LibGuides: Open Educational Resources &amp; Open Access: Open Images &amp; Videos

CC Search
Use this search to find images that you can use and remix across several open archives.
StockSnap
StockSnap is a popular website with 40,000+ free stock photos released under Creative Commons CC0, which allows for copy, modification, and distribution without the need for attribution.
Pixabay
All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.
Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license, which is basically Creative Commons Zero: you can copy, modify, distribute, and use images freely.
Unsplash
All images on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero, which means they can be copied, modified, distributed and used without limitations.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia 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.
PEIR Digital Library
Pathology Education Informational Resource (PEIR) is a multidisciplinary public access image database for use in medical education.
Knowledge Weavers Project
The mission of this project is to produce innovative multimedia resources and methods of delivery to support health sciences education.
Youtube
Search for video clips and then click on "Filters" on top of the result list. Select the "Creative Commons" option to refine results to open videos only.
The Noun Project
The Noun Project's community of designers from 120+ countries intends to build the most diverse and extensive collection of iconography ever created. Images are licenced with Creative Commons.

Using Images on Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

Microsoft Office applications such as Word and PowerPoint offer the option to insert online images, and it is possible to filter to images that are licenced under Creative Commons. Depending on the type of CC licence, you may be able to distribute the image in various way without infringing copyright.

Example in MS Word