Digital Learning Objects (OERs) & Media Tools to Supplement Instruction

An internet based archive for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web content.

The Art Institute of Chicago has contributed approximately 1,450 images from their global permanent collection to the Artstor Digital Library. The selection in Artstor represents the diversity and excellence of the collection, featuring iconic highlights with an emphasis on antiquities from various cultures, European paintings, and works on paper

High resolution, public domain, classical art works.

The Cleveland Museum of Art released more than 34,000 digital images of public domain works in high resolution.

An online sharing service where users share free public domain vector cliparts, or vector cliparts from public domain photos.

Search for images that are in the public domain OR have been granted creative commons status.

A search engine of free vector designs. The majority of the resources offered at Freepik can be used for free with attribution.

A search engine for locating images released with a Creative Commons license.

Images on Pexels are released under Creative Commons CC0 and can be used for personal or commercial purposes freely.

Images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0 and can be downloaded, modified, distributed, and used them royalty-free.

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 19 museums and the National Zoo—shaping the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

An online database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

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.

Collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.

Royalty-free music site. Each piece on this site is available under different licenses and uses creative commons by attribution 3.0

Recordings, sheet music, and textbooks available to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.

Historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.

Digital archive of Internet sites, audio recordings, moving images, and text.

A repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Created and sponsored by UNC's School of Library & Info Science. Archival videos include storyboards but no closed captions.

Videvo offers stock video footage and motion graphics for use in any project, commercial or non-commercial, through use of its own license or CC 3.0 license.

A browse-able collection of Creative Commons licensed videos.

By appending “, creativecommons” (including the comma) to the end of your search term, you can filter for YouTube videos released with a creative commons license.