AWS Public DataPublic datasets on a range of topics from Amazon Web Services. Datasets are provided and maintained by a variety of third parties under a variety of licenses.
Data.govA portal for open data from the U.S. government.
openICPSRA service of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), openICPSR is a self-publishing repository for social, behavioral, and health sciences research data. openICPSR is particularly well-suited for the deposit of replication data sets for researchers who need to publish their raw data associated with a journal article so that other researchers can replicate their findings.
Bio-Image SearchLane Medical Library’s Bio-Image Search enables discovery of biomedical images with Public Domain & Creative Commons licenses, aggregates biomedical images from many image sources, and displays the results in four groups, from broadest reuse rights to most limited reuse rights.
Creative Commons SearchOver 500 million images, available for reuse under a variety of Creative Commons licenses.
Flickr: The CommonsThe Commons has two main objectives: to increase access to publicly-held photography collections, and to provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge.
Library of Congress Digital CollectionsThis page features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content is based on a theme.
These sets are just a small sample of the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The digital collections comprise millions of items including books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and photos, maps, musical scores, films, sound recordings and more. Whenever possible, each collection has its own rights statement which should be consulted for guidance on use.
NASA Image GalleriesNASA's image library, images.nasa.gov, consolidates imagery and videos in one searchable locations. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.
National Gallery of ArtThe National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in our permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial.
NOAA Photo LibraryThe NOAA Photo Library collections include thousands of weather and space images, hundreds of images of shores and coastal seas, and thousands of marine species images ranging from whales to the most minute plankton. Images in the NOAA Photo Library are in the public domain and cannot be copyrighted.
Open Content Program - The GettyAllows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
PixabayOver 2.3 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.
Smithsonian Open AccessAllows users to download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Wikimedia CommonsFrom the site:
"Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone... Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as they follow the terms specified by the author; this often means crediting the source and author(s) appropriately and releasing copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description page."
ccMixterA community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses.
JamendoA free streaming service for personal use, with some tracks available under Creative Commons licenses. Licensing fees may apply for commercial uses.
PixabayOver 2.3 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.
Wikimedia CommonsFrom the site:
"Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone... Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as they follow the terms specified by the author; this often means crediting the source and author(s) appropriately and releasing copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description page."
Assignments, assessments, lesson plans, labs, syllabi, and other materials that can be used in teaching.
Community of Online Research AssignmentsReliable and reproducible research assignments that are enhanced by user feedback in order to build a corpus of best practices. There is also a Teaching Toolkit featuring a wide range of resource types including pedagogy/theory, assessment, classroom activities, technology tips, subject guides, citation tools, and information literacy tutorials.
ConnexionsFree educational material from the OpenStax platform that can be organized as books or other academic assignments.
Open Syllabus ProjectA non-profit research organization that collects and analyzes millions of syllabi to support novel teaching and learning applications.
Open University - OpenLearnA free learning platform, delivered by The Open University as part of its Royal Charter commitment to support the wellbeing of the community, that includes almost 1,000 free courses, topical and interactive content, videos and online games.
Teaching CommonsHigh-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
teachOERThis online repository of OER resources and openly-licensed teaching materials was developed by faculty for faculty.
WikiEducatorWikiEducator is a community project working collaboratively towards incremental development of open educational resources. It is an evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of free content for e-learning, work on building OERs on how to create OERs, and networking on funding proposals developed as free content.
Moving Image ArchiveThis library contains 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.
The Open Video ProjectThe purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
PixabayOver 2.3 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.
Wikimedia CommonsFrom the site:
"Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone... Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as they follow the terms specified by the author; this often means crediting the source and author(s) appropriately and releasing copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description page."
Skills CommonsAn open online library created by the US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training program that contains free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.
