Research Guides: WR 123: Written Reasoning in the Context of Research: Find Images

Finding Open Access or Creative Commons Images

Open Access image icon from noun project Locating and using openly licensed, creative commons, or public domain content is a great alternative to requesting permissions or doing a fair use analysis on copyrighted images or other educational content. The following sites are a good starting point for your search:

CC Search
Unsplash
Google Image Search
Look for Tools >> Usage Rights >> Creative Commons licenses
Flickr
Be sure to use the License filter to locate Creative Commons or other reusable material.
Pexels
Burst
Gratisography
Pixabay
A site that provides free, public domain images that don't even require attribution. Unfortunately, it also offers Shutterstock images, which aren't free, but they are clearly set off so I don't think users will find that too confusing. The search feature is particularly nice, supporting Boolean connectors and also the ability to search by predominant color of the image.
CreateHER Stock
Stock photography featuring melanated women.
Nappy
Featuring photos of Black and Brown people.
WOCinTech (Flickr)
The Gender Spectrum Collection (Broadly)
Featuring images of trans and non-binary models.
Disability Images

General Image Resources

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
A collection of two million plus digital images in the fields of the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Designed for high quality use in presentations and instruction. Software allows for zoom and download. Some quicktime panoramas.

Flickr Commons
Many cultural heritage institutions are contributing digital images to Flickr. The Smithsonian, Brooklyn Museum, the Getty, and Library of Congress are just a few of them.
Google Images
Library of Congress Picture Collections
Presents thousands of digitized images of varying sizes from the Prints & Photographs Diviison of the Library of Congress. Diverse content includes baseball cards, Japanese-American internment (Ansel Adams), African-Americans, architecture, posters, and much more.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Includes 700,000+ digital images from the diverse collections of the New York Public Library archives.
Oregon Digital
Oregon Digital is an extensive repository for digital items created by the libraries at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. Included are almost 100 individual collections covering a variety of subjects scanned from diverse original formats.

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