Q. Where can I find openly licensed images?

Finding general Creative Commons (CC) licensed images

• Openverse: Find >700 million images and audio files across dozens of open repositories; provides proper rich-text attributions

• Google Image Search: from results, click on “Tools” then “Usage Rights” & select “Creative Commons licenses”

• Wikimedia Commons: Find >75 million images plus sound & video clips

• Flickr Search: Choose desired CC license under “Any License”

• MORE! Guide from Harvard Law Library

Finding openly licensed images: All the following services (and several that are similar) offer millions of free images under terms very much like CC0 (public domain); they just forbid starting a similar service that competes with theirs.

• Pixabay

• Pexels

• Unsplash

Finding subject-specific CC-licensed or public domain images

• Art & Architecture: The Met Collection, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Smithsonian Institution, Paris Musées, and more

• History: Library of Congress, Wellcome Collection, NYPL Digital Collections

• Science: NASA Image Portal, USGS Photos, NOAA Photo Library

• Medicine: NIH Images from the History of Medicine, CDC Public Health Image Library

Finding other types of open content 

• Text-based content: Use Google Advanced Search -- look for “usage rights” at bottom of form & select best option for you; see also Project Gutenberg; Catalog of U.S. Government Publications 

• Music: SoundCloud, AudionautiX, Jamendo, ccMixter, & more

• Stock video: Videvo, Beachfront B-Roll

• MORE!