Open Content Search Search for Open Content

Look for openly licensed content that allows you to adapt and modify the content. This means you should not use content that is free to view but All Rights Reserved nor Creative Commons licenses that contain "ND" or "No Derivatives".

Highlights/Overview

http://open.umich.edu/education/open-michigan/infosheets/materials

http://open.umich.edu/share/use

Mixed Content

http://search.creativecommons.org/

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories

http://open4us.org/find-oer

http://www.spinxpress.com/getmedia

http://www.archive.org

http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/oer-websites Process Arts ALTO list of OER websites

http://open4us.org/find-oer/

Global List of OER Initiatives

Course Materials or Learning Objects

http://open.umich.edu/education/

http://www.oercommons.org/oer - an aggregator of a variety of content types for multiple levels of education, only some of it is CC licensed

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm - an aggregator of a variety of content types for multiple levels of education, only some of it is CC licensed

http://ocwconsortium.org/courses

http://fedsearch.merlot.org/fedsearch/ - a federated search of multiple Learning Object and OER repositories, mixed Open Access and CC licensed content

http://www.ocwsearch.com/

http://ocw.tufts.edu/

http://ocw.mit.edu/

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ Most of this content is CC:BY-NC-SA 2.0

http://www.khanacademy.org (CC BY NC SA)

http://www.softchalkconnect.com/ CCBY

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ CC:BY-NC-SA 2.0

http://academicearth.org - only some is CC licensed

http://cnx.org/- all content is CC:BY 3.0

Books

http://www.lib.umich.edu/espresso-book-machine/reprints?title=&author=&date=&isbn=&series=&order=title - Espresso Book Machine Local Catalog

Connexions http://www.cnx.org/

http://cnx.org/content/m15767/latest/

http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

http://www.studentpirgs.org/open-textbooks/catalog/

http://openstaxcollege.org/

http://oer.avu.org/

OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/

Saylor.org http://www.saylor.org/books/

http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Book:Lists/Subjects

http://www.intratext.com CC-licensed texts and corpora

http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/hierarchy.do?topic=d37c6ed5-3822-84a6-721c-6d9033a88541&page=1

Scholarly Articles and Papers

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu - Deep Blue, University of Michigan's institutional repository

http://www.doaj.org - Directory of Open Access Journals

http://roar.eprints.org/ - Registry of Open Access Repositories

BioMedCentral.com - large collection of peer reviewed, open access journals for health sciences

Images

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ (great for everyday photos)

http://www.flickr.com/commons (collection of publicly-held photography collections)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/ (images and video from Wikipedia)

http://compfight.com/ (a great search interface for the flickr CC image collection)

http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ (another front-end for finding CC-licensed content on flickr)

http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search (use the "Usage Rights" pull down list to search for open content on Google Images)

http://pixabay.com/

http://creativity103.com (useful for finding patterns and backgrounds)

http://www.geograph.org.uk (photos specifically of Britain and Ireland)

http://images.wellcome.ac.uk (creative commons licensed images, mainly science-related)

http://xkcd.com/ (Comics, CC BY NC)

http://abstrusegoose.com/(Comics, CC BY NC)

http://unsplash.com/ (CC 0)
>

Clipart/icons

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

http://www.clker.com/

http://openclipart.org/

http://thenounproject.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/

http://dryicons.com

http://www.opengraphicdesign.com/(CC BY)

Audio/Music

http://ccmixter.org/

http://jamendo.com/

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Audio

http://www.freesound.org/

http://freemusicarchive.org/(select the "modify, adapt and build-upon" checkbox)

http://www.musopen.com/

http://www.librivox.org - public domain audio books

Video

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Video

http://open4us.org/find-oer/#VideoSearch

Medical

https://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/mediabank/ University of Michigan Health System image collection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_and_subjects_in_Gray%27s_Anatomy (use this to substitute out Netter's images)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_illustrations_by_Patrick_Lynch Anatomy drawings of the Heart, Lungs, Thorax, Head, and Neck (under Creative Commons Attribution license)

http://www.plosone.org All articles, and associated content (eg: images) are CC:BY (unless otherwise noted).

Health IT Workforce Curriculum, CC BY NC SA, 20 course curriculum, http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewPortfolio.htm?id=842513

www.youtube.com/user/WorldMedicalSchool - CC BY videos

http://ocw.tufts.edu/Schools/1

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ (OCW collection from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/imageLibrary/ (image library from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

http://wikipremed.com/image_archive.php (allows you to search for images by category: genetics, repro, endocrinology, etc)

http://mwdl.org/collections/1282.php Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ (National Library of Medicine - good encyclopedia)

http://phil.cdc.gov/ (great for public health and population-type images/graphs/charts)

http://www.bartleby.com/107/ (Gray's Anatomy - 1918)

http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm

http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=search/index.html (great images of protein structures, folds - all public domain)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez (another NIH site for protein structures, nucleotide and protein sequences, etc)

http://lane.stanford.edu/biomed-resources/bassett/index.html (anatomy image database)

http://www.open-ecg-project.org Most content is CC:BY-SA

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ Most of this content is CC:BY-NC-SA 2.0

http://www.trauma.org/ - uses a modified CC BY NC SA license (CC+)

http://vhp.med.umich.edu/links.html (Visible Human Project)

http://link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm (Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)

http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ (National Cancer Institute - VisualsOnline) Public Domain images

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/pictures.html (Hardin MD - Medical Pictures / Disease Pictures)

http://goldminer.arrs.org/ (ARRS Goldminer) Radiological images published in selected, peer-reviewed journals

http://www.healcentral.org/ (Heal IAMSE's digital library) Free, openly licensed digital materials

http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu/imagefinder/page.svc?page=Home (Yale Image Finder) Open Access material from PubMed Central

https://oli.web.cmu.edu/jcourse/lms/students/syllabus.do?section=ad7570f980020c6900098a91a5d18b8e

http://portal.campusvirtualsp.org/virtualcampus/drupal/

http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/

http://www.softchalkconnect.com/search?query=Keywords&submit_changes=&subject_Health+Sciences=on&content_type_Learning+Objects=on&content_type_Quiz+Groups=on&content_type_Lessons=on&content_type_Courses=on

http://healthsciences.merlot.org/

http://www.sharinginhealth.org/

http://ourmed.org/

http://www.publichealthinafrica.org/

http://www.ajhpe.org.za/index.php/ajhpe

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mimcom/mimcomhomepage.html

http://data.worldbank.org/

http://www.biomedcentral.com/gateways/globalhealth

http://oerc.merlot.org/index.html - OER for Cancer

http://www8.open.ac.uk/africa/heat/ - Open University UK Health Education And Training in Africa (CC BY NC SA)

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/vgec/education/post18

http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer/oers/psychology

http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/projectpartners_AllResources.aspx

http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk

http://core.arhp.org/ CC BY, unless otherwise noted

http://www.khanacademy.org/science/healthcare-and-medicine (CC BY NC SA)

http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/medicine (various CC)

http://www.yale.edu/imaging/ (CC BY)

AnaQuest - CDC http://anatquest.nlm.nih.gov/ (public domain)

The Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library http://novel.utah.edu/ (CC BY NC ND)

WikiPremed MCAT Course http://www.wikipremed.com/ (CC BY SA)

http://www.youtube.com/user/VicGovHealth?feature=watch (CC BY)

http://www.youtube.com/user/NIHClinicalCenter?feature=watch (CC BY)

http://www.youtube.com/user/ircwater/videos (CC BY)

http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldMedicalSchool (CC by)

http://www.youtube.com/user/sgulcso (CC BY NC ND)

http://www.youtube.com/user/PhysicianHealthBC/videos?view=0&sort=dd&flow=list&live_view=500 (CC BY)

http://www.youtube.com/user/MSF (CC BY)

http://www.pueblocc.edu/CommunityOutreach/CHEO - Pueblo Community College, The CHEO Project-Consortium for Healthcare Education Online, (CC BY)

Biology

http://www.saylor.org/majors/biology/

http://species.wikimedia.org - Text CC:BY-SA, Images either BY-SA, BY, GFDL, or Public Domain

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html CAUTION: Check each image, they vary from CC:BY to All Rights Reserved

http://www.eol.org/ CC:BY, BY-SA, BY-NC, BY-NC-SA

http://www.plosbiology.org/ All CC:BY unless otherwise noted.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

Physical Sciences

http://wikipremed.com/image_archive.php

Engineering

OER for Engineering and Agriculture - EHELD

Software

http://sourceforge.net

http://github.com/

Images that Illustrate the Concept of Open Content

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/with/3156792001/

http://wikieducator.org/File:Recyclethis-185807557.jpg

Print-on-Demand Services

Espresso Book Machine http://www.lib.umich.edu/espresso-book-machine

Blurb

Lulu

Maternal and Child Health Resources

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/nursing/midwifery

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/med/ob-gyn/

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/med/paediatrics

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/public-health/maternal/ (CC BY NC ND)

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/public-health/child/ (CC BY NC ND)

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m1/endo-repro/winter2008

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m1/embryology/winter2009

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m1/humangrowth/winter2009

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m2/endocrine/winter2009

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/m2/repro/2010

http://www8.open.ac.uk/africa/heat/heat-resources (CC BY NC SA)

http://globalhealthmedia.org/newborn/videos/ (CC BY NC ND)

http://www.glowm.com (some are free to access but all rights reserved; others have a custom license for noncommercial use)

http://www.global-help.org/publications/books/book_pedsurgeryafrica.html (free to access but all rights reserved)

http://core.arhp.org/ (CC BY, unless otherwise noted)

http://www.arhp.org/Publications-and-Resources/ (CC BY NC ND, unless otherwise noted)

http://www.reproductive-health-journal.com/ (CC BY)

http://www.human-resources-health.com/ (cc by)

http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9617 (CC BY)

http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/ (All rights reserved but free to access)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books (All are free to access. Most are all rights reserved but some are Creative Commons licensed)

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

Free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.

Creative Commons

About the Creative Commons Licenses

Quick Guide to Using Creative Commons Images

Creative Commons License chooser

Creative Commons image search engines

Creative Commons SearchSearches several sources of Creative Commons media, including Flickr, Google, Yahoo, and Wikimedia Commons.

Flickr Creative Commons "Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

Luna Commons Hundreds of thousands of images made available form reputable sources for educational and public use.

Shared Shelf Commons A growing collection of high resolution images from libraries, archives, and museums around the world. Images in Shared Shelf are made publicly accessible free of charge however, content may be protected by copyright or other restrictions.
Wikimedia CommonsWikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips).

Infographics you can reuse

Statista
A statistics portal that integrates data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources into eye-catching charts and graphs that can be reused without licensing restrictions. All of Statista's charts are made available under the Creative Commons License CC BY-ND 3.0.

Open Content

Although material may be copyrighted, more and more institutions are making their image collections freely available online. See:

Getty Research Institute Open Content Images(Link may not work in Internet Explorer; try another Browser such as Firefox)
A Guide to the Web's Growing Set of Free Image CollectionsA guide to museums and research institutions that have large, high-quality, free-to-use collection of historically or aesthetically notable images online
Metropolitan Museum’s Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC)

High-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s collection.

Wellcome Images Includes high resolution images drawn from the historical holdings of the Wellcome Library, released under the Creative Commons-Attribution only (CC-BY) license.

Public Domain Image Sources

Also consider using imagesgoverned byCreative Commons or perhaps royalty-free images from Stock Image sources (see the selected list on the Online Image Collections tab).

The British Library Flickr Commons Photostream

Finding and Using Public Domain Images

Internet Archive Book Images
Library of Congress Public Domain images

National Archives (NARA) Public Domain Images

Public Domain Images from Government Sources

Wikipedia Public Domain Image Resources

UC Open Access Policy

Open Access Images

Images from sources on this page are available for use on the open web. You are free to use these images in multimedia projects, websites, blogs, portfolios, etc, that are open and available to the public. When you use these images, you do not need to restrict access to your class or academic environment.

Always read and comply with the use restrictions for specific image sources. Always cite images someone else created.

Images should not be sold or used in commercial products or for commercial purposes.

Flickr Creative Commons

Flickr contains millions of photographs shared by Flickr users under Creative Commons licenses, and is a strong source for contemporary travel, nature, people, and design photographs.

Several overlays to Flickr offer enhanced search functionality and additional features.

Flickr Creative Commons Flickr's Creative Commons portal. Browse by license type or choose "Advanced Search" to limit to Creative Commons content.

Behold Visual search of Flickr photographs. Uses computer vision to recognize visual content, rather than relying on text tags. Limit to "free to use" or "free to modify."

Compfight Enhanced search of Flickr content. Limit to Creative Commons.

FlickrStorm Search overlay to Flickr. Retrieves more images by using related tags. Select "Advanced" to limit to Creative Commons content.

Wylio Searches only Creative Commons content in Flickr. Additional tools for blogs and websites, including resizing tool, photo credit builder, and code generator.

Open Access Photographs & Historical Images

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs OnlineImages from the Library of Congress, now in the public domain.

Wikimedia Commons Historical and contemporary images contributed by participants. Millions of high-resolution images of art, architecture, design, people, historical events, diagrams, maps, and more.

World ImagesPrimarily historical images organized into 18 categories, including Women, Science, Cities, Natural World, Science, and more.

Open Access Clip Art

Open Clip Art Library Public domain contemporary graphics contributed by users.

Open Icon Library Open collection of icons.

Wikimedia Commons - Crystal Clear Icons Icon collection in the Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons - Tango Icons Icon collection in the Wikimedia Commons.

Websites with Free Images

These sites offer at least some images for free general use. These sites also contain advertising and/or offer images for sale.

Read each site's conditions for use carefully. Different images from the same site may have different use restrictions, too. Make sure you know what they are.

Free Stock PhotosOver 10,000 images, browsable by category. Lots of clip art and clear photographs.
morgueFileSearch image tags or browse by category. MorgueFile license clearly explained. Affiliated with dreamstime stock photo.
stock.xchngStock photography contributed by members. Owned by Getty Images & affiliated wtih iStockphoto.

Metasearch Sites

These sites search multiple other sites for Creative Commons-licensed images. These sites may have ads or offer fee-based services as well.

evertstockphotoIncludes photos from flickr, Wikimedia Commons, morgueFile, and more, with links to original locations. Advanced search allows you to search only the sites you specify.

Finding OER!

Explore the list of links provided to search for materials under a collection of open resources online. This is aimed at providing a guide to find the best OER suitable for you under any course subject, or types of OER such as videos, images, presentations, course books, journals, etc. - [part of the content has adapted from "Finding Open Content handout", courtesy of open.michigan under CC license: CC-BY]

Whether for teaching, learning or research, you can view and download open content materials from a vast collection of resources.

Open Educational Resources (OER)

https://open.umich.edu/education/

http://www.oercommons.org/oer

http://www.merlot.org/

http://ocw.mit.edu/

Health Sciences Content

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_and_subjects_in_Gray’s_Anatomy

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Patrick_Lynch

http://www.healcentral.org/healapp/browse

http://ocw.tufts.edu/Schools/1

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

http://phil.cdc.gov/

http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm

http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/

http://pubmed.gov/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

http://lane.stanford.edu/biomed-resources/bassett/index.html

Images

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Image

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ (finds CC licensed images)

http://www.flickr.com/commons/ (finds public domain images)

http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search

Audio/Video

• http://ccmixter.org/
http://jamendo.com/

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Audio

http://www.freesound.org/

http://freemusicarchive.org/

http://www.musopen.com/

http://soundbible.com/

Mixed Content

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories

http://search.creativecommons.org/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

http://spinxpress.com/getmedia

http://www.archive.org/

Textbooks

http://www.cnx.org/

http://www.opentextbook.org/

http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

http://www.studentpirgs.org/open-textbooks/catalog/

ClipArts/Icons

http://www.clker.com/

http://openclipart.org/

http://thenounproject.com/

..............................................................................................................................

Find more from Open.Michigan wiki

Open Content Search

.....................................................................................................................................................................

Find more from OER Africa

Finding OER

..............................................................................................................................

Other Repositories
OER Repositories Search