LibGuides: * Digital Media Studies: Finding Media

Images

Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr
Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge.
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries and cultural organizations as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. We do this by collaborating with partners to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to make information more accessible.
Europeana Collections
A portal to +20 million digital items from +1,500 European archives, libraries, museums from 32 countries. In mutliple languages, the portal includes links to texts (books, newspapers, etc.), images (works of arts, maps, etc.), video (film, TV broadcasts, etc.), and sound (music, radio broadcasts).
Flickr: Creative Commons
FreeImages
Getty Open Content Project
Humaans
Free mix-and-match illustrative clipart of people.
Icons - The Noun Project, Women of Color
Icons for infographics, powerpoint presentations, etc. Available under a creative commons license and accessible with a free account.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain Artworks Access by selecting the "Public Domain Artworks" filter in the left-hand column.
Morgue File
Search morgueFile for free high resolution digital stock photographs and reference images for either corporate or public use. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for illustrators, comic book artist, designers, teachers and all creative pursuits.
Museo
Museo is a visual search engine that connects you with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, the , the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the New York Public Library Digital Collection and more. Every image is in the public domain and completely free to use, although crediting the source institution is recommended.
NASA Image and Video Library
NASA content generally are not copyrighted. You may use this material for educational or informational purposes.
NOAA Photo library
Photographic collection that spans the World's oceans and atmosphere, and captures the work, observations, and studies done by National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration employees.
Pixabay
A repository for royalty-free and public domain images.
The Rijksmuseum Public Domain Dedication for sharing its high quality true-color digital images and metadata about the works in its collection. They actively seek to have people reuse images of artwork in their collection through their annual Rijksstudio competition, where members of the public are invited to collect, download images and create their own artwork. http://bit.ly/1aHqdfz
Unsplash
High quality free images and photos you can download and use for any project. No attribution required.
Wikimedia Commons: Images
WOCinTech Stock Photos (Flickr)
Stock photos published under a Creative Commons Attribution license copy, distribute and display any of these images with attribution.

See this guide for more on Finding, Using and Citing images.

Reverse Image Searching

Google Reverse Image Search
Use Google to search the web for an image instead of keywords
TinEye
Use image recognition to find out where an image came from, how it is being used or if modified versions of the image exist.

Copyrighted images for academic projects at University of Rochester

Most of the images in the collections below are copyrighted, but they can be used for educational purposes within the University of Rochester. They cannot be used for public consumption (websites, blogs, social media). Check the copyright information of each image before using.

AP Images This link opens in a new window
Photo archive containing the Associated Press' photos, most since 1995, and a selection of pictures from their image library.

Wildscreen Arkive
Freely accessible multimedia resources for conservation, education and public awareness about life on Earth.
Artstor
The Artstor Digital Library is the most extensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use. Our collections feature visual media from leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists, offering many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
Go to Advanced Search and select Public Collections for free images.

Audio

Audionautix Online music collection created by Jason Shaw. Released under Creative Commons License 3.0.
Beatpick
ccMixter
Community Audio
Free Music Archive
Freeplay Music
Freesound
Incompetech
jamendo
mobygratis
MUSOPEN
NCS.io
Pretzel
Public Domain 4U
Soundcloud
A recording and podcast publishing tool.
Soundzabound
Wikimedia Commons: Sound

* Digital Media Studies: Finding Media

Finding Media in DiscoverUR

Images

Copyrighted images for academic projects at University of Rochester

Audio

Video