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Open Education Resources (OER): Images

Images

Pexels

  • Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license.

Everystockphoto

  • Search engine of free photos (requires free sign-up). Terms of use are included on license icons.

OpenPhoto

  • Images with Creative Commons Licenses in numerous categories.

Morguefile

  • An archive of free photos that can be used commercially and without attribution.

Pixabay

  • Free public domain images.

Openverse Search by Creative Commons

  • Search for items licensed by Creative Commons in Flickr, Google, YouTube, Wikimedia, and more.

Google Images: Advanced Search

  • Advanced image search allows users to search by "Usage Rights"

Flickr Advanced Search

  • Allows users to search by license type including Creative Commons, Public Domain, and other specific terms of use.

Open ClipArt Library

  • Images available for commercial and noncommercial use.

Smithsonian Open Access 

  • Download, share and reuse Smithsonian images. Much of the content is in the public domain.

Creative Commons Search 

  • All images have a Creative Commons license or are in the public domain. A bonus for using this site is the attribution for the images is created for you. 

Openclipart.org 

  • This site is run by librarians and all the clipart is in the public domain.

Women of Color in Tech 

  • Find free images of women of color in tech. All photos are available under an attribution Creative Common license.  

Nappy

  • Find free photos of beautiful Black and Brown people. Photos posted on Nappy are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license.

Genderphotos 

  • Stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models. Photos are licensed under a NonCommercial and NoDerivatives creative commons license.

Images of empowerment 

  • Free images of women in 11 countries around the world. Photos are licensed under a Noncommercial license.

Unsplash

  • Over 3 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

Attribution
Regardless of the specific licensing requirements, it is important to provide an Attribution when using Open Educational Resources. Use the attribution builders in the OER Faculty Resources tab to help you build an attribution statement.