is a Latin America Northeast Libraries Consortium (LANE) project. For more information on project members, visit the About Us page.
OER By Discipline Directory: The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Directory lists a wide range of open educational resources organized by discipline. This directory is updated as new resources are identified. Note that textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection are not included in this directory
Cleveland Museum of Art: search collection filtered for open access images.
Creative Commons Images: Creative Commons image search aggregator.
Europeana: Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions, funded by the European Union.
FreeImages: Another aptly named site that provides access to free images: Photos, Vectors, Clipart, Icons, PSD & more!
Getty Open Content Search: Search filtered for open content.
Gratisography: Royalty free stock photos and images
Human Development Institute: A Flickr collection of images of people with disabilities in all aspects of society. All images CC0.
Library of Congress Digital Collections: Check for open access or only link out.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Filtered by open access.
Morguefile: Royalty free stock photos and images.
New York Public Library Digital Collections: Public Domain Items
The Noun Project: Icons and photos. Our community of designers from 120+ countries is building the most diverse and extensive collection of iconography ever created.
Open Photo: User generated quality photos organized by themes and tags. Mostly Creative Commons licenses, but check license terms.
Paris Musées: Over 350,000 images in the public domain.
Picjumbo: Free stock photos.
Pixabay: Royalty free clip art.
Pixnio: Free images for anyone.
Public Domain Clip Art: Name says it all.
Rijksmuseum: Browse 772,396 works of art and 696,160 Rijksstudios (user collection "sets")
Smithsonian Open Access: Access to more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items their collections.
Unsplash: The internet’s source for visuals. Powered by creators everywhere.
Vecteezy: filtered by Creative Commons Vector Art. 357 royalty free vector graphics and clipart.
Vintage Stock Photos: Another aptly named resource.
Watercolour World: Free database of pre-1900 documentary watercolours from private as well as public collections around the world.
Wikimedia Commons: A media commons.
Please note that while some repositories listed below contain public domain or Creative Commons-licensed videos, many include videos that are freely-accessible, but not issued with an open license for reuse or adaptation. In such cases the videos should be accessed by a link.
Digitized video from the collections of the Library of Congress
Open Images: An open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse.
Interviews, presentations, and roundtable discussions with experts and public figures from a wide range of fields.
“A public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.” Users post video clips, often with written commentary.
“Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains over a million digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.”
Webcasts on a variety of topics across disciplines, along with links to LOC Webcasts Youtube page and link to Film and Video collections.
A list of freely-accessible hubs of surgical/medical videos. (Penn Libraries)
“These animated videos show the anatomy of body parts and organ systems and how diseases and conditions affect them.”
AdViews: Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s–1980s.
Al Jazeera Video: Video archive of the news organization Al Jazeera.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting: A collaboration between the Library of Congress and GBH. Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America.
Black Film Archive: An ever-evolving archive dedicated to celebrating the rich history of Black cinema’s past.
C-Span Video Library: C-SPAN programs by frequently searched categories, a selection of most popular searches, some well-received "fast finds," and a look into the archive at the most popular programs (by online views) for each day of the year.
CriticalPast: Vintage stock footage and millions of stock photo images comprising one of the largest royalty-free archive footage collections in the world.
National Film Board of Canada: The National Film Board of Canada's award-winning online Screening Room, featuring over 5,000 productions. Films on this site can be streamed free of charge, or downloaded for your personal use for a small fee.
The Open Video Project: A shared digital video collection.
UbuWeb: UbuWeb presents thousands of avant-garde films & videos for your viewing pleasure. Films are presented for educational and non-commercial use only. All copyrights belong to the artists.
Videvo: Free stock video footage.
Acoustic Atlas: The Acoustic Atlas collects the sounds of Montana and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, along with habitats and species from throughout the Western United States. The 3,091 audio files include sounds of amphibians, birds, fish, invertebrates, mammals, reptiles, and ambient recordings.
ccMixter: A community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.
Free Music Archive: An aptly named free music archive.
Freesound: Looking for the sound of a chair scrapping or breathing? Freesound is for you.
Global Music Archives: The GMA’s primary mission is to provide access to sound recordings and images of indigenous music from communities in Africa and the Americas.
Historical Voices: The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind.
IMSLP Petrucci Music Library: Sharing the world's public domain music.
Jamendo: Royalty free music
Moby Gratis: Free Moby music
Musopen: Free public domain classical music: recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.
National Jukebox: Library of Congress collection of historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.
Recorded Sound Archives: Florida Atlantic University project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music
Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings: Over 125,000 songs celebrating North America’s Spanish-language musical heritage
Everything published by the Federal government is free of any copyright restrictions. The research, reports and websites can be useful resources for classes when creating your own course material. Government documents more generally (with some minor exceptions) are also in the public domain:
The Homeland Security Digital Library is a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Topics include maritime, unmanned aerial systems, terrorism, epidemics and many more.
SciTech Connect is a collection of science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.
