Resources for Copyright Cleared Images
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Image Quest Access to more than two million images which have all been rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use. The images in this site cover every subject area imaginable and can be used for teacher lesson plans, assignments, activities, and whiteboards; student reports and projects; or school Web sites, newsletters, newspapers, flyers, and bulletins.
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More Freely available images
There are some sources of images which may be used free of charge for educational purposes. These include:
There are some sources of images which may be used free of charge for educational purposes. These include:
- AICT (Art Images for College Teaching): this is a royalty-free image resource for the educational community
- DHD photo gallery: over 13,000 very varied images, clip-art, sounds and video clips (from carbon resister strips to Victoria Falls) which may be used subject to very reasonable terms and conditions
- FreeFoto.com: over 67,000 images in 117 sections, available for non-commercial use subject to FreeFoto terms and conditions
- Flickr hosts a huge and growing library of photographs submitted by individuals. It is possible to search for images with Creative Commons licences allowing educational use.
- FreeImages.co.uk: over 2,500 photographs which may be freely used or adapted for use on web sites or in publications, under FreeImages terms and conditions which include that a credit/link is given to the site
- Pics4Learning: copyright-friendly images for education. The site is aimed at primary and secondary education teachers but the images available are broad in range and applicability.
- Visual Arts Data Service : access to collections of images which may be used for research or teaching purposes but if used for teaching must be restricted so that access is only available to students who have signed an appropriate undertaking – see VADS conditions for use
- Philip’s House of Stock Photography (www.photo.net/stock/): This site provides many free images and also provides links to other free image sites.
- NASA http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html - As with most US government agency web sites, NASA allows the use of NASA imagery, video and audio material (except the NASA insignia logo) for educational or informational purposes provided proper credit is included. The terms of use are set out at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/policies.html. For a full list of US government graphics and photographs available, see http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
- Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection: education images on botany for instructional use
- Earth Science World Imagebank (http://www.earthscienceworld.org/): is a service provided by the American Geological Institute designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community. Most of the images are available free of charge for educational purposes, provided the straightforward terms of use are followed (http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/imageuse.html).
- The Centre for Bioscience ImageBank: thousands of images are available free of charge with copyright cleared for educational use, with due acknowledgement.
- Geology by lightplane – 335 colour aerial images of landforms and geological features (in USA), taken from a small aircraft, free for non-commercial educational use
- Graphic Maps (www.graphicmaps.com) – free images of maps, flags and globes. (The site also contains many maps and images available for a fee, but the free ones are easy to find).
- Health Education Assets Library: a digital library providing freely accessible digital teaching materials aimed to meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
- Microsoft ClipArt Gallery - copyright free images if you have Microsoft Office software legally installed on your computer. This is a searchable gallery of thousands of images.