Where Can I Find Digital Images in the Public Domain?
Pics4Learning www.pics4learning.com Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.
Flikr (image sharing site) www.flickr.com
Ourmedia (media repository site) www.ourmedia.org
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PylPira.html
Ditto http://ditto.com A digital image search engine.
FreePhoto.com www.freefoto.com At this site, 64,582 images are organized into 116 sections and 2,307 categories. The site’s educational use policy can be found at www.freefoto.com/browse.jsp?id=99-16-0
FreeStockPhotos.com http://freestockphotos.com/ This site offers images of animals, weather, scenery, plants, and wildflowers.
The Manzanita Project, Special Collections, California Academy of Sciences Library www.calacademy.org/research/library/manzanita/html/images.html The image categories here include plants, fungi, animals, landscape and habitat, and people and culture. The site’s educational use policy is at www.calacademy.org/research/library/manzanita/html/useinfo.htm#educational
The Morgue File www.morguefile.com A morgue file is an archive of newspaper articles and photographs. This site offers archives of images contributed by users that are freely available for use without charge.
Open Photo http://openphoto.net This site hosts a database of images covered by the Creative Commons license, which in general specifies that the works may be copied and distributed non-commercially, provided credit is given to the original author. Specific licensing terms may vary for individual photos, and these terms are clearly identified on the Web site.
Ray I. Doan Photographic Collection www.raydoan.com More than 700 professionally photographed landscape and wildlife images are offered here. Printed or high resolution images are available for a significant fee, but the photographer allows free downloads of the Web images for educational use. Find the site’s educational use policy is at www.raydoan.com/Educational_Use.htm
The Stock Exchange http://sxc.hu/ The stock exchange is a collection of photographs contributed by amateur photographers who offer their work for use by the public without charge. The archive has more than 100,000 images arranged by categories such as nature, art and architecture, travel, and transportation.
