Open Educational Resources (OERs) are materials created under Creative Commons, a public copyright license that gives others permission to share or add to an otherwise copyrighted work for educational use.

Images for OER

General Image Collections

ASCCC OERI Image Collection Links

Applied Math and Science Education Repository - AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use in community and technical colleges but free for anyone to use.

Biomedical Image Collections (Google Doc of a variety of collections on this topic and other general collections)

Burst - Free stock photos and royalty-free images

ClipSafari - Public domain images you can freely use for personal and commercial use without attribution to the original author.

Creative Commons

DigCCMixter - music for videos, games, app, podcasts or just for listening

Google Advanced Search - Search by Usage Rights

Lardbucket Collection - Various formerly textbook publisher titles 

Library of Congress "Free to Use and Reuse" Collection 

LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks

Open Library 

PexelsA large selection of high-quality free stock photos and royalty-free images.

PhET Interactive Simulations - Univ. of Colorado Boulder (Math/Sci)

Pixaby - royalty free, high quality stock images and videos

Public Domain Clip Art

Public Domain Review - guide to finding interesting public domain works online

Springer Open Journals 

TED Talks

Unsplash - Free, high-resolution photos

Wikimedia Commons - freely usable media files

Diverse and Inclusive Image Collections

AllGo Plus-Size: Free stock photography collections featuring plus-size people; License: While attribution is not required, please credit.

Anatomy Video and Image Diversity (AVID) Project (University of Calgary) - AVID is is a database of freely available original images and videos that properly showcase the range of human diversity and that are of sufficient detail and quality to support excellent anatomical teaching across multiple disciplines and levels of learner expertise.

Center for Aging Better Positive and realistic images of older people.

CreateHER - Authentic stock photography collection featuring women of color. (Freemium)

Disability:IN - Disability-inclusive stock photography

Disabled and Here - A disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC).

Dollar Street Photographs of families, their homes, and how they live around the world.

The Gender Spectrum Collection (free)- Stock Photos Beyond the Binary - A stock photo library featuring images of trans and nonbinary models that go beyond cliches.

Human Development Institute Image Collection - Univ. of Kentucky's image collection featuring accurate and diverse collection of stock photos that highlight disability representation.

Images of Empowerment - Free images of women’s lives and work, created by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Getty Images.

LGBTQ Stock Photo Collections 

nappy - Stock image collection filled with "beautiful, high-res photos of Black and Brown people"

Open Peeps - Hand drawn illustration library 

PICNOI - A coop of stock image photography including diverse, multi-racial images.

TONL - Find culturally diverse stock photos that represent the true world we live in. (Freemium)

#WOCinTech Chat: Free photos of women and non-binary people of color working in the Tech field; licensed CC BY #WOCinTech Chat or wocintechchat.com

Queer in Tech CollectionFlickr Photoset of queer and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people in technology.

Icons

The Noun Project - a platform empowering the community to build a global visual language of icons and symbols that everyone can understand. 

Redefining Women Icon Collection (part of thenouproject.com)

FlatIcon - Icons, vectors and stickers

Fine Art

Art Institute of Chicago - Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s collection—from renowned icons to lesser-known works from every corner of the globe—as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.

Cleveland Museum of Art - Collection of open images. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) - 5,000 years of history through 490,000+ works of art. Search the open access collection

Smithsonian Open Access Collection - download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking.

 

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