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General Resources

Creative Commons
Creative Commons licenses help creators retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work, at least non-commercially.
All of the Creative Commons licenses require that users provide attribution to the creator when the material is used and shared. Some licensors choose the attribution requirement as the only condition for reuse of the material; this is designated as the BY license. The other five licenses combine the BY license with one or more of three additional license elements: NonCommercial (NC), which prohibits commercial use of the material; NoDerivatives (ND), which prohibits the sharing of adaptations of the material; and ShareAlike (SA), which requires adaptations of the material be released under the same license. (Adapted from http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ FAQ#What_are_Creative_Commons_licenses.3F.)
Flickr
Find photographs, including images by amateurs and professionals. Additionally, many archives use this website to host public domain images, such as the IMLS Digital Collections and Content group (https://www.flickr.com/people/imlsdcc/) and the British Library (https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary).
Luna Commons
Find historic images and photographs, but note that licensing may vary; some images may be free of copyright and others are not, so be sure to read the rights restrictions for the image you select.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore 745,656 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. Clicking on the "Public Domain" filter on the left side of the page will ensure freely usable items are returned in your search. Website includes prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
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.

Photographs and Stock Images

Bucketlistly Photos
A moderate-sized collection of travel photographs, organized geographically.
Burst from Shopify
"Burst is a free stock photo site that is powered by Shopify. We have 1000’s of high quality and royalty-free images available and free to download. This includes a wide variety of images ready for you to choose from and create with."
EveryStockPhoto.com
"A search engine for free photos. We search almost 30 million free photos under 10 free licenses." Users must verify that the licenses on this site are accurate and current for the image they want to use.
FindA.Photo
"Search through thousands of free (CC0 licensed) stock photos" by keyword or color.
The Image Project
"Faculty, staff and students of the California State University System have created this searchable database which contains more than 50,000 images from throughout the world. Images are free when used for non-profit educational purposes, with appropriate credit given to the copyright holders who retain all rights to the images."
Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The Met collection has grown artistically, geographically, and culturally to represent more than 5,000 years of art from across the globe—from the first cities of the ancient world to works being created today." Be sure to select the 'Public Domain Artworks' box on the left hand side of the results screen.
Morguefile.com
"Contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site."
Nappy
"Beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people."
PD Pics (Public Domain Pictures)
"We have a large collection of royalty free images that can be used in any project (personal or commercial)."
Pixabay
"Find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are published under Creative Commons public domain deed CC0."
Wellcome Collection
"Find thousands of Creative Commons licensed images from historical library materials and museum objects to contemporary digital photographs."

Art in Public Domain

Art Images for College Teaching
"AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community."
Getty Open Content Program
"The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required." More information at http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html.
National Gallery of Art
Download public domain images; more information at https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html.
Old Book Illustrations
"We are not the only image collection on the web, neither will we ever be the largest one. We hope however to be a destination of choice for visitors more particularly interested in Victorian and French Romantic illustrations."
Wikipedia's Public Domain Art
"Images in this category are illustrations from artists who have been deceased for more than 100 years."

See also

Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access)
About 30,000 images of artwork from the Cleveland Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of art available for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Also provides access to portions of collections information (metadata) for more than 61,000 artworks, both in the public domain and those works with copyright or other restrictions.
CrashCourse
Provides overview videos in a variety of subject areas, such as: history of science, statistics, engineering, theater and drama, media literacy, sociology, computer science, world history, biology, ecology, literature, U.S. history, chemistry, psychology, anatomy & physiology, astronomy, U.S. government & politics, economics, philosophy, physics, world mythology, and film: history, production, and criticism.
Google Images Advanced Image Search
The Advanced Image Search allows you to limit your search for Google Images by Usage Rights (e.g., free to use or share; free to use or share, even commercially; free to use, share, or modify; free to use, share or modify, even commercially)
HippoCampus
Provides access to over 7,000 videos in 13 subjects areas in math, natural science, social science, and humanities.
Because they include educational levels from middle school to college, you will need to verify that the level is appropriate for your students.
Khan Academy
Offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. They cover math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. You must set up a free account to access.
Khan Academy YouTube Videos
Open Access at the MET
More than 375,000 images of art works available under Creative Commons Zero through an Open Access policy.
PBS Video
Provides streaming access to many PBS videos. However, some are only available with a TPT membership.
TED Talks
A clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers. TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED Videos are not officially licensed with any kind of open licensing. However, TED allows the users to freely view and download the videos without restraint.
Unsplash
Beautiful, free photos gifted by the world's most generous community of photographers
Vimeo
Similar to YouTube, Vimeo hosts millions of Creative Commons-licensed videos. In addition, Vimeo provides a separate Creative Commons licensed video collection which makes the filtering process much easier.
Wikimedia Commons
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. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers.
YouTube
Although not traditional OER, and they need to be vetted, YouTube videos can serve as useful course content