LibGuides: Open Educational & Open Access Resources: Audio, Video, and Images (various licenses)

Audio

Academic Minute | Audio | Inside Higher Ed
Short reports from leading researchers on the latest research (daily podcast)
Audio Library from the US Fish and Wildlife Serivce
The Digital Library also includes images, video, and documents. Most materials are public domain--all are open access.
CBC Massey Lectures
Annual lecture since 1961, "the CBC will invite a noted scholar to undertake study or original research in his field and present the results in a series of half-hour radio broadcasts."
ccMixter
Creative Commons licensed music, audio, and video available for use and reuse
Historical Voices
Audio collections and an audio archiving standardization project.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music
Not technically an audio collection, this collection of public domain sheet music and music scores does host some recordings of the public domain music as well.
Internet Archive:Audio Archive
Live Music Archive, Netlabels, Presidential Recordings, and more.
Lit2Go
Audiobook versions of literature specifically arranged and categorized for teachers of literature. Some reading strategy/lesson plan materials available as well.
Oregon Public Speakers: A Legacy of Debate, Discourse, & Dialogue at Portland State
Portland State's recently rediscovered lost-in-storage recordings of speakers on campus. 1952-1979. Allen Ginsberg, JFK, Margaret Mead, Loren Eisley, Alex Haley, Eugene McCarthy. Science, history, education, writing, politics.
PennSound: Authors
Audio files of poetry readings, downloadable and reusable.
Science Friday
The podcasts of this weekly show are available on the website and in iTunes. Also available are videos, blog posts, and teacher resources.
Socrates Plato Aristotle | History of Philosophy without any gaps (podcast series)
A history of Western philosophy through a series of podcast lectures by Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King's College, London.

Video

Beilstein TV
Video interviews and lab demonstrations from one of the primary publishers in chemistry. Labs are connected to articles in the publisher's open access journals.
Internet Archive: Moving Images Archive
advertising, animation, conference presentations, lectures, digital shows, etc.
Learner.org - Annenberg Media
Instructional video series on a variety of subjects; many originally broadcast on public television. Videos with VoD (Video on Demand) icon can be viewed free on the web.
Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music
Open access music and sheet music. They are also planning a music theory textbook.
National Archives YouTube Channel
Videos about the Archives, of events, and archival footage from the collections.
PBS Video
Full length video from the full range of Public Broadcasting shows. Some shows have limited online availability; be sure to check the expiration date under Details.
PopTech : popcasts
Talks about technology from some of the best people (not necessarily tech people) on the planet. Social impacts, implications, art, music, science, medicine...
TED: Ideas worth spreading
Over 800 (as of 11/2010) videos from TED conferences, events, and partner events. CC licensing, and subtitles (in English, with additional languages added through the TED Open Translation Project).
Videvo
"Videvo offers free stock videos and motion graphics for use in any project. You may use these video clips free of charge, in both personal and commercial productions. Video clips that carry the Creative Commons 3.0 license must be attributed to the original author."

Finding CC Licensed YouTube Videos

YouTube is an excellent tool to find CC licensed videos. Follow these steps:

Do a search in YouTube
Click on the Filter option
Under Features, select Creative Commons.
To confirm if the selected YouTube video is CC licensed, click Show more option.
If it is CC licensed, it will say Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). If it is not CC licensed, it will say Standard YouTube license.

Images

*Ad*Access
A collection of over 7,000 advertisements from U.S. and Canadian magazines from 1911-1955.
BioDiversity Library's Flickr Photostream
Beautiful illustrations from natural history books, field guides, travelogues, etc: plants, animals, landscapes, and more. Most images are licensed CC-BY for easy reuse.
End of Term Web Archive: U.S. Government Websites
An archive of federal websites and the changes that happen when the administration changes. Searchable and browsable.
Image Library from the US Fish and Wildlife Serivce
The Digital Library also includes audio, video, and documents. Most materials are public domain--all are open access.
Library of Congress
American Memory, Prints & Photographs, Maps, Film, National Jukebox, and many more digital collections. Plus loads of subject guides and blogs, like Picture This, highlighting great resources. Can be searched by format.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Collection
While all the images on the Met's website are copyrighted and licensed for educational and personal use only, they mark images where the source artwork is in the public domain with an 'OASC' tag. These OASC images include licensing for scholarly publication. (See Terms and Conditions and FAQ.) You cannot search by the OASC tag.
New York Public Library's Digital Gallery
700,000 images (and growing) from NYPL's historical collections. Free for "individual private study, scholarship and research only."
NYPL Map Warper
The New York Public Library has put a huge collection of high resolution images of historical maps online for free download. The Map Warper digitally aligns those images to modern maps. You can also browse and search the map collection.
Open Access Images
A curated collection of open access image collections
Open Culture Art
The Open Culture website provides links to art currently available for download. High resolution available on most pieces.
Rijksstudio - Rijksmuseum
Over 125,000 high resolution images from this Amsterdam museum, free for use and reuse. Creating an account also lets you create collections, highlight details, and share sets.
U.S. Geological Survey
Maps. Also environmental and map related educational materials.
Wellcome Images
Tens of thousands of images from the London Wellcome Library, including the Wellcome Library biomedical collections, Tibetan Buddhist paintings, ancient Sanskrit manuscripts written on palm leaves, beautifully illuminated Persian books and much more.

Open Educational & Open Access Resources: Audio, Video, and Images (various licenses)

An Eclectic Collection of Audio, Video and Image Sites

Audio

Video

Finding CC Licensed YouTube Videos

Images