Open Access

Discover over a million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries.

A database of images, texts, videos, and sounds from libraries, universities, and museums, with some material holding creative commons licenses or material that is in the public domain.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

The NYPL Digital Collections is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

A large collection of images and audio. All content on Openverse is under a Creative Commons license or is in the public domain.

This is a collection of Smithsonian’s images that are free to download, share, and reuse.

Wikimedia Commons provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts that are useful for any Wikimedia project.