Library Research Guides: ES/HIST 299: Environmental History: Find Media Sources

Images

This overview explains why and how you can find images to use in course & personal projects.

Finding Images (Wellesley College Art Library Research guide)
consult sources in the "public collections" section for images you can use
Wikipedia's Public Domain Images
List of sites with images in the public domain
Wikimedia Commons
All of the images you'll find here have clear information about permission for use. Many are in the public domain.
Flickr.com
Browse Creative Commons images / Search for Creative Commons images / Search by color with MulticolorEngine
morgueFile
Contains free high resolution digital stock photography for use in all creative pursuits.
Compfight
Search Flickr and other photo sites for freely-available images. Narrow your search by Creative Commons license to find images for public use.
Smithsonian Open Access
Open access and copyright-free images from the Smithsonian collections on every imaginable topic.

Want to use these images in a presentation, on a blog, or sharing on Tumblr, Twitter, or other social media?

Citing and Crediting Image Creators
A step-by-step guide to help you do this
Adding Photo Creds to Talk Slides
Nice tutorial on how to include images credits on powerpoint slides.

Here are some sites where you can download sound & music files.

Sounds

Phonography
A directory of resources for soundscape recordings and for public domain sound files ( look under "sounds")

Music

ccMixter
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Free Music Archive
an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. Conditions of use vary and are determined by the rightsholders themselves (see their FAQ for details).
Legal Music for Videos
The Creative Commons site maintains a list of links to sites offering music licensed under CC.
Jamendo
All the music on jamendo is available under one of the six Creative Commons licenses. They authorize free download and enable the artists to promote their music while protecting their rights.

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
YouTube
after your initial search, click on the link to filter your results, then click "creative commons" under Features.

Europeana
offers over 20 million digital images from Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections -- all of which are in the public domain.