Openly Licensed Image Sources
- Creative Commons Image Search
- Wikimedia Commons: Images, Diagrams, Illustrations, Photos, videos, sounds, and more. All are openly licensed but have different individual licenses.
- Flickr: A variety of images. Licenses vary and may be copyrighted.
- The ASCCC OERI Flickr page houses images created through our proposals
Public Domain Image Sources
- US Government: Most are Public Domain. Check individual images to be sure.
- Negative Space: CCO licensed images
Diversity and Inclusion
- Nappy: Free high-resolution photos of black and brown people, licensed Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
- PICNOI: Free photos of people of color; no attribution required, but can give credit by linking to site
- #WOCinTech Chat: Free photos of women and non-binary people of color working in the Tech field; licensed CC BY
- CreateHer Stock: Free and for fee stock photos of women of color; license varies
- Redefining Women Icon Collection: Icons of women; License: Creative Commons Public Domain CC0 1.0
- The Gender Spectrum Collection: Free stock photos of trans and non-binary people, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- AllGo Plus Size: Free Plus-Size Stock Photos. Office, swim, and home collections. Attribution not required, please give credit.
- Disabled And Here: This collection is a disability-led effort to provide free and inclusive stock photos shot from our own perspective, featuring disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) across the Pacific Northwest. CC-BY 4.0
- Images of Empowerment: A free library of images celebrating women’s lives and their work in 11 countries around the world. CC-BY-NC 4.0
- The Noun Project – Photos: “Professionally curated, art-quality photos that celebrate diversity.” CC BY NC ND
- American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action: “A free library of images celebrating student learning and teacher collaboration in seven schools across the United States.” (CC BY-NC 4.0)
- Open Peeps: “A hand-drawn illustration library.” Mix and match elements to create different “peeps.” Please note that you might need a design program to create your own “peeps.” There are pre-made “peeps” you can download without a program. CC0
- Age-positive: “positive and realistic images of over 50s in a bid to challenge negative and stereotypical views of older age.”
- Human Development Institute: The vision of the UK Human Development Institute is the full participation and contribution of all people with disabilities in all aspects of society. These photos can be downloaded and used to create and enhance visual and digital products, social media posts, and project websites.
Freely-usable but not CC licensed
Check the individual sites for specific information on the licenses.
- Pixabay: Free stock photos, vectors and art illustrations
- Unsplash: Freely-usable images
- Shotstash: Free stock photos
- StockSnap: Free stock photos
- Gratisography: Images without copyright restrictions
Art Images
- The Greats: Free illustrations from great artists to change the world
Science Images
- Histology Atlas
- Scienceimage – Scienceimage is an image library specialising in science and nature images. It is presented by CSIRO, Australia’s major science research organisation. All images are free to download under a Creative Commons license.
- Servier Medical Art – 3000 free medical images to illustrate your publications and Powerpoint presentations. Servier Medical Art by Servier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
- Clinical Anatomy – Anatomy Videos
- Nanotomy – Large-scale electron microscopy (EM) datasets
- Center for Research in Biological Systems – Cell image library built by an NIH grant.
- Biomedical Imaging
- Virtual Microscopy Database (VMD) a free database for histological and pathological virtual image files.
- Open resources (images, videos, and atlas) on neuroanatomy and clinical anatomy
- CDC Public Health Image Library (“PHIL”) – The imagery showcased in the PHIL is historic in nature; the contents depicted, though appropriate at the time a photograph was captured, may no longer be appropriate in the context of the current time period, and is not to be viewed as a source of the most current public health information.
- Biomedical search engine. cc-by-nc-sa
- National Institute of General Med. cc-by-nc-sa
- Genetics NIH public domain. cc-by-nc-sa
- More from NIH. cc-by-nc-sa
- MedPix.
- Biomedical Image Search. color coded usage rights
- Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals
- Cell Image Library
- Anatomy Tool – has images, videos, dissections and more. All are CC, not all allow derivatives
- BlueLink @ University of Michigan – images, cadavers
- Digital Histology – human histology
- Histology at the University of Michigan – human histology
- Anatomy Standard – human skeleton
- WikiJournal of Medicine – Bruce Blaus – anatomy and medical imagery
- Scientific Animations – has wiki images of anatomy, some medical/disease images