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CC Attribution Best Practices

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Resources for Finding Open Images

Openverse Openverse is a tool that allows users to search over 500 million images that are freely available to be freely used and adapted.
Wikimedia Commons Free access to images, sound, and video files in the public domain or with Creative Commons licenses.
The British Library Flickr Photo Stream Scanned from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books, the collection (hosted on Flickr) is spectacular for any designer looking for a vintage flourish. Look for curated images of everything from typography and decorative paper to instruments and animals. All images are within the public domain.
Library of Congress: Prints & Photgraphs Online Catalog Historical photographs from the Library of Congress. Search by keyword or browse by collection.
Old Book Illustrations A really nice collection of public domain illustrations scanned from old books and vector illustrations that can be modified and distributed for both personal and commercial projects.
U.S. National Archives Photostream Documents and Photographs digitized and uploaded to Flickr.
Getty Public Domain Content
Collection of open access images from the Getty Museum
And more! Check out this list of even more sites with public domain images. Be sure to investigate the terms on each image before you use it.

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Found an image you liked, forgot to cite it, and can't find it again? Try a reverse image search! As long as you have the image, reverse image searches can help you track down creators so that you can properly attribute them.

Google Images Reverse Image Search Reverse Image Search.
Tineye Reverse image search

Open Educational Resources: Finding Open Images

CC & Attribution

Resources for Finding Open Images

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