| Source |
LMS? |
Public site? |
What is it? |
Special Considerations
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| Europeana |
Varies |
Varies |
- An enormous treasure trove of historical digital resources from museums, galleries, and archives throughout Europe. Photos, artworks, drawings, objects, documents, and films. |
- Many images are in the public domain or have permissive licenses, but check individual images for terms of use (some are not openly licensed). The advanced search tool allows users to filter by images that can be freely and openly used or by specific license.
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| Flickr Commons |
Yes |
Yes |
- Public domain photography collections supplied by many libraries, galleries, and museums from around the world. |
- Images are all in the public domain, and have no known copyright restrictions.
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| French Revolution Digital Archive |
Yes |
Varies |
-The Images of the French Revolution resource is composed of about 14000 images of items such as prints, illustrations, medals, coins, and other objects. |
- Free of charge for non-commercial use, please contact utilisation.commerciale@bnf.fr for commercial uses.
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| Getty Open Content Program |
Yes |
No |
- The Getty has made 4,600 high-resolution images of their museum collection free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose. Includes paintings, manuscripts, photographs, sculpture, etc. |
- From the Search Gateway, select the link for “Open Content Images”, which allows for images available for reuse. Images should be attributed with the statement “Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program”.
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| Images Canada |
Yes |
No |
- A centralized database of digitized historical images from cultural institutions across Canada. |
- Citation must be formatted as follows: Copyright symbol, ©, Name of partner institution ("Source" on image page), Image ID number, and the statement: "Reproduced with permission from the [partner's name] website (partner's website address)”.
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| Internet Archive Book Images |
Yes |
Yes |
- Millions of historical images from books scanned by the Internet Archive are available and searchable via tags on Flickr. The pictures date from 1500 to 1922 and include historical photos and drawings. |
- Images are all in the public domain, and have no known copyright restrictions.
|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Online |
Yes |
Yes |
- As part of its Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) initiative, the Met now provides access to 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in its collection. Works covered by the policy are identified on the Museum’s website with the acronym OASC and can be used freely and without permission for non-commercial use, including scholarly/educational uses in any media. Includes iconic paintings, photographs, etchings, sculpture, etc. |
Image citations must include the creator and source and the URL "www.metmuseum.org." The website's terms and conditions stipulate that images should not be modified and cannot be used for commercial purposes.
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| Museum of New Zealand Collections Online |
Yes |
Yes |
- The museum, also called Te Papa Tongarewa, has made 30,000 high-resolution images from their collection available for download and reuse under a CC BY-NC-ND licence. |
- At the Search Gateway, select the button for “with downloadable images”, which allows for images available for reuse. Select the image, then select the “download” button beneath the image. The attribution statement will be provided on the download page.
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| New Old Stock |
Yes |
Yes |
Cole Townsend curates this collection of vintage photos from public archives. The images are free of known copyright restrictions. |
Clicking on the link under each image will take you to its original post on Flickr, where you can get more information about the image. See Flickr's statement about public photo archives in the Flickr Commons, which have indicated "no known copyright restrictions."
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| Open Glam Open Collections |
Yes |
Varies |
- OpenGLAM (Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) curates an extensive list of Open Collections from several cultural institutions. |
- See licensing information from individual institutions for applicable terms of reuse.
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| the Smithsonian Institute |
Yes |
Yes |
- More than 40,000 works being made available for high-resolution download—expanding regularly with new acquisitions |
Images can be used for all non-commercial purposes.
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| Trove--National Library of Australia |
Varies |
Varies |
Close to 400,000,000 digital resources including many images, primarily from Australia. Also includes books, maps, music, historic newspapers. |
- Limit your search to "freely available" content using the advanced search. See each resource for specific licensing information.
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