MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free, publicly accessible, openly-licensed digital collection of high-quality teaching and learning materials, presented in an easily accessible format. Browse through, download and use materials from more than 2,500 MIT on-campus courses and supplemental resources, all available under a Creative Commons license for open sharing.
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Databases of Images (Licensing May Vary)
These databases offer access to thousands of images. Licensing for individual databases and images may vary, always check the licensing and other usage restrictions for the individual resources that you would like to use.
This is a disability-led effort to provide free & inclusive stock images from our own perspective, with photos and illustrations celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC). The Disabled And Here collection is published under Creative Commons attribution licensing [CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International], which means you can use, share, and adapt the images for free with appropriate credit.
Photographs of families, their homes, and how they live around the world. Organized by income, topic, and geography. Images are CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International.
The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models. This library is provided through VICE Media Group. The images are licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Photo library of women’s activities from around the world. The images show the connection between women’s work, their health, and ability to care for themselves and their families. Available free to use to non-commercial users, Creative Commons licensing (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
This page features items from the Library of Congress' (LOC) digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The LOC 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.
A library of Creative Commons Zero (CC0) images of Black and Brown people made available by SHADE (an influencer managegment agency for Black and Brown creators). Users are encouraged to download photos, modify them, share them, distribute them, or use them for whatever they want for free.
Hundreds of thousands of images from the NYPL collections. The materials are labeled with statements that indicate how you may reuse items, and what sort of permission, if any, you need to do so.
Here you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. You have access to over 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Over 2 million free, high-resolution images. Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash.
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