Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Images & Videos

A tutorial from Open Washington that walks through the steps of finding YouTube videos with Creative Commons licenses.

A tutorial from Open Washington that walks through the steps of finding Flickr images with Creative Commons licenses.

Contributors to YouTube can license their videos for reuse or reuse with attribution. Users can use filters to find Creative Commons licensed videos.

Vimeo is a video-sharing website where users can upload, share, and view videos. Search filters allow users to find Creative Commons licensed videos.

TED Talks are available under the Creative Commons license "Attribution - NonCommercial - NonDerivative" (BY-NC-ND).

Khan Academy offers free practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard so that learners can study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Khan Academy's content is available for personal, non-commercial purposes.

Use the "Usage Rights" filter to find images with Creative Commons licenses.

Flicker is a photo management and sharing platform. Browse recently added photographs marked with Creative Commons licenses or used the advanced search to find photos released under a particular license.

The UWM Libraries Digital Collections draw from materials in Archives, Special Collections, the Curriculum Collection, Music Library, and the American Geographical Society Library. Images may be downloaded by individuals or libraries for personal use, research, teaching or any "fair use" as defined by copyright law.

NYPL holds more than 180,000 public domain items in its digital collections. Easily limit your search to "public domain" images or explore the public domain collections.

The Library of Congress provides access to noncommercial, high-quality content, from digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books, to "born digital" materials, like Web sites. Whenever possible, the Library of Congress provides factual information about copyright holders of the materials but it is up to the user to make decisions about fair use of the materials.