Streaming Video
Academic Video Online delivers thousands of titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
View pre-selected films and academic documentaries. Categories include art, education, film studies, global studies, media and communication, psychology, and other social sciences and humanities disciplines.
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A nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
A database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
A meta search engine for free photos.
"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."
Anyone can use the photos: Getty Images has an open-embed program that will let users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page.
"All photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals."
Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
Gateway to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pictures. Collection includes natural disasters, bioterrorism, environmental and behavioral health, etc. "Most of the images in the collection are in the public domain and are thus free of any copyright restrictions. If you look directly beneath the image you will see a fair use statement that tells you if the image is public domain or copyright protected. Permission is not required for public domain images, but we do ask that you credit the original institution and contributor, when known, whenever the image is used in any publicly distributed media. If the image is copyright protected, you will have to contact the content provider to obtain usage permission."
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
"Some of these photos and images are in the public domain and may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some photos and images may be protected by license."
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