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Openly Licensed Image Sources
- Creative Commons Image Search
- Wikimedia Commons: Images, Diagrams, Illustrations, Photos, videos, sounds, and more. All are openly licensed but have different individual licenses.
- Flickr: A variety of images. Licenses vary and may be copyrighted.
- The ASCCC OERI Flickr page houses images created through OERI proposals
Public Domain Image Sources
- US Government: Most are Public Domain. Check individual images to be sure.
- Negative Space: CCO licensed images
Diversity and Inclusion
- Nappy: Free high-resolution photos of black and brown people, licensed Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
- PICNOI: Free photos of people of color; no attribution required, but can give credit by linking to site
- #WOCinTech Chat: Free photos of women and non-binary people of color working in the Tech field; licensed CC BY
- CreateHer Stock: Free and for fee stock photos of women of color; license varies
- Redefining Women Icon Collection: Icons of women; License: Creative Commons Public Domain CC0 1.0
- The Gender Spectrum Collection: Free stock photos of trans and non-binary people, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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AllGo Plus Size: Free Plus-Size Stock Photos. Office, swim, and home collections. Attribution not required, please give credit.
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Disabled And Here: This collection is a disability-led effort to provide free and inclusive stock photos shot from our own perspective, featuring disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) across the Pacific Northwest. CC-BY 4.0
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Images of Empowerment: A free library of images celebrating women’s lives and their work in 11 countries around the world. CC-BY-NC 4.0
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The Noun Project - Photos: "Professionally curated, art-quality photos that celebrate diversity." CC BY NC ND
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American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action: "A free library of images celebrating student learning and teacher collaboration in seven schools across the United States." (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Open Peeps: "A hand-drawn illustration library." Mix and match elements to create different "peeps." Please note that you might need a design program to create your own "peeps." There are pre-made "peeps" you can download without a program. CC0
- Age-positive: "positive and realistic images of over 50s in a bid to challenge negative and stereotypical views of older age."
Freely-usable but not CC licensed
Check the individual sites for specific information on the licenses.
- Pixabay: Free stock photos, vectors and art illustrations
- Unsplash: Freely-usable images
- Shotstash: Free stock photos
- StockSnap: Free stock photos
- Gratisography: Images without copyright restrictions
Art Image
- The Greats: Free illustrations from great artists to change the world
Science Images
- Histology Atlas
- Scienceimage - Scienceimage is an image library specializing in science and nature images. It is presented by CSIRO, Australia's major science research organisation. All images are free to download under a Creative Commons license.
- Servier Medical Art - 3000 free medical images to illustrate your publications and Powerpoint presentations. Servier Medical Art by Servier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
- Clinical Anatomy - Anatomy Videos
- Nanotomy - Large-scale electron microscopy (EM) datasets
- Center for Research in Biological Systems - Cell image library built by an NIH grant.
- Biomedical Imaging
- Virtual Microscopy Database (VMD) a free database for histological and pathological virtual image files.
- Open resources (images, videos, and atlas) on neuroanatomy and clinical anatomy
- CDC Public Health Image Library ("PHIL") - The imagery showcased in the PHIL is historic in nature; the contents depicted, though appropriate at the time a photograph was captured, may no longer be appropriate in the context of the current time period, and is not to be viewed as a source of the most current public health information.
- Biomedical search engine cc-by-nc-sa
- National Institute of General Med. cc-by-nc-sa
- Genetics NIH public domain. cc-by-nc-sa
- More from NIH. cc-by-nc-sa
- MedPix.
- Biomedical Image Search. color coded usage rights
- Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals
- Cell Image Library.
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