# Open educational resources

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- [Introduction](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/introduction "This guide has been developed by UNSW Library to provide unmediated support for finding resources suitable to use for open online courses. ")
- [Search tools](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/search-tools "This page highlights key directories that you can search for open access academic material.")
- [Collections & repositories](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/collections "Examples of multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections of open online course resources.")
- [Images & illustrations](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/images "Find open source images for use in online courses and to support student learning. ")
- [Music & sound effects](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/music "Find open source music and sound effects for use in online courses and to support student learning.")
- [Videos & simulations](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/video "Find open source videos and simulations for use in online courses and to support student learning. ")
- [Books & journals](https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-educational-resources/journals "Find open source books and journal articles for use in online courses and to support student learning. ")

Find open source images for online teaching and learning support. Always consult the terms of use of specific resources for your purposes.

You can explore the menu for other types of open resources.

- [General](#s-lib-ctab-23076526-0)
- [Visual arts](#s-lib-ctab-23076526-1)
- [Medicine](#s-lib-ctab-23076526-2)

- [Flickr : Explore / Creative Commons](https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/)

  Browse and search images by their Creative Commons licence, or that are in the public domain.
- [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/)

  Access to thousands of high quality images and videos. Content is released under Creative Commons [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). See [Terms](https://pixabay.com/en/service/terms/) for further information.
- [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)

  Contains public domain and freely-licensed educational media including images, sound and video. All content can be copied, used and modified provided individual author terms are followed. See individual items for licence terms and permissions.
- [World Bank Photo collection](https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/)

  A collection of images that illustrate development through topics such as agriculture, education, environment, health, trade and more. Check each image for licensing.
- [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/)

  Free ( [do whatever you want](https://unsplash.com/license) ) high-resolution photos built by industry-leading photographers. The Unsplash image library hosts thousands of photos that have been collated into collections covering a wide variety of subject areas.
- [Creative Commons Search](https://search.creativecommons.org/)

  CC Search provides convenient access to search services from other organisations for resources labelled with CC licences. You must still verify that any resource found using the CC Search is legitimately licensed as CC.

- [The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Public Domain Images](http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection)

  Explore the images of artworks the Museum believes to be in the public domain. Select the "Public Domain Artworks" filter in the left-hand column and look for the CC 0 icon under the image. For further information, please read The Met's [Open Access Policy](http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources).
- [VADS: The Visual Arts Data Service](https://www.vads.ac.uk/)

  Over 100,000 searchable images free for use in art education. Includes design archives such as the Design Council and London College of Fashion.

- [Open-i](https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/)

  A biomedical image search engine that searches images from PubMed Central articles as well as several special image collections. It allows for substantial search customization via filters (specialties, image type, license type, etc.)
- [History of Medicine](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/index.html)

  Images from the National Library of Medicine’s prints and photographs collection. Terms of use vary - see information under 'Copyright Statement' in the record for individual items for details. See also [Patron Guide to Copyright and Historical Materials](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/copyright/) page for further information.

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