Finding Creative Commons and Other Openly Licensed Images
You can use the Finding & Using Images Research Guide (on the next page) to look for Creative Commons (CC) and other openly licensed images. On that page you will see a box on the left titled Finding Open Access Images, Video, Music, and Other Content that has websites listed that have Creative Commons licensed images and other media. Also look at the Art Images and Other Media Collections Websites box in the middle of the page to see more sites with Creative Commons licensed, public domain, and other openly licensed images.
Choose some images and look at the terms of use.
Sites with Creative Commons licensed images:
- Creative Commons Links to an external site.
- Europeana Links to an external site.
- Google Advanced Image Search Links to an external site.- can limit "usage rights" to Creative Commons licenses
- Picryl Links to an external site.
- Wikimedia Commons Links to an external site.
- Smithsonian Open Access Links to an external site.
- Shared Shelf Commons Links to an external site.
- Indianapolis Museum of Art Links to an external site.
- Getty Search Gateway Links to an external site.,
- Met Museum Links to an external site.
- National Gallery of Art | NGA Images, Links to an external site.
- Links to an external site.Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Links to an external site.
- New York Public Library Links to an external site.
- The Public Domain Review Links to an external site.
- NASA Image and Video Library Links to an external site.
La Trappistine by Alphonse Mucha, 1897.
This work is in the US public domain{{PD-US}}:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mucha_-_La_Trappistine.jpg